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The Bitcoin Bubble Explained, Colbert-Style (Video)
April 21, 2013 @ 16:26 PM | By Kathy Burger

The comedian analyzes the volatile online currency.

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NFC Moves Forward With Case-Based Payments
January 11, 2013 @ 09:21 AM | By Bryan Yurcan

U.S. Bank is among those testing an NFC-enabled iPhone case

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How Banks Can Overcome Disintermediation
January 04, 2013 @ 09:51 AM | By Greg Hammermaster- Sage North America

The threat of disintermediation has long haunted banks, and it only continues to rise.

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Is Bitcoin Becoming a Bank?
December 07, 2012 @ 10:10 AM | By Bryan Yurcan

A European Bitcoin exchange says it has been granted payments service provider status by French officials.

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Does Bill Pay Really Work For Businesses and Their Banks?
November 08, 2012 @ 10:25 AM | By BC Krishna- MineralTree

Today’s consumer-oriented bill pay solutions result in inefficiency, expense and risk for small to medium businesses.

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Groupon Enters Mobile Payments Battle Looking to Gain Customer Data and Insight
September 19, 2012 @ 15:59 PM | By Jonathan Camhi

Groupon's new Square-like card reader and payments processing service will give it heaps of customer data to help personalize its coupon offers.

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Has Bitcoin Finally Arrived?
September 04, 2012 @ 09:45 AM | By Bryan Yurcan

A New Hampshire state representative recently added a donation option on his website to accept the digital currency.

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Is Apple Preparing a Mobile Wallet?
August 28, 2012 @ 17:30 PM | By Bryan Yurcan

Leaked photos of the next generation iPhone purportedly show an NFC chip as part of the device.

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Is The Wild World of Mobile Payments About To Be Tamed?
August 17, 2012 @ 15:22 PM | By Kathy Burger

The mobile payments arena currently is a bit of a free-for-all, with lots of announcements of new schemes and partnerships (not all of which include banks). Will the regulators ruin the fun?

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Moving Forward Mobile Payments
August 16, 2012 @ 14:56 PM | By Bryan Yurcan

The Merchant Customer Exchange partnership between major retailers has a chance to be a major force in growing mobile payments adoption.

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New Deal with Starbucks Raises New Issue for Square
August 10, 2012 @ 16:59 PM | By Jonathan Camhi

The new deal with Starbucks means that Square will have to figure out how to make money processing credit card transactions for small purchases, like a cup of coffee.

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Square Will Use GPS to Spread Mobile Payments
August 08, 2012 @ 14:21 PM | By

Square's new partnership with Starbucks opens the door to intriguing possibilities for using GPS to spread its mobile payments technology.

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Winning the Mobile Wallet Race
August 06, 2012 @ 10:22 AM | By Douglas Brown- FIS

The providers that drive benefits for financial institutions, retailers and consumers will emerge from the pack.

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Tapping the Payments Opportunity: Creating an Integrated Payments Business
August 03, 2012 @ 13:35 PM | By Peter Ognibene- Berkery Noyes

A fully integrated payments business provides banks with the best opportunity to compete.

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Will EMV Prevent ATM Fraud?
August 02, 2012 @ 15:23 PM | By Bryan Yurcan

The latest criminal bust for skimming ATMs brings into focus EMV's apparent strength in that area.

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Mobile Payments: Can Banks Seize the Moment to Transform Consumer Finance?
August 02, 2012 @ 08:40 AM | By Kathy Burger

The growth of mobile banking has created a competitive landscape in payments and has caught the attention of government regulatory agencies. In the continuing payments evolution, can banks take advantage of the opportunities ahead?

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How to Prepare for EMV
August 01, 2012 @ 13:17 PM | By Andy Brown- ACI Worldwide

The liability shift around EMV implementation is rapidly approaching.

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The Future of Payments at the Olympics
July 26, 2012 @ 10:57 AM | By Bryan Yurcan

Visa is showing off some of its new payments innovations at the London Olympic Games.

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Will Apple Pursue A Mobile Wallet?
June 12, 2012 @ 09:04 AM | By Bryan Yurcan

The company unveiled the very wallet-like Passbook app at its Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday.

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Rethinking the Biggest Threat to Banks
March 14, 2012 @ 16:01 PM | By Olivia LaBarre

A panelist at the BAI Payments Connect conference says the most disruptive and threatening force to banks is not PayPal or third-party technology vendors, but a retailer.

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