Last week at TRANSACT, the world’s largest payments technology event, ETA and Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, a leading provider of payments industry research, released the findings of the GS-ETA Merchant Acquirer, ISO and ISV . . .
FORTY UNDER 40 — Meet the young professionals revolutionizing the digital payments ecosystem.
It’s been four years since the first NFC-enabled smartphones with mobile wallets entered the marketplace. But contactless payments technology has been around much longer than Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. The Mobil oil . . .
The payments industry is changing, and the emerging software space is driving the products and services offered across the ecosystem forward. The payments experience is fundamentally shifting as software developers and new, tech-driven business models . . .
Data – the bits and bytes that power the payments technology ecosystem. Since the early days of knucklebusters and magstripe cards, data has always been a key to enabling electronic payments. In the early days, . . .
ETA releases updated version of seminal merchant and ISO underwriting guidelines By Christine Umbrell Keeping pace with the ever-changing payments space and associated regulatory environment, ETA has revised one of its most widely accessed publications, . . .
The case for ETA’s loyalty micro-credentialing program By Jeff Mankoff and Neil Axe, ETA CPP In today’s hyper-competitive payment processing marketplace, payment processing sales professionals need door openers—beyond price undercutting—to increase merchant profitability and customer . . .
COMMUNITY MINDED — How the largest payments companies are collaborating with ISVs and developers.
The average consumer spent $38 more than the value on their gift card, up $10 from 2016, according to First Data’s annual “U.S. Prepaid Consumer Insights Study.” Based on the responses of more than 2,000 . . .
How today’s digital consumers will influence merchants and the future of payments By Christine Umbrell Succeeding as a payments professional in today’s digital society requires going above and beyond simply facilitating transactions. It entails assisting . . .
