Point of Sale

Experiment To Find The Mobile Payment Value

We all know that for mobile payments to ignite, consumers and merchants have to see the value. But what MPD Managing Director, John Caron saw yesterday didn’t blow him away. If it’s all about payments, then he’s not convinced it’s enough to get anyone to...

Did We Just See The Future of Mobile Payments?

Say hello to Apple Pay. It’s the new kid on the payments block and, depending on how things unfold, it could be the new gorilla in the mobile payments ecosystem. MPD CEO Karen Webster shares her first thoughts on what Apple Pay is and how...

Visa Europe Protests Being In U.S. Lawsuit

Having been dragged into a payment card interchange lawsuit, Visa Europe Limited and Visa Europe Services are pushing back, arguing that Walmart-led lawsuit “casts too wide a net, lumping them in with Visa even though they are only licensors of Visa and are owned by...

Apple Pay’s First Impressions

    The Seven Need-to-Knows About Apple’s New iPhones and Mobile Payments 1. Apple will introduce NFC-enabled iPhones–the 6 and 6 Plus of sizes 4.7” and 5.5” respectively. 2. Apple Pay is the mobile payments capability. It will tokenize cardholder payment information on a secure...

A First Look At Alibaba’s IPO Roadshow

Alibaba Group launched the roadshow for its $24 billion initial public offering in New York on Monday (Sept. 8). But although China’s e-commerce giant has updated its IPO filing six times since May, there are still unanswered questions, according to a Wall Street Journal blog....

Home Depot And Target Hit With Identical Malware

Home Depot has confirmed that its payment systems were breached at U.S. and Canadian stores, the retailer said on Monday (Sept. 8). The breach may have begun as early as April 2014, according to the chain, which is offering free identity protection services and credit...

Innovation … You Know It When You See It

How Innovative Is Payments? No one really knows how to consistently define or measure innovation. Hear me out. Tuesday (Sept. 9) is finally the day that Apple, a company that has topped just about every chart imaginable that measures innovation over the last three decades...

Over the past week, PYMNTS.com’s brief’s coverage in this newsletter has spanned a broad variety of issues. In this column, we take a look at five common elements that link many of those stories, in essence making them the “trends of the week.”   Banking...

Big Retail Investments, Huge Acquisitions And Security Reigns Supreme

PYMNTS Innovation Investment Tracker Here we are two months into Q3 and there are some interesting trends to observe in the FinTech investments space. Banking and security rule So do investments in retail payments Summer was defined by some pretty big acquisitions on both the...