Mobile Payments: Stresses for POS Developers and VARs
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
July 9, 2012
The payments ecosystem is changing and the impact of the convergence of new mobile payment types, mobile wallets and consumer programs are leading to new stresses for point-of-sale (POS) developers and value-added resellers (VARs). Historically, they have been focused on...
What is NFC?
Marc Castrechini | VIEW PROFILE
July 5, 2012
Industry analysts predict that 50 percent of smartphones will be NFC (near-field communication) enabled by 2015. In that same year, it’s anticipated that NFC-facilitated transactions will reach US$74 billion. Last year, 30 million NFC-enabled handsets, from leading manufacturers...
What is Genius?
Dan Dufault | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
A sea of change is on the horizon in the payments industry. Daily introductions of new payment solutions and value-added offerings are creating a constant, building cadence of entries that are flooding the industry. The deluge of new providers coupled with increasing demands...
The Future is Customer Engagement
Henry Helgeson | VIEW PROFILE
June 12, 2012
This is a very exciting time in the industry. There is an onslaught of new entries to the marketplace and, while emerging payment types including mobile wallets, NFC, EMV, and QR codes have not reached mass adoption, there is a major paradigm shift on the horizon. In fact,...
What are Contactless Payment Terminals?
Shannon Andrade | VIEW PROFILE
May 31, 2012
Contactless payment terminals have become the present and future of credit card transactions. Also known as "tap and pay," contactless payment provides benefits to retailers and consumers alike, particularly in the areas of speed and convenience.Contactless payments are...
Visa’s move to push EMV payments is aimed at capturing market share
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
September 2, 2011
There have been numerous articles over the past several days covering Visa’s plans to push U.S. merchants to adopt EMV-enabled payments. Visa said merchants who have at least 75 percent of their Visa transactions originate from chip-enabled terminals will be able to forgo...
The "Value" of Mobile Payments
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
August 12, 2011
Interesting report released by Juniper Research last month; the value of mobile payments is estimated to reach $670 billion in the next three years. By 2015 the total value of physical and digital goods purchased via mobile payments will have increased by $430 billion....
Report: Mobile payment adoption waning
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
August 2, 2011
Last week, Gartner issued a report stating that while still somewhat on the rise, mobile payment adoption is not growing as fast as anticipated.The Credit Union Journal followed this up with an article stating that a big reason for the hesitation is...
Is 'Being Google' enough to jump start adoption of the new wallet?
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
June 6, 2011
Since the release of the Google Wallet last week many industry experts and analysts have honed in on the idea that “being Google” is just not enough to make mobile payments become mainstream, but it could get the attention of the mainstream. And we concur. One of the...
We've got the goods for Google
Patrick Turiano | VIEW PROFILE
June 3, 2011
Over the past week we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the media focusing on Google’s announcement of the Google Wallet.Here at Merchant Warehouse we’ve also had the opportunity to discuss this topic with some of the reporters in the Payment and IT industries.The...