| How The âDebbie Testâ Can Flag Sketchy Merchants
Just like people, merchants donât always fit neatly into stereotypes. In a recent interview with Karen Webster, T1 Payments CEO Donald Kasdon said that classically high risk businesses arenât always the ones to look out for. Kasdon said high risk is less about the category and more about the company â and he follows a few rules of thumb, starting with how the merchant fares on T1âs proprietary litmus test, the âDebbie Test.â Read More... |
| Mastercard And WeWork Make âHot Desksâ Pay
If a consumer is only using something for an hour, why should they pay for the full day? That line of thinking is what drove Mastercard and WeWork to create a new service for people who want to drop in and get a hot desk at WeWork for an hour or two â without paying for the day or the week. Mastercardâs Sherri Haymond takes PYMNTS inside how it works, and what new ideas it has spawned.
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| AEVI CEO: Open Arms For Open APIs
726 billion digital transactions by 2020 and double-digit growth rates: Heady numbers as real-time services and savvy consumers go quite well together, a trend that benefits merchants swift enough to seize the (payments) day. To get to those seamless customer experiences, open APIs are the way to go, as AEVIâs CEO Nelson Holzner tells Karen Webster in the latest installment of Data Drivers. Read More... |
| | PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™ | | NEW REPORT: Keeping Up With The âNitty-Grittyâ Of Subscription Payments
Consumers clearly like subscription services â demand has skyrocketed by 3,000 percent since 2013, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Conversion Index. But with rising demand comes rising expectations, including a choice of diverse subscription options and an easy way to make a switch when the mood strikes. Inside the latest PYMNTS.com Payments Powering Platforms Tracker, powered by WePay, Krish Subramanian, CEO of Chargebee, discusses the quickly changing space. Find that, headlines and rankings for 78 providers, inside the Tracker. Read More... |
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