Tag: Self Service and Convenience

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The Interchange Antitrust Settlement: The Peril of “Going Nuclear”

by Ken Paterson

July 30, 2012

The proposed Visa/MasterCard Antitrustsettlement (Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant DiscountAntitrust Litigation) has been public for over a week now, ...

Security Considerations with Wider Use of Cloud and BYOD Solutions

by Edward O'Brien

July 25, 2012

American Banker recently noted PonemonInstitute and Palo Alto Networks surveys that indicate anincreasing number of employees, some of whom work ...

Why Gift Cards Will Never Be Entirely Digital or Entirely Dominant

by Ben Jackson

July 23, 2012

Technophiles like to predict that plasticwill disappear and that all gift cards will be purchased, sent,received, and redeemed via computers ...

Fully, Finally, and Forever – For Now

by Patricia Hewitt

July 16, 2012

The long wait is over as a settlement hasbeen reached in the "Payment Card Interchange Fee and MerchantDiscount Antitrust Litigation". ...

Alternative Lending: The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence - PaymentsJournal

Prepaid Cards and the Napoleonic Code

by Ben Jackson

July 9, 2012

Consumer advocacy groups and governmentregulators seem to judge the prepaid industry using a different setof standards compared with other available ...

U.S. Merchants in Need of Education on Contactless Payments

by Mercator Advisory Group

July 2, 2012

In early June, I took a taxi to meet somefriends for dinner in Boston. As the driver pulled up to ...

Apple’s Passbook is the Gateway App to Mobile Payments Adoption

by Ben Jackson

June 21, 2012

Apple Passbook mobile payments offered consumers an early bridge between traditional payment cards and the emerging world of smartphone-based commerce. ...