MasterCard’s Momentum in Emerging Markets Makes (payment) Innovation Move
PYMNTS.com Interview Highlights How the Economic Crisis Drives Payment Innovation
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PYMNTS.com interviews MasterCard’s President of Global Products and Solutions, Gary Flood who discusses how the economic crisis drives payment Innovation. Flood sees both technology and consumers driving solutions that will shape the future of the payments industry. When asking Gary about new developments from the merchants’ perspective he says, “Paypass has provided a great deal of capability for us… [and] the ability to speed transactions through on a checkout, as well as providing some ingenuity and innovation… So I think for us, merchants are big, they’re important; we’re spending a lot more time with them.”
“Paypass has provided a great deal of capability for us… [and] the ability to speed transactions through on a checkout, as well as providing some ingenuity and innovation… So I think for us, merchants are big, they’re important; we’re spending a lot more time with them.”
The full interview can be found here: http://pymnts.com/gary-flood-mastercard/
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