Interchange fees, assessed by credit card companies on merchants for credit and debit card transactions, have taken center stage. Companies are assessed these costs by financial institutions in e...
Facebook, Alphabet/Google, Apple and Amazon are under the microscope these days as politicians and regulators the world over accuse them of anticompetitive behaviors. In our new Big Tech Compli...
The last days of summer here. The end of a quarter is approaching, and with that, we head into the end of a year. It’s been a dizzying few months in payments. Amid your Labor Day BBQ, we ...
When it comes to pumping up sales, strategically infused tech can be downright performance-enhancing. In the latest PYMNTS.com Developer Tracker™, powered by Vantiv, Ben Brown at technology-pow...
Holy moly, 2016 was quite a year. Month to month, PYMNTS.com follows the innovation that’s reshaping the payments and commerce ecosystem. As 2016 wrapped up, we looked back at some of the bigge...
https://www.pymnts.com/exclusive-series/trackers/2017/2016-year-of-trackers/
From video game consoles to online browsers, eCommerce is reaching familiar platforms in new ways. This month’s edition of the PYMNTS Developer Tracker profiles 60 developers who are using sof...
https://www.pymnts.com/exclusive-series/trackers/2015/when-old-meets-new-in-payments/
The holidays are nearly over and so far spending and shopping data has beat out industry expectations – but were omnichannel merchants able to come out on top? The December edition of the Vanti...
https://www.pymnts.com/exclusive-series/2015/getting-omni-ready-for-the-holidays/
Cyber Monday 2015 is now one for the record books. Analysts say that more than $3 billion was spent by consumers, a dramatic increase over 2014. Higher employment rates and lower gas prices have ...
https://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/cross-borders-slippery-cyber-slope/
The lack of deep pockets and room for experimentation makes many small and medium enterprises ask, “What’s in it for me?” before jumping on technology solutions that claim to be the latest ...
Square’s birth opened up the floodgates for mPOS to flourish. But its growing pains are also reflective of the industry’s journey from fragmentation to consolidation. While the company has ac...
https://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/squares-scare-harsh-lessons-from-the-mpos-unicorn/