January 10, 2012
New Celebrity Moves On Debit Card Trend

Personal finance expert Suze Orman is the latest celebrity to launch a prepaid debit card. However, the development has garnered conflicting reviews, according to the Credit Union Times. The card...

January 10, 2012
Romanian Citizen Arrested for Installing Atm “Skimming” Devices Used to...

January 6, 2012 Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Brian G. Parr, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the...

January 09, 2012
Credit Card Stock Predictions for 2012 from Citigroup

January 9, 2011 Citigroup forecasts that the U.S. card and payment sectors will outperform in 2012, reports Reuters. The brokerage points to indicators such as card loan growth and waning...

January 08, 2012
Mobile Financial Services and the Emerging Global Middle Class

How Mobile Technology Is Broadening Financial Access in Less-Developed Countries While Driving Business Opportunities for Global Companies I. Introduction   Access to financial services is a major challenge for more...

January 08, 2012
Mobile Payments: Time to Consider the Regulatory Landscape

The global mobile payment market is poised to explode over the next few years. One report predicts it will quadruple by 2014, reaching $630 billion in value.[i] According to this...

January 08, 2012
Addressing Card Skimming at the Point of Sale―PCI and EMV...

Introduction Have you received a call recently from your credit or debit card issuer asking you to verify suspicious transactions, only then learning that your card data was compromised and...

January 08, 2012
Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race

Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the race to the physical point of sale – mobile payments style....

January 08, 2012
Making Consumers Pay More for Cards Will Dampen Payments Innovation

A famous American philosopher by the name of Yogi Berra once said that it’s tough to make predictions—especially about the future. And of course any economist worth their salt knows...

January 06, 2012
Insights in India: Generating Accessible ePayments

It’s common knowledge that the demand for electronic payments exceeds supply in India. But what’s misunderstood is implementing the necessary infrastructure to meet those demands and figuring out how the...