June 01, 2015
Xero Inks Swedish Deal For Mobile Payments
Digital payments service provider Xero has been busy in recent months. Just weeks ago the New Zealand-based company announced a partnership with B2B mobile sales servicer Pepperi to integrate Xero’s cloud...
June 01, 2015
How Retale Is Making Something Old New Again
The “year of mobile” in commerce and payments has been coming/happening/about to ignite for as long as PYMNTS has been in virtual print. And while it would be ridiculous to...
June 01, 2015
Why PayPal Leads With Payments
In what is likely one of the more dramatic statements written in history about a software development conference, USA Today reported last week that Google’s I/O developers’ conference was the...
June 01, 2015
Why Android Pay Isn’t Really About Payments At All
To no one’s great surprise, we added another “Pay” player to payments last week. Android Pay threw its hat into the mobile payments ring as the “other” operating systems-based payments...
June 01, 2015
Target Will Soon Take A Bite At The Apple (Pay)
Another big MCX merchant could soon embrace Apple Pay. Last week, Target CEO Brian Cornell dropped a big hint that the retailer was open to accepting Apple Pay — indicating that...
June 01, 2015
Google Wants To Make Payments Hands Free
Google just trumped its own soon-to-launch mobile payments app, Android Pay. Just as quickly as Google rolled out the news about Android Pay last week (May 27), it revealed that...
June 01, 2015
Meet Stream – Amazon’s Answer To Pinterest
It seems team Amazon has decided to offer Pinterest some of the sincerest form of flattery, since its new service Stream builds on the “pin it” experience to offer Web...
June 01, 2015
The Lifeline to Financial Inclusion
More than 2 billion people globally lack access to traditional financial services. PYMNTS collaborated with Mozido to create the PYMNTS Financial Inclusion Tracker, which dives deeply into the root...
May 30, 2015
Cybercrime 2.0: The Battle Of The Specialists
“Are the cybercriminals getting smarter? Are they really that much smarter than we are?” That was MPD CEO Karen Webster’s question for PayPal’s VP of Consumer Risk Mike Vergara during...
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.
