Payments Blog

Mobile payments is the front-line for the battle of the brands. If we were looking at the biggest players a few years ago, we'd be talking about brands like Visa, MasterCard or American Express. The first companies that jump into mind today are Apple or Google. Microsoft proved...

John Dunne, Chief Solutions Officer at IR shares his thoughts on the fine line of innovating safely. FinTech is all about innovation, but how can your organization innovate without opening the doors to fraudsters?

Let's say you and a group of your friends have decided to go to tonight's concert and you've found a great deal online. What does the payment process look like for everyone? This is one of those classic situations where multiple consumers need to make a single transaction with...

At a recent informal lunch with IR executives in the Denver Tech Center, there was an air of expectation as always when the week just happened to be the last week of not just the month, but the quarter. A very important milestone for any company, particularly a public company...

HPE is placing heavy emphasis on hybrid infrastructures, digital enterprises and the ideas economy. Messages have been reverberating around the world focused on just how "IT strategy and business strategy are no longer separate; they have become inseparable ... every business is...

In the next two years, new rules are taking effect in Australia that will change the way payments are handled. If you're paying a bill or transferring money from one bank account to another, it typically takes three days until the transaction is finalized. After the new changes...

The entire concept of having a card in your pocket that you use to spend money is rapidly becoming obsolete. It just doesn't make much sense anymore to own a dedicated piece of plastic with an embedded chip or mag strip. We're already capable of making online purchases without...

Over lunch this past week I was asked by a potential client about just who were the biggest users of NonStop systems these days. The demographics have clearly evolved with the move away from NonStop by some of the largest stock exchanges and with recent M&A activity in the Telco...

In part one of this blog, I talked about how banks have been slow to issue cards with chips in them. They don't hold all the blame when it comes to the astonishingly slow EMV rollout, however. Merchants themselves are also well behind the 8-ball in terms of upgrading their...