August 08, 2012
NAPCP Addresses Surcharging Aspect of Card Networks’ Lawsuit Settlement
A Purchasing Card industry poll of card-using organizations reveals concerns over surcharging for electronic payments, but the NAPCP cautions against jumping to conclusions too quickly. Mid-July reports about MasterCard, Visa...
July 24, 2012
Western Union’s Philippines Prepaid Launch Is Heavy On Mobile
In the U.S. and abroad, payments firms are rolling out new prepaid solutions in an attempt to deliver financial services to consumers without bank accounts. Here in the states, big...
July 17, 2012
CommBank Launches Its Own Mobile POS Suite
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank launched a full suite of products to help retailers process payments at the point of sale. The suite includes CommBank Albert, an Android-powered tablet device that works...
July 12, 2012
Money Transfer Startup Raises $3M To Disrupt Cross-Border Payments
The Currency Cloud raised $3 million to support development of its cloud-based currency conversion and international payments platform for B2B transfers, TechCrunch reports. Today’s $3 million raise will be added...
July 12, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: July 11-12
Starbucks Adds PayPal to Mobile App on Android, Grows to UK and Canada JCB Opens Its First South American Subsidiary in Brazil Amazon actually testing smartphone in Asia now: Platform...
July 10, 2012
TSYS Plans B2B Boost Through Check Conversion
Those keeping a close eye on the payments industry over the past several months have seen tons of new innovation transform the space. But just because the technology doesn’t mean...
May 17, 2012
Catalyst Course: Blast Off or Bust!
How to ignite a platform, and avoid nosediving back to earth, is the subject of David Evans’s fourth lecture for the Catalyst Course. Drawing on the success of YouTube, the...
May 01, 2012
Google and PayPal portend antitrust harms flowing from Project Oscar
Google and PayPal have warned the European Commission on competition problems posed by a mobile payments joint venture, reports the Financial Times. The joint venture, dubbed Project Oscar, is between...
April 30, 2012
Google, PayPal Blow The Whistle On U.K. Joint Venture
Google and PayPal are among several companies warning European regulators about the consequences of approving the business plan of a joint venture between a trio of Euro-based telecom giants. Vodafone,...
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Real-time payments already account for at least 15% of B2B payments volume in the insurance, manufacturing and retail industries. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 500 executives across the retail, insurance, manufacturing and real estate sectors examines how these industries are using real time payments today and their plans for the future. Read more in “The State of Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration with The Clearing House.