January 07, 2014
Digital River Teases Bitcoin Integration For 2014
Innovation means constantly exploring new and disruptive ideas, and it’s a propensity for this kind of thinking that has propelled Digital River to its global eCommerce status. In a new...
January 07, 2014
Digital River Teases Bitcoin Integration For 2014
Innovation means constantly exploring new and disruptive ideas, and it’s a propensity for this kind of thinking that has propelled Digital River to its global eCommerce status. In a new...
January 06, 2014
How Chinese Antitrust Law Has Affected the Business Operations in...
Jan 07, 2014 CPI Asia Column edited by Vanessa Yanhua Zhang (Global Economics Group) presents: How Chinese Antitrust Law Has Affected the Business Operations in China: Perspective of Life Science...
January 06, 2014
Digital River Teases Bitcoin Integration For 2014
2024 might feel far away, but as Market Platform Dynamics (MPD) CEO Karen Webster has illustrated, thinking one, two or even three years ahead in payments is no longer enough....
December 30, 2013
Looking Ahead At The Close Of 2013
To paraphrase the immortal words of Yogi Berra, predictions are really hard, especially when they’re about the future. That’s why we’ve made it our annual tradition at PYMNTS.com to round...
December 19, 2013
BOA, Earthport Ink Cross-Border Payments Deal
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has signed a multi-year agreement with Earthport to provide cross-border payments clearance and processing solutions to its global customer base, the bank announced in a...
November 01, 2013
Payments Player Of The Week: MasterCard
Name: MasterCardHeadquarters: Purchase, New York Founded: 1966 Employees: 5,500 Market Capitalization: $86.5 billion Key Stats: 1. Q3 global purchase volume up 14% 2. Credit card users spent $590 billion in 6.3 billion transactions....
October 31, 2013
MasterCard Leads A Mixed Batch Of Week’s Industry Earnings
By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) Quarterly earnings released this week among some key payments industry players showed mixed results, with MasterCard among the top performers. MasterCard on October 31 reported a...
October 18, 2013
Issue 2: Catastrophic Failure and Systemic Risk
The Problem Electronic payments systems are subject to catastrophic risks of failure from software malfunctions and cyber attacks. Isolated failures wreak havoc only on the consumers and businesses directly affected...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.