Terry X Xie

Prepaid markets worldwide have expandedquickly the past decade, often surpassing credit and debit cardgrowth. Prepaid represents tremendous opportunities, which is...

MasterCard last week signed a memorandum of understanding withAlibaba Group, the largest B2B and C2C e-business in China. Theobjective of...

Taiwan's financial regulator, the FinancialSupervisory Commission, recently announced it had started to acceptapplications for mobile payments. Five small local banks...

Mobile point-of-sale technology has transformed card acceptance by making it easier and more affordable for small merchants to accept electronic...

For years, credit card interest rates inBrazil have been among the world's highest, surpassing 100 percenta year despite the benchmark...

China has yet to experience a large-scalerollout of contactless cards or Near Field Communincation-basedmobile payments, but China UnionPay is quietly...

According to recent news reports like this one from Reuters, Samsung sold some20 million NFC-enabled Galaxy S III smartphones in...

Last month, a panel from the World TradeOrganization announced its findings on alleged violations byChina's government in the domestic-payments card...

Brazilian consumers have a long history usingprepaid cards. Two key factors drive prepaid card use in Brazil andother Latin American...

The Brazilian merchant acquiring market isundergoing one of the biggest fundamental changes in industrystructure. In the past, the market was...