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.” Cards Coin,...
Mobile phones are a fixture on college campuses and now so are payments using nothing more than those mobile phone numbers on campus and in the stores that surround it. Bill Nyhan, CEO at PXT Payments, recently told PYMNTS how his strategy of creating ubiquity...
Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to September sure signals that summer is over . If that isn’t enough, the signs of Fall are also in great abundance: kids are...
The world is global, so why isn’t eCommerce? MPD CEO Karen Webster hosted a digital discussion with BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier and President of iGlobal Stores Clint Reid to get to the bottom of why 75 percent of merchants in the US aren’t capable of...
The retail world is changing and Macy’s is transforming with it according to reporting in Retail Information System News. The retail giant putting its money where its intentions are, and throwing its $1billion-plus annual CapEx budget to building their infrastructure to fulfill a variety of...
Today’s consumers have lots of expectations, and merchants increasingly must address them to stay competitive. Manhattan Associates’ recent acquisition of GlobalBay from VeriFone illustrated the urgency to react to these market changes, which reflect the growing need for omnichannel and “clienteling” support. What a business...
Although some public retail companies this week reported better second-quarter same-store results than others, for varying reasons, the mood among the merchants’ executives was good. Helping drive those feelings are positive economic signs from July that have continued into August, while some, such as Target,...
Square will not require retailers to buy a new version of its Square Stand point-of-sale hardware for next year’s U.S. transition to supporting EMV “chip and PIN” cards, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday (Aug. 20). Instead, a countertop version of the...
Mobile POS startup SumUp has pulled in more than $10 million in a Series C financing round, but is also shedding two of its founders, according to Finextra. The “double digit million dollar” round, which was led by Russian venture capital fund Life.Sreda, also included...
