Editorial Director, Payments Group & Editor-in-Chief, PaymentsSource

Jeffrey Green is Editorial Director-Payments Group and Editor-in-Chief of PaymentsSource, the flagship magazine of SourceMedia’s Payments Group. He has covered the payments industry as a journalist for 14 years, including as editor of Bank Network News and its successor ATM&Debit News. û ûBefore joining SourceMedia in 1996, Mr. Green spent nearly a decade writing about health care administration issues for American Hospital Publishing Inc., then the for-profit publishing subsidiary of the American Hospital Association. û ûMr. Green graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a minor in political science.

The Unintuitive Ups and Downs of Credit and Debit Volumