Meet Alok Bhanot, EVP and Chief Technology Officer at Verifone. Having more than 20 years of experience driving new ideas for global technology organizations, he knows what he’s talking about when he talks innovation. And that’s just what he did with PYMNTS, as part of...
August 2014 While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because they view it as an enabler to the biggest merchant initiative of this...
We admit it – we thought that just bringing you the monthly updates on mPOS was getting a little long of tooth. So, we decided to get a little “jiggy” with the mPOS Tracker. Starting this month, we’ll be going well beyond tracking only the...
The Fed’s new mobile survey data contains a treasure trove of information on how mobile payments and digital wallets are doing. To guide us through the mass of data MPD CEO Karen Webster relies on a well-known and highly rigorous statistical technique to ferret out...
March 03, 2017
Mobile payments get a lot of attention — just not exactly from the right sources. They have been studied endlessly, invested in heavily, written about extensively and anticipated widely for at least the better part of the last decade. But despite all the industry enthusiasm, two critical groups have remained largely unfazed by the emergence […]