Payment Methods

Apple Pay
Apple Pay By The Numbers |  1 Million Cards In 72 Hours And Other A-Mazing...
October 31, 2014

Never let it be said that Apple doesn’t know how to launch a product.  As October ends, Apple can report 1+ million downloads of its new digital wallet in just three days, a milestone that took Dunkin’ Donuts 6 weeks to achieve and Starbucks even...

Apple Pay’s Most Unusual Ignition Strategy
October 31, 2014

What a week for Apple Pay! Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to...

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Visa Raises – And Lowers – Interchange Fees
October 31, 2014

The day after Visa signaled that it will raise the interchange fee charged to U.S. banks next year, both Visa and MasterCard “are on the verge of lowering the processing fees paid by Canadian merchants, a move that reflects the traction merchants have gained with...

When’s A Token Not A Token?
October 31, 2014

There are three things that consumers, merchants, issuers and card networks all want from a payments experience: that it be secure, that it be easy to use and that it be available to consumers at all of the places they want to shop. The payments...

B2B Payments
In B2B Payments, The Magic In How A Govt. Phrases Things
October 31, 2014

When Ramesh Tainwala took over as CEO of luggage giant Samsonite International this month, he got an important lesson in the nuance of phrasing in China. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Starbucks Claims 90 Percent Mobile Payments Market Share
October 31, 2014

Although Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said his coffee company has already found the recipe to capture a loyal base of mobile customers, he said the launch of Starbucks’ mobile order and pay app in December will be the single-most important technology innovation introduced by the...

QVC Uses TouchID With Its Own App
October 31, 2014

E-tailer QVC announced Thursday (Oct. 30) that it will let shoppers use the TouchID fingerprint recognition capabilities on recent iPhone models to authenticate purchases in-app instead of passwords or PINs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Poll Finds Americans Trust Banks Even Less
October 31, 2014

Americans are trusting banks less while their trust in credit unions has stayed pretty much the same, according to poll results released Thursday (Oct. 30) by the The Harris Poll. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Transforming Payments from Cost Centers to Revenue Drivers
October 30, 2014

Corporate payments programs have often been regarded as costly and tedious, but new insights from recent data to be presented at Money 20/20 show otherwise, according to Digital River. On Monday, November 20 at 1 PM EST, MPD CEO Karen Webster will host a live...