May 28, 2015
Airbnb Enters The B2B SaaS Market
The emergence of mobile, on-demand services like Apple Pay, Uber and Airbnb have largely changed the way their perspective markets do business. But these disruptors have been challenged by regulators...
May 28, 2015
Visa CEO Talks Apple Pay, Union Pay, Visa Europe Potential
Addressing the crowd at the Sanford Bernstein Conference yesterday (May 27), Visa CEO Charlie Scharf shared some insight into the two regions of the world that the payments industry has been focused...
May 28, 2015
European M-Banking Startup Monese Gets Big Backing
Monese, the newest player in the European mobile banking startup, has yet to launch and it’s already getting the backing of some big names. Most recently, it secured $1.8 million...
May 28, 2015
Amazon’s Secret Weapon – Smart Politics And Smart Business
Last week, Re/code broke the news that 15-year Amazon company vet Maria Renz will be ascending to the role of technical advisor to the CEO – known more informally inhouse as...
May 28, 2015
Square Eases Inventory Pains for SMBs With Shopventory Deal
Shopventory announced its inventory management solutions are being integrated with Square’s payments and POS system to help take the hassle out of inventory management for SMBs. The relationship between the two...
May 28, 2015
Facebook Rolls Out Pay-Your-Friend Messenger App to New York
Facebook is adding New York and the surrounding metro area to its list of U.S. cities in which users are able to send or receive money between friends via Messenger,...
May 28, 2015
The Buffet Of Mobile Dining Payment Startups
“Reinventing hospitality” As we’ve learned in the payments industry, this also means reinventing the way people pay. The catchphrase above comes from the startup MyCheck — one of many that...
May 28, 2015
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends: Mobile On The March and OnDemand...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers longtime Internet analyst Mary Meeker dropped her annual trends report on the Code Conference here today. Meeker, as per usual in the 20 years she has...
May 28, 2015
Skipping Out on the EMV Deadline
With the deadline for the EMV liability shift mandate looming ever closer, the simple fact is that a majority of U.S. merchants aren’t going to meet it. Whether that’s unintentional...
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.
