April 23, 2012
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
April 22, 2012
“Fourteen Points” for Payments: EC Sets eCommerce Rules
A new report issued by the European Central Bank offers 14 recommendations to improve the security of internet payments, applicable to all payment service providers (PSPs) doing business within the...
April 22, 2012
Should The Fed Be Involved in Retail Payments?
Early on in her remarks to open last month’s conference event, “Consumer Payment Innovation in the Connected Age,” Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George acknowledged that disagreement...
April 19, 2012
Yahoo CEO Thompson: We Will Increase Focus On eCommerce
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson wants to improve his company’s ability to serve consumers and merchants as an e-commerce platform, Internet Retailer reports. “Our goal is to use the data, the...
April 03, 2012
Google Wallet Buys TxVia, As Another Engineer Leaves
On the same day that Google Wallet announced the acquisition of TxVia, a mobile payment platform, another of its engineers has left the company. Rob von Behren, one of the...
April 02, 2012
Guest Commentary
PYMNTS.com features diverse content from a variety of different contributors. • Time To Deal With All These Deals (Richard Postrel, CEO and Founder of Swift Exchange) •...
March 29, 2012
Friday Five: What Will Keep David Marcus Up at Night?
Amazing news out of eBay today with the appointment of David Marcus as the new President of PayPal. As most anyone who has been living on Planet Earth for the...
March 28, 2012
MasterCard Injects Real-Time Fraud Tool with More Data
Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for Merchants from MasterCard is the online merchants newest weapon in fighting fraud. The name may be a mouthful, but the technology is cutting edge: detection...
March 27, 2012
Why Care about Mobile Commerce?
The Tipping Point in Here Mobile commerce has finally reached a tipping point. But what got us here wasn’t a silver bullet mobile payments technology, whizzy new app or “aha”...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Nearly half of consumers in Mexico shop in-store without using digital shopping features — but merchants hear their customers’ cries for a better experience and are planning to add many. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 33-page report, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, features eight charts that provide a blueprint for merchants in Mexico to increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.