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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit Availability and its Effect on Economic Growth

by Edward O'Brien

August 24, 2012

A recent study from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Banknotes banks' reluctance to lend to consumers with subprime creditis creating ...

Square Rolls Out Flat Fee Pricing

by George Peabody

August 17, 2012

Square announced Aug. 16 a new pricing schemewith a flat fee of $275 per month for merchants making less than$250,000 ...

National Habits Complicate Working Capital Management

by Patricia McGinnis

August 13, 2012

For many businesses, a measure of success inthe treasury area is the firm's ability to keep its days salesoutstanding (DSO) ...

The ETA Goes Mobile

by George Peabody

August 10, 2012

The Electronic Transacticon Association isjumping into the middle of one of the most important andchallenging questions for the payments industry. ...