March 19, 2014
Pangea Builds Global Money Transfer Platform
Pangea Payments enables international cash-to-cash transfers, providing a platform that is convenient and easy to use for consumers. Pangea Founder and CEO Rahier Rahman spoke with Market Platform Dynamics CEO...
March 10, 2014
Bricks And Mortar Chains Reacting To Online Movement
05 March 2014 With more consumers now shopping online instead of in retail stores, operators of brick-and mortar locations are turning their attention to ways in which they can better...
March 04, 2014
US: Online real estate site acquired by CoStar
Real estate services group CoStar has reportedly inked a deal to acquire Apartments.com in a $585 million transaction. The website, a unit of Classified Ventures, provides national retail listings and...
February 04, 2014
Canada: Tribunal wrong to toss case on technicality, court rules
The Competition Tribunal was found to have erred in its decision to dismiss an antitrust case against the Toronto Real Estate Board due to a technicality, the Federal Court of...
January 29, 2014
Global: UBS exec predicts optimistic M&A this year
The head of US mergers and acquisitions at UBS is championing his optimism this year for mergers and acquisitions, reports say. Marc-Anthony Hourihan offered an interview in which the executive...
January 23, 2014
The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral
Intense competition from online and mobile channels, pricing pressures and shrinking margins, high fixed costs, changing customer demographics, and eroding revenue opportunities. Sound familiar? It should. It’s exactly what drove...
January 20, 2014
The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral
Intense competition from online and mobile channels, pricing pressures and shrinking margins, high fixed costs, changing customer demographics, and eroding revenue opportunities. Sound familiar? It should. It’s exactly what drove...
December 18, 2013
MasterCard To Distribute PayAnywhere mPOS
PayAnywhere and MasterCard have announced a new partnership that will see MasterCard distribute a branded, co-branded or white-label solution of PayAnywhere’s mPOS solutions to help small business owners (SMBs) reduce...
November 20, 2013
CFPB Issues Final TILA-RESPA Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final Truth in Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (TILA-RESPA) rule on November 20, the agency revealed on its official blog....
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.