June 13, 2019If one doesn’t know where they’re going, sang one Beatle, any road will get them there — but not easily or efficiently. In an age of eCommerce (of two-hour delivery ...
June 12, 2019Trust is the currency that makes online marketplaces of all shapes and sizes run — but in a world where cybercrime and digital attacks on consumer identity are endemic, it ...
June 10, 2019A few weeks ago, card giant Visa debuted Visa Next, bringing a wealth of broad API functionality to issuing banks and partners. Sam Shrauger, SVP of digital solutions at Visa, walks ...
June 10, 2019With summer upon us, it might have escaped notice that the decade of the 2010s is about to end. We don’t mean to get nostalgic or weepy-eyed (not just yet), ...
June 5, 2019Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card rails in reverse has unlocked ...
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May 31, 2019Accounts payable (AP) processes are anything but efficient, mired in paper and manual labor. Waiting for the fax machine to break is no spur of change, either. However, as Matt ...
May 30, 2019As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.”
Take a time machine and travel back about 15 years, and one will hear merchants ...
May 24, 2019Home shopping tends to take a lot of teasing. However, even in the eCommerce world of 2019, it still manages to be a surprisingly lucrative and competitive space. For example, ...
May 24, 2019Look no further than the lobby of a typical office building for a glimpse of the living past — along with a potential vision of the digital future. Think about ...
May 23, 2019The B2B space needs to transform from paper-based to automated process — and nowhere is this more apparent than with accounts payable (AP). As Jessica Moran, general manager of Paymode-X Business ...
May 23, 2019Digital banking is not the main element that drives consumers toward using a credit union. According to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook, a PYMNTS and PSCU collaboration, trust is the ...
May 22, 2019There is no “i” in team — every coach’s mantra. Guess what, though? That’s only half the story when it comes to the concept of working together for the greater ...
May 21, 2019Most of us, upon spotting a $10 bill on the ground, would pick it up and pocket it, assuming we were sure we were not stealing that money. It’s pretty ...
May 21, 2019Instant payments is an innovation that doesn’t require much explanation. Getting immediate access to money is an obviously better solution than waiting for the check to arrive in the mail, or constantly refreshing a mobile banking app to see if ...
May 17, 2019It might be too much (and certainly too cliché) to call it a revolution. Even so, it’s in the same neighborhood — consumer demand for faster, digitally pushed payments is ...
May 17, 2019Pain comes in many forms, including through anticipation. That holds true for the world of payments, even in this golden age of digital transactions and commerce.
One of the best ways ...
May 8, 2019The world is becoming one big marketplace — even if the marketplace doesn’t always look like one. That’s not some ancient riddle updated for these roaring days of digital commerce ...
May 7, 2019When it comes to long-term consumer relationships, few businesses can top banks. They tend to keep ties with consumers over decades — and, sometimes, those ties can last generations for ...
May 7, 2019The world of consumer banking and payments is an ever-evolving space — and most of those innovations are good things.
Take something as simple online bill payments. As Denise Stevens, SVP ...
May 6, 2019There is a tendency when talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) — and all the miraculous things it will power in the future — to lose sight of the ...
May 6, 2019Faster, faster, faster — that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today. Real-time payments offers promise for both small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers. That holds especially ...
April 30, 2019PSD2 will change – indeed is changing – online commerce in Europe and beyond. In a podcast with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages, took note of how ...
April 30, 2019The rise of smart vending machines is helping unattended retail get a new lease on life, changing everything from the way we browse shelves to the way we pay for ...
April 26, 2019When digital payments and commerce professionals talk about “friction,” they usually mean reducing barriers that make a consumer pause before buying a new pair of shoes, opening a bank account ...
April 22, 2019A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one. And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen ...
April 22, 2019“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” — so goes the dim, cynical saying. That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one ...
April 19, 2019There’s nothing inherently wrong with such whiskeys as Jim Beam and Jack Daniels — they are a staple of blues, country and rock-and-roll songwriting, after all, and still have the ...
April 19, 2019Inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere, and that goes for digital innovation in payments and commerce. Just ask Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion (a Mastercard company), who recently spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about ...
April 15, 2019Talk with old-timers from the Bay Area – or people approaching old-timey status – and there’s a good chance you’ll hear stories, lamentations and rants about how that metro area ...
April 10, 2019There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how ...
April 9, 2019It happens. An issuer suspects a card has been compromised, or a consumer remembers that their debit card is in their jacket pocket only after leaving it at the cleaners. ...
April 9, 2019Amazon failed Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce, a visual search firm, when it came to the cheesy sweater — the one with, in his words, “little teddy bears all over it.” ...
April 8, 2019Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73 percent every single year. This was ...
April 8, 2019 Open banking is here. Open API platforms take the heavy lifting off enterprises’ shoulders as firms spanning retail, health care and real estate seek to streamline the movement of ...
April 5, 2019While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a ...
April 4, 2019Financial institutions are flagging a bit when it comes to deployment of new technologies and financial products. One reason is infrastructure, where legacy systems hamper results – but mindsets matter, ...
April 3, 2019Convenience stores (C-stores), overall, are in an innovation rut. While there are some larger chains that have made great leaps and bounds into the digital age of commerce and mobile omnichannel ...
April 2, 2019The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between March and August each year, ...
