Smart Payments news and trends

How Smarter Payments Help Build Smart Marketplaces
Smarter Payments // November 08, 2018

Not every eCommerce platform is as user-friendly as Amazon. Craigslist and its ilk, for instance, still require buyers and sellers to meet in person to pay. This arrangement, says Escrow.com GM Jackson Elsegood, also requires parties to confront stranger danger fears. In the latest Smarter...

NEW REPORT: How Smarter Payments Build Smarter, Safer Marketplaces
Smarter Payments // November 07, 2018

The rise of faster payment systems worldwide are not only enabling payments to move between parties at greatly enhanced speeds, but a growing share of companies are rethinking their traditional business models to take advantage of these more efficient payment tools. The new Smarter Payments...

I2c Brings Former Macaluso Group Exec Dargan On Board To Head Global Strategic Partnerships
Personnel // August 07, 2018

In an announcement on Tuesday (Aug. 7), integrated commerce and smart payments firm i2c said it had appointed Ted Dargan to the role of vice president and head of global strategic partnerships. He will be responsible for generating new business opportunities through strategic partner channels....

Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017
Payments Innovation // July 06, 2018

Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of...

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

July 06, 2018
Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. While shipment volumes in China and the United States “continue to normalize,” contactless payment cards are more than 70 percent of shipments in “a growing number of territories,” the association said in […]

Payments Firm i2c Opens Op Center In Omaha

March 13, 2018
Smart payments and integrated commerce firm i2c said Tuesday that it is opening an operations center in Omaha, Nebraska. That center will be operational during the second quarter of this...

Qvivr In $5M Series A, Plans New Technology

February 01, 2017
Silicon Valley-based FinTech startup Qvivr just recently announced that it had raised $5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round. The round was reportedly led by Khosla Ventures...

LG Pay Will Be All About A Card

February 01, 2016
Remember LG Pay? The future mobile payments service thats’s coming from LG? Well, it just got a little more interesting. A new report about LG Pay shows that it won’t...