Digital Gift Cards Are This Year’s Must-Have Item
Gift cards are king -- nearly 20% of the holiday spend this year is expected to take the form of...
Payments
The UK Teenage Fintech Unicorn is hiding in plain sight – Monetise
For London to earn the coveted title of Fintech Capital of the World, there needs to be a couple of...
M-Pesa and Bitcoin are mirror images of each other
M-Pesa started in Kenya because people were trading their mobile phone minutes; in a world without bank accounts or landlines,...
If at First You Don’t Succeed … Try Giving Out Free Money (Like Google Wallet)
Google Wallet is trying a new method to spur adoption: giving out free money. Google Wallet recently started a campaign...
Litle Is the Fastest Payment Processor in the World — Again
Once again, Litle & Co. is the fastest payment processor in the world.
Square, PayPal Lapses in QuickBooks Tough for Small Businesses
To say Square and PayPal are important to American small business might be an understatement. So when those two ventures'...
Does the Device Make the Payment or the Payment Make the Device?
What comes after mobile in payments? Mobile may be all the rage now, but wearables are coming fast, and then...
Snapcash is a Window into What Users Don’t Want Snapchat to Know
Reactions to the announcement of Snapchat's new payments service ran the gamut from "the future of payments" to, well, a...
Excitement About Mobile Payments Outruns Reality
Customers are fired up to make mobile payments using Google Wallet and Apple Pay even if they don't own the...
Implications of American Payments Being so Different from Rest of World
Europeans and Asians love pointing out how backward America is in payments, because American tech firms dominate the payments landscape....
