Merchant Mobility: Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow
RSR has talked a lot about mobile payments, usually in the context of consumer mobility. Most recently we discussed the news that Apple would offer NFC-based payment capabilities on next the iPhone...
View ArticleA Surefire Indicator of Recovery?
First things first: there is no such thing as a sure-fire predictor of anything except heat in the summer and rain in the winter (in California at least). And when it comes to the...
View ArticlePainting by Numbers
If there’s one thing that the recent news makes clear, it’s that no one is really sure when the sputtering economic recovery will gain some real traction. We have heard all kinds of scary predictions...
View ArticleARTS Standards & Next-gen Payments: Chickens and Pigs
The ARTS (Association of Retail Technology Standards) has been an influential offshoot of the National Retail Federation for over a decade. In fact, it was an idea hatched before the NRF’s involvement...
View ArticleSeismic Shifts for In-store Payment Handling
Being the 800 lb. gorilla in any industry has its challenges as well as its blessings. Take VISA: one sure-fire way to get any group of retailers riled up is to have a conversation about the giant...
View ArticleVISA/MasterCard Settlement: Damned by Faint Praise
The News On July 14th, payment network operators VISA and MasterCard announced that they had agreed to pay over $6B to settle a complaint dating back to 2005, when several large retailers, including...
View ArticlePayments: Ground Zero for Omni-Channel Impact?
The landscape of payments is like quicksand beneath retailers’ feet these days. No sooner has a group announced a coalition designed to bring clarity to payments’ future than a technology company or...
View ArticleLondon Calling
The UK economy is threatened by a “triple-dip” recession, after the government reported a virtually zero-growth GDP output in January, the country received a credit downgrade, and the pound declined in...
View ArticleMore on Next-Gen Payments: Digital Vouchers
RSR partner Nikki Baird’s column this week (US Retail, EMV, NFC, and Mobile: Opportunity or Disaster?) talks about U.S. retailers’ apparent lethargy when it comes to next-gen payments. It’s a topic...
View ArticleUS Retail, EMV, NFC, and Mobile: Opportunity or Disaster?
Last week I attended the CARTES North America conference. It is an event focused more directly on credit card issuers and the technologies that support them. So what was I doing there? Well,...
View ArticleThe Lure of Easy Money
In the past several years, RSR (along with virtually every other industry focused research, B2B media, technology provider, or consulting company) has been observing and measuring retailers’ attitudes...
View ArticleThe Fraud Of Apple Pay Fraud
Last week I received four or five different emails advising me that “Fraud is Running Rampant on Apple Pay.” This is a pretty provocative statement and I felt obligated to research the particulars. The...
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