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Foursquare’s Location-Awareness and Loyalty at POS
In a most interesting blog post by Foursquare today, the company's biz dev team talks about how the location-based app plans to evolve its platform by integrating with "thousands of merchants".As MG Siegler writing on TechCrunch noted, down near...
An Approaching Tipping Point in Mobile Boarding Passes
I'm in Europe this week teaching, along with my partner Carol Coye Benson, a private payments workshop. This is the first time we've done this in Europe - and we're looking forward to it!Flying over on United Airlines, I couldn't help but notice...
Pay With A Tweet – A Social Payment System
"Pay with a Tweet - A social payment system." These aren't my words. Instead, it is the name of a new payment concept developed by an interactive advertising agency called Innovative Thunder. Given the work we've been doing on social payments...
The End of Interchange?
There, did I get your attention? ... Tonight's headlines say it even more clearly - see this Wall St. Journal story titled "Merchants Win Debit-Card Fee Battle". Or, see this post on PaymentsNews.com about the Durbin compromise announced earlier...
Getting Real About Durbin
I’ve been amazed by what I’ve been reading of late from the “analyst” firms commenting on the Durbin Amendment. A lot of what I’ve seen makes me wonder whether these folks should turn in their analyst licenses and simply register as paid...
Congratulations to the 2010 FWASF Scholarship Recipients!
Today the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco (FWASF) hosted its annual Scholarship Luncheon. Two undergraduates and six graduate students from six Bay Area schools received a total of $70,000 in scholarships. I am on the FWA board...
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Payment Platforms Stand To Gain As Consumers And SMBs Push For Smarter Financial Solutions, New Marqeta Research Finds
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TreviPay Powers Walmart Business Pay By Invoice Offering
"TreviPay, a fully managed B2B payments platform, has collaborated with Walmart Business to launch the next phase of the retailer’s Pay By Invoice program. The program enables eligible business customers to access a line of credit with 30-day net terms, powered by...
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