July 03, 2012
Payments Fireworks: The Industry’s Most Spectacular Shows
Which payments companies have been setting off fireworks this season? Several companies have been firing off rockets — each with a little bit of a different feel to them —...
July 02, 2012
Mainstreaming Mobile Payments In Middle East And Africa
A study from the GSM Association in June 2011 said 80 percent of global mobile financial transactions were made in East Africa. Mobile money leader M-PESA is transacting over US...
June 27, 2012
RBS’ Payments Nightmare: Our Experts Sort Out the Disaster
To say it’s been a bad week for the Royal Bank of Scotland doesn’t come close: beginning last Tuesday, millions of RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers were frozen out...
June 26, 2012
PYMNTS Daily Roundup: June 27-28
Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Partners With MasterCard On Rewards Program MasterCard Morning Brew: Credit v. Debit Visa Debit Launches at TD Canada Trust VeriFone Takes Sail, Its Mobile Payment Device,...
June 26, 2012
Motorola Explains Why Mobile is Valuable to Big Retail
You might think of mobile payment card reading technology as a relatively cheap and simple way for small and medium-sized businesses to accept another form of payment. But Jerry McNerney,...
June 25, 2012
Olympics Bring Top Dollar to London
According to MasterCard Global City Index, London is the hottest city in the world right now and will attract the highest international visitor spend, ahead of New York, Bangkok, Paris...
June 14, 2012
Olympics Bring Top Dollar To London
According to MasterCard Global City Index, London is the hottest city in the world right now and will attract the highest international visitor spend, ahead of New York, Bangkok, Paris...
June 06, 2012
HSBC Says Virtual Currencies Will Soon Become Mainstream
HSBC expects virtual currencies to become a popular form of exchange in the near future, according to the Financial Review. “We have a planning assumption that virtual currencies will become...
June 03, 2012
Cash Isn’t Free ― But It’s Not Going Away, Either
So, it’s not exactly a news flash that, in spite of electronic payments, cash is sticking around for a long time for a lot of different reasons. But, one of...