Merchants And Tokenizationâs Sea Change Whatâs in a name? If its name is tokenization, then itâs confusion as a sea of PCI and network tokens descend upon merchants. Nitin Prabhu, PayPalâs senior director of the issuance, tokenization and loyalty platform, offers PayPalâs take on how merchants can avoid getting swamped by the âtidal waveâ of tokens headed their way. |
How Five High School Kids Are Changing Payments For The Visually Impaired What did you do in high school? This group of California students invented an armband device that helps blind people with a host of daily tasks, including commerce and payments, and without requiring expensive headsets or other gear. It won a Visa Challenge first place award and appears to be headed for mass production. Jaiveer Singh, a co-founder of the student team, talks to PYMNTS about the new device. |
The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles It's been 10 years since The Hunger Games published â and to mark the occasion, PYMNTS decided to create a "hunger games" of our own. We've broken the biggest and best-known names in the grocery business into 12 districts and ranked them by their strengths, weaknesses and secret weapons. We can't say who'll win, but weâve got odds on... |
| White Hat Hackers | How A Reformed Fraudster Now Fights Fraud Sometimes it takes one to know one. Thatâs the case for Tony Sales, the present-day director of strategic development at We Fight Fraud, who was once himself a big-time fraudster â as in serving time for stealing tens of millions of pounds. Today, he's helping companies catch people just like him. Here are the tricks of his trade. | |