June 19, 2012
Talk Is Cheap: Redefining Innovation in Payments
We are about two weeks away from opening the voting on the 2012 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards. The field that we have sent to the judges is nothing short of awesome....
June 13, 2012
HSBC Merchant Services Launches Mobile Card Reader
HSBC Merchant Services — now a subsidiary of Global Payments — partnered with eMerit Solutions Limited to develop a new mobile payment acceptance reader for pairing with smartphone devices, Finextra...
June 11, 2012
Visa Gives Retailers Direction on Mobile Adoption, Says NRF’s Mader
When Richard Mader told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he thought mobile wallets would soon become “a heck of a convenience” for consumers, we at PYMNTS.com immediately wondered what he thought about...
June 10, 2012
Major Spanish Bank Prepares Mass Rollout of Contactless EMV Cards
La Caixa, a Spanish bank with more than 10 million customers, is preparing a large-scale rollout of new Opetlio contactless EMV payment cards through a partnership with Gemalto, Mobile Payments...
May 31, 2012
How Did Jersey Mike’s Get 282,000 Loyalty Signups? We Ask...
A sandwich franchise with 542 U.S. stores has gotten 282,000 customers to signup for its loyalty program since its launch in early May. Of that group, 40,000 users are accruing...
May 31, 2012
Latin America Mobile Payments Summit 2012
Brought to you by the creators of the highly acclaimed Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations series of events, the Latin America Mobile Payments Summit 2012 in Miami Beach, FL, focuses on the...
May 23, 2012
Data Ltd Debuts Tablet PC Payment Device with NFC, EMV,...
Data Ltd Inc’s new DLI 9000 payment device is a tablet PC with NFC and EMV payment processing capability, NFC World reports. The device also features a PCI-compliant PIN pad....
May 23, 2012
VeriFone Counters U.S. EMV Skeptics
Recently intensified mandates from Visa and MasterCard, combined with multiple successful transitions across the globe, suggest the adoption of EMV will only expand in the future “” and into the...
May 23, 2012
Ingenico Partners With Top U.S. Processor On EMV, NFC Payments
Ingenico is partnering with Vantiv to accelerate EMV acceptance in the United States. Vantiv, which brings in more than $1 billion in annual revenues, will be providing Ingenico’s Telium series...