Mobile Payment Adoption: Slow but Steady
A Boston area start up may have a breakthrough in the very slow adopting mobile payments market. Loop is an e-wallet that not only attaches to your phone like a case, but actually works with your...
View ArticleInnovation Project 2014, discussing the future of the payments industry
The GiftCard Partners team is a week away from packing up again and heading to Cambridge, MA to attend the Innovation Project. The payments industry event is sponsored by PYMNTS.com. GCP had the...
View ArticleStarbucks: Mobile Payments Pioneer
Everyone’s walked into (and presumably grabbed a coffee from) a Starbucks at least once. In many American cities you can’t stand on a street corner without seeing that Mermaid logo somewhere in your...
View ArticleThe #1 Potential Problem with Mobile Payments
Apple unveiled their forray into the already crowded mobile payments space earlier this month and it seems to have the whole industry talking about how Apple Pay and all of the other mobile payment...
View ArticleConsumer Impact on Consumer Payments, Money2020 2014
Last week GiftCard Partners senior management attended Money 20/20, the biggest industry event surrounding payments and payment technology. The team learned quite a bit on the trip about what the...
View ArticleGift Cards Go Virtual
We’ve spent some time over the last few weeks talking about gift card purchasing and gifting as the holiday shopping season heats up. However, it’s important to keep a secondary focus on trends going...
View ArticleGift Cards + Smartphones= Mobile Payment Adoption?
We are about a quarter of the way through a very intense holiday shopping season. It’s time for a check in on what consumers are talking about buying, and what devices they are talking about buying...
View Article4 Bonuses for Mobile Payments
Consumers have begun an organic transition into mobile payments and digital currencies. They are slowly filing cash, check, and credit cards right into the history book, next to the floppy disks and...
View ArticleContactless Payments on the Rise
Contactless payments, like Apple Pay are on the rise as more smartphones are NFC equipped. However, adoption is still slow amongst consumers. Ultimately, for now, real wallets are favored amongst...
View ArticleMoney2020, world’s largest event on payments
Money20/20 is the largest global event focused on payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce at the intersection of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology. –...
View ArticleConsumer Payment Choice, Mobile on the Rise
Recently PYMNTS.com put out its 2015 U.S Consumer Payment Choice Study which takes a look at the state of mobile purchases in the U.S. What Sarah Hartman, a Senior Director of Payment Solutions at...
View ArticleAll Payments Expo 2016 is Almost Here
In just 5 short weeks the 11th annual All Payments Expo 2016 (APEX) will take place on March 21-23 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, LA. GiftCard Partners will once again be attending this event...
View ArticleAll Payments Expo 2016: Two Weeks Away!
In just two weeks, the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, LA will be filled with hundreds of companies who will gather to discuss the latest trends in the payments industry at the All Payments Expo 2016....
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