If one doesn’t know where they’re going, sang one Beatle, any road will get them there — but not easily or efficiently. In an age of eCommerce (of two-hour delivery ...
Trust is the currency that makes online marketplaces of all shapes and sizes run — but in a world where cybercrime and digital attacks on consumer identity are endemic, it ...
A few weeks ago, card giant Visa debuted Visa Next, bringing a wealth of broad API functionality to issuing banks and partners. Sam Shrauger, SVP of digital solutions at Visa, walks ...
With summer upon us, it might have escaped notice that the decade of the 2010s is about to end. We don’t mean to get nostalgic or weepy-eyed (not just yet), ...
Push payments have been a topic of conversation in the developed world for the last several years, across verticals and use cases. Riding the card rails in reverse has unlocked ...
.rslides1 li {
margin: 0!important;
padding: 0!important;
} Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half ...
Accounts payable (AP) processes are anything but efficient, mired in paper and manual labor. Waiting for the fax machine to break is no spur of change, either. However, as Matt ...
As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.”
Take a time machine and travel back about 15 years, and one will hear merchants ...
Home shopping tends to take a lot of teasing. However, even in the eCommerce world of 2019, it still manages to be a surprisingly lucrative and competitive space. For example, ...
Look no further than the lobby of a typical office building for a glimpse of the living past — along with a potential vision of the digital future. Think about ...
The B2B space needs to transform from paper-based to automated process — and nowhere is this more apparent than with accounts payable (AP). As Jessica Moran, general manager of Paymode-X Business ...
Digital banking is not the main element that drives consumers toward using a credit union. According to the Credit Union Innovation Playbook, a PYMNTS and PSCU collaboration, trust is the ...
There is no “i” in team — every coach’s mantra. Guess what, though? That’s only half the story when it comes to the concept of working together for the greater ...
Most of us, upon spotting a $10 bill on the ground, would pick it up and pocket it, assuming we were sure we were not stealing that money. It’s pretty ...
Instant payments is an innovation that doesn’t require much explanation. Getting immediate access to money is an obviously better solution than waiting for the check to arrive in the mail, or constantly refreshing a mobile banking app to see if ...
It might be too much (and certainly too cliché) to call it a revolution. Even so, it’s in the same neighborhood — consumer demand for faster, digitally pushed payments is ...
Pain comes in many forms, including through anticipation. That holds true for the world of payments, even in this golden age of digital transactions and commerce.
One of the best ways ...
The world is becoming one big marketplace — even if the marketplace doesn’t always look like one. That’s not some ancient riddle updated for these roaring days of digital commerce ...
When it comes to long-term consumer relationships, few businesses can top banks. They tend to keep ties with consumers over decades — and, sometimes, those ties can last generations for ...
The world of consumer banking and payments is an ever-evolving space — and most of those innovations are good things.
Take something as simple online bill payments. As Denise Stevens, SVP ...
There is a tendency when talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) — and all the miraculous things it will power in the future — to lose sight of the ...
Faster, faster, faster — that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today. Real-time payments offers promise for both small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers. That holds especially ...
PSD2 will change – indeed is changing – online commerce in Europe and beyond. In a podcast with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages, took note of how ...
The rise of smart vending machines is helping unattended retail get a new lease on life, changing everything from the way we browse shelves to the way we pay for ...
When digital payments and commerce professionals talk about “friction,” they usually mean reducing barriers that make a consumer pause before buying a new pair of shoes, opening a bank account ...
A good electrical engineer can be hard to find, which can serve as a massive friction for any firm that needs one. And as Freelancer.com CEO and Chairman Matt Barrie told Karen ...
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” — so goes the dim, cynical saying. That would seem to apply to credit unions (CUs), and to Consumers Credit Union of Illinois specifically, one ...
There’s nothing inherently wrong with such whiskeys as Jim Beam and Jack Daniels — they are a staple of blues, country and rock-and-roll songwriting, after all, and still have the ...
Inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere, and that goes for digital innovation in payments and commerce. Just ask Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion (a Mastercard company), who recently spoke with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about ...
Talk with old-timers from the Bay Area – or people approaching old-timey status – and there’s a good chance you’ll hear stories, lamentations and rants about how that metro area ...
There are plenty of high-tech ways to verify a customer’s identity — fingerprints, voiceprints, faceprints, phone data. There are even technologies built to identify a customer based purely on how ...
It happens. An issuer suspects a card has been compromised, or a consumer remembers that their debit card is in their jacket pocket only after leaving it at the cleaners. ...
Amazon failed Ted Mann, CEO of Slyce, a visual search firm, when it came to the cheesy sweater — the one with, in his words, “little teddy bears all over it.” ...
Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker turnover rate is 73 percent every single year. This was ...
Open banking is here. Open API platforms take the heavy lifting off enterprises’ shoulders as firms spanning retail, health care and real estate seek to streamline the movement of ...
While there any number of specific reasons to start a business, for most of the founders we talk to it always comes down to a similar story. They identified a ...
Financial institutions are flagging a bit when it comes to deployment of new technologies and financial products. One reason is infrastructure, where legacy systems hamper results – but mindsets matter, ...
Convenience stores (C-stores), overall, are in an innovation rut. While there are some larger chains that have made great leaps and bounds into the digital age of commerce and mobile omnichannel ...
The home-selling season is upon us — and will be for the next several months. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sold in the U.S. sell between March and August each year, ...
