April 02, 2012
Leave Us Alone, We’re Innovating!
Last week I was asked to give my thoughts on what the market obstacles are to payments innovation and what if anything the government should do about this. The occasion...
April 01, 2012
Leave Us Alone, We’re Innovating!
Last week I was asked to give my thoughts on what the market obstacles are to payments innovation and what if anything the government should do about this. The occasion...
March 28, 2012
Ingenico’s Denis Predicts the Future of EMV in North America
(Scroll down to access the audio interview) Don’t doubt it for a second: EMV is happening in the United States. Combined with the incentive of long-term fraud reduction, the short-term...
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”...
March 26, 2012
MasterCard Wants Commuters Better Rested and Less Angry
Closed-loop systems are causing unnecessary frustration for commuters who use mass transit every day. MasterCard Senior Vice President Catherine Murchie says there’s a better way, and explains how we can...
March 25, 2012
Security Breach! Barclays’ Contactless Cards Have Issues
An investigative team was able to use mobile phones to lift card numbers, expiration dates, and accountholder names from Barclays’ “contactless” Visa cards late last week. That data was then...
March 19, 2012
Digital Currencies: No Threat to Their Real Counterparts – Yet
There has been much speculation about the fate of the Euro over recent months. Maybe a bit too much as it is difficult to predict (and tiring to hear) what...
March 01, 2012
U.S. Payment Systems to Sync with Rest of World
Related Content: VeriFone: The Key to EMV For Credit Card Security, Chips Beat Strips, VeriFone Says After essentially standing alone in resisting migration to the EMV security...
March 01, 2012
VeriFone: Making the EMV Transition
U.S. retailers are now actively being steered towards adoption of the global EMV standard. Visa, MasterCard and Discover have each issued announcements and outlining how they envision this shift to...
Dining in is back on the menu at many quick-service restaurants (QSRs), but digital ordering and payment options are still playing a major role in their operations. In the Order To Eat Tracker, a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration, Brad West, chief operating officer at Noodles & Company, explains how innovations like contactless payments and ordering are playing a key role in driving sales across all channels.
