Payment Methods

How the Cool College Kids Will Pay On Campus
August 26, 2014

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...

What the Payments Industry Can Learn From India
August 26, 2014

India is still a cash centric society with few credit cards and only a third of its population owning a debit product. Yet, Srinivas Nidugondi, Head of Mobile Financial Solution at Mahindra Comviva, says the rest of the world can learn a lot about payments...

News
Coin’s All-In-One-Card Troubles
August 25, 2014

Coin, the device that looks to stand as an electronic replacement for credit and debit cards, is coming to market.  It will just be arriving somewhat later than originally forecasted. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Karen Webster
Who’s On Your 2014 Fantasy Payments Team?
August 25, 2014

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...

An Inside Look at How Cash Goes Digital in the Middle East and Africa
August 25, 2014

Developing economies such as the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are all poised for massive growth as cash goes digital and consumers embrace mobile. As different as these markets are, they have one common theme: consumers are driving the change. MasterCard’s CEO of ElectraCard Services...

Alternative Finances
Payment Firm Partners With Lender To Power SME Financing
August 22, 2014

Global payment provider Worldpay and lending firm OnDeckannounced on Wednesday (Aug. 20) that they partnered together to small and mid-sized firms get access to financing. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

International
A Cross Border Commerce Case Study: uSneaker and Its Missing $10 Million
August 22, 2014

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...

News
Say Bye-Bye To Merchant Chargebacks
August 22, 2014

Online fraud and risk management solution Riskified announced that it has lowered its price for flagship Shop Protection service by 50% to 0.7% per transaction, according to a company release.

B2B Payments
What Business Travel Optimism Means To B2B Companies
August 21, 2014

Across the globe, more travel buyers are becoming increasingly optimistic about business travel, according to a recent report. This means longer trips and higher travel spend budgets for many firms. But where is all of this optimism coming from, and is it going to last?...