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Renewed Emphasis on Cash Management in Banking

by Edward O'Brien

September 17, 2012

NCR's recent announcement about itsacquisition of cash optimization vendor Transoft International isyet another indication about the importance of cash management ...

Banks Possibly Coming Together for Digital Cash Means Real-Time Convenience

by Mercator Advisory Group

September 12, 2012

Real-time P2P payments could help banks make electronic money transfers more competitive with cash by giving consumers the ability to ...

Samsung Leads Charge (So Far) With NFC-Enabled Devices

by Terry X Xie

September 10, 2012

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

MasterCard Brings Rewards Platform Into the Network

by Mercator Advisory Group

September 7, 2012

Rewards programs are becoming an increasingly important part of the digital payments ecosystem as card networks look for new ways ...

China UnionPay Makes Appearance in High-end NYC Stores

by Mercator Advisory Group

September 7, 2012

It is not easy to force big United States merchants to expand their payment options. But as luxury retail chains ...

The Days of GPR Are Over!

by Tim Sloane

September 6, 2012

It is no secret that I believe the term"general purpose reloadable" is a huge liability to the prepaidindustry. This entry ...

Shifting Occupational Pools Means Big Changes for U.S. Financial Services

by Patricia Hewitt

September 5, 2012

Listen to Patricia Hewitt read herPerspective.The National Employment Law Project (NELP)this past week released the results of its analysis of ...

Isis Reiterates Intent to Launch by End of Summer

by Mercator Advisory Group

September 4, 2012

Isis is the NFC-based mobile payments joint venture formed by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless.When the Isis digital ...

The Dystopia of “Minority Report” is Merging with Reality

by Mercator Advisory Group

August 24, 2012

This clip above is from Steven Spielberg's MinorityReport, a film released in the summer of 2002. The scene shows TomCruise's ...

Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) and Seat Belts

by David Fish

August 24, 2012

Since Heartland Payment Systems popularizedthe concept after the breach of its servers was disclosed in late2008, the merchant acquiring industry's ...