July 26, 2010
Is It a Dud or Not: Views on Payments Innovation
PYMNTS.com recently published Separating Fantasy from Reality in the Brave New World of Payments Innovation. In this piece, author David Evans suggests five screening rules for identifying successful payment start-ups...
July 16, 2010
Seeking Fertile Grounds for Mobile Money
M-PESA is a huge success… and now what? Safaricom’s M-Pesa success story has focused the global attention on Kenya as the leading edge of the mobile money revolution2. M-Pesa...
May 14, 2010
Prepaid Payments- Sponsored by MasterCard
MasterCard has sponsored this Prepaid Payments Briefing Room to bring you a series of announcements and interviews on what’s next in prepaid. PKO Bank Polski Teams with MasterCard Prepaid ServicesAs...
January 11, 2010
Elavon’s New Fusebox Payment Gateway
Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and leading global payments company announces the introduction of Fusebox, its next-generation hosted payment gateway that provides secure multi-point connectivity...
December 15, 2009
The Decade’s 12 Greatest Developments in Payments: #11 How the...
A global war on interchange fees raged during most of the decade and will continue into the next. We’ll have to wait until next decade to find out who wins...
October 16, 2009
SEPA: How Come and What’s Up?
Introduction The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is gradually coming into force. The aim of SEPA is to harmonize the Euro payment market; citizens and corporations in Europe already...
October 15, 2009
A Review of Payment Card Economics
The proliferation of payment cards-that is, debit, credit, and prepaid cards-has dramatically changed the way we shop and merchants sell goods and services. Today, payment cards are indispensable in most...
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.