Following the panel at Loyalty Expo addressing the convergence of payments and loyalty (see Part 1 of this post), I had the opportunity to sit down with Leslie McNamara, Executive Vice President, Part...
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The worlds of payments and loyalty have always been linked, almost like relatives in a family that can’t be denied despite stark notation of their differences. At the recent Loyalty Expo conference,...
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The payments processing business has long been dominated by the largest credit card associations, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. The calling card for these groups that has successful...
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Earlier this month, TSYS, a leading global payments provider, announced it had agreed to acquire NetSpend, one of the top purveyors of general purpose reloadable (GPR) cards. GPR cards are better kno...
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While merchants are banding together in hopes of creating an alternative payment processing system which will reduce costs and put more control in their hands, there is an entirely more radical leve...
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In case you haven’t noticed, the payments landscape is trembling as shockwaves of change are being launched from different corners of the competitive world. Why should you care about payments wh...
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Today is an important day in Florida, not just because state officials might actually be able to tally votes from the Presidential election correctly, but for the fact that the weather finally changed...
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Being a retailer is not easy today. In addition to keeping up with merchandising trends, retaining employees, and battling price transparency and the debilitating effects of “showrooming”, you als...
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You can read all you want about emerging forms of payment, mobile payment and loyalty schemes, and even attend conferences to listen to the experts offer opinions on how the future will take shape. On...
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The next time you’re out doing your weekend errands, give some thought to what influences how you pay for your purchases. At the moment you probably don’t think much about it at all beyon...
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