December 02, 2014
Payments Isn’t A Cost, It’s A Revenue Generator
Finance says payments is a cost and needs to come down. Marketing says it’s the biggest way to drive revenue. And, Digital River’s Group VP of Payments, Eric Christensen says...
December 01, 2014
What Do The God Particle, Yodeling and Knights Have To...
“Vague but exciting.” These three words could be used to describe just about any early-stage idea when it’s first presented. I’ll bet every investor or strategic partner has had the...
December 01, 2014
The Real Reason Taxi Companies Hate Uber
The convenience of paying for an Uber comes at a cost for taxi companies in major cities. A New York Times article took a look into the pressure that taxi...
November 18, 2014
Mass Payments And The Global Marketplace
Managing the “dozens of ACH islands” that exist around the worldwide in order to pay hundreds or even thousands of payments to suppliers is typically time consuming and expensive. But...
November 17, 2014
The Sure Fire Merchant Interchange Fee Fix
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the internet was on fire last week, and nearly broke. Yes, there was that Kim Kardashian Paper magazine cover that apparently got a...
October 31, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 47 | Bitcoin Haunted By The...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. A mixed bag for bitcoin this week. First, FinCEN said that all virtual currency payment systems and trading platforms are money transmitters and...
October 30, 2014
Transforming Payments from Cost Centers to Revenue Drivers
Corporate payments programs have often been regarded as costly and tedious, but new insights from recent data to be presented at Money 20/20 show otherwise, according to Digital River. On...
October 13, 2014
Navigating Fleet Rewards Cards
Always looking to save a buck here and there, fleet operators and their drivers have a wide variety of rewards cards from which to choose, ranging from parts stores to...
September 29, 2014
The Fed Wants To Clean Up Token Confusion
The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta applaud the many efforts to standardize payment tokenization, except the part that there are in fact so many such efforts. The potential...