The Elusive Search for Profit in Faster Payments
An article in Forbes describing a recent report from Ovum characterizes the difficulties that financial institutions have in defining a...
Walmart and Target Push the Fed on Faster Payments
An article in the Wall Street Journal today suggests that faster payments, and specifically the Federal Reserve’s participation in faster...
The Battle for Faster Payment Supremacy
In one corner we have the view expressed primarily by community banks and consumer advocacy groups that having one industry...
Interchange Fees Drop in the EU
Mastercard and Visa both have proposed to lower interchange in the European Region when a card that was [caption id="attachment_76152"...
Death, Taxes and Faster Payment Fraud
As faster payments and real-time payments emerge in the U.S. financial services market, the vulnerabilities that can lead to fraud...
The Long Road to Person-to-Person Payment Ubiquity
The growth of person-to-person (P2P) transactions continues to be brisk with leading providers Zelle and Venmo. It may be surprising...
Chinese Tourists Outspend Other Travelers
If you have been to Las Vegas or other locations in the US that attracts tourist from abroad, you will...
Faster Payments; It’s Not About the Speed
In conversations and meetings about faster payments, someone is bound to say at some point that faster payments is not...
A Faster Payments Use Case that is Catching On
Stripe announced that it will be joining a few other payment processors in offering merchants the opportunity to receive their...
For Now, A Lot of Talk, Not Much Issuance for Contactless
Don’t get me wrong, I like the consumer experience of contactless cards. I like it even more than tapping my...
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