June 03, 2015
French Government Hopes To Speed Up NFC Use
Despite the fact that smartphones and bank cards are NFC-based and that new NFC driven apps are increasingly available, the technology remains rather marginal in France. The infrastructure is there...
June 03, 2015
Dunkin’ Donuts Debuts NCR Platform At Its First Brazil Location
Consumer transaction tech player NCR Corp. said Tuesday (June 2) that its payments platform is being used by Dunkin’ Donuts at its first Brazil location, according to a company release....
June 03, 2015
Samsung Exec Not Threatened By Android Pay
The mobile payments space is big enough for both Google and Samsung, according to the latter company’s president/chief strategy officer. Samsung’s Young Sohn told Re/code in remarks published Tuesday (June 2), and...
June 03, 2015
Intuit Launches QuickBooks Mobile EMV Card Reader
Ahead of the October 2015 transition to the EMV liability standards, Intuit is offering the QuickBooks Mobile EMV Card reader, currently available to small businesses via pre-order. Intuit said Tuesday...
June 03, 2015
Twelve Reasons Why Wearables Are Now
“Consumers are hungry for a connection.” And as the many technology innovations across the payments and commerce space have shown, that connection is no longer necessarily through other human beings....
June 03, 2015
Nine Execs On How To Build A Better Social Commerce...
From the launch of Domino’s “tweet-a-pizza” ordering system to Facebook’s “Messenger for Business” platform to the brand spanking new Buy Button on Pinterest, the influence of social commerce on commerce has...
June 02, 2015
Why Series A Funding Could Be Crushing B2B Startups
It’s a difficult truth. Even after successful seed rounds, most startups won’t receive the next round of funding needed to keep the business alive. According to research firm CB Insights,...
June 02, 2015
HSBC: Mobile Payments Ready To Enter Enterprise Banking
As one of the world’s largest financial institutions, HSBC has recently made efforts to strengthen its position within the corporate banking world. Late last year, the bank’s head of payments...
June 02, 2015
FreshBooks Links Up With Bank Of Montreal SME Customers
As alternative lenders have pressured banks to strengthen their position among small- and medium-sized businesses, mainstream financial institutions are beginning to offer more than just traditional banking services. A new...
Convenience has made digital wallets the fastest-growing payment method in the U.S. and influences users to spend more than nonusers, yet only 57% of small businesses offer digital wallet payments to their customers. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how payment providers can help merchants overcome preconceptions about security, complexity and technology to stay on top of the trend.
