As the holiday season approaches and the frequency of payments spikes, understanding how and where consumers use different payment devices is invaluable to both merchants and issuers alike, helping assist in customer service, authorization, and...

Was your first reaction to the Global Payments – TSYS merger an eye roll and “here we go again”? Looking deeper at why these two companies are a good fit demonstrates the evolution of payment companies needing to think as software companies first,...

Mobile payment choice is still evolving and will vary by merchant. Smaller ticket values in mobile apps for quick service restaurants versus using Walmart Pay. Mobile wallets can also be used for e-commerce activity. Consumer confusion as to how...

Consumers tend to spend less per e-commerce shopping experience when using alternative payments like PayPal and Amazon Payments. On average consumers select credit cards as their payment methods more than 3 times a month. During the last 6 weeks of...

“Do you accept bitcoin?” Is this the question merchants can expect to be hearing soon? Recent news around bitcoin – specifically its rise above $10,000 in value - has once again begged the question – what is bitcoin? This time the question doesn’t...

Now that the largest banks in the land have come together to make settlement speed a competitive advantage in the P2P space, they still must address the complex customer experience and lack of mobile support that continues to drive customers in...

Mastercard relaunches its Masterpass service to enable issuers to deliver new bank branded payment apps

CFPB has proposed new rules for Payday, Auto Title, and High Cost Installment Loans and created

Coverage of the Best Of Show Winners from the Finovate Spring 2016 Show, along with three additional honorable mentions

The logjam preventing widespread adoption of real-time payments is going to be smashed in 2016 with growing adoption of mobile P2P. While banks and NACHA have been talking about delivering real-time payment functionality for the past several years,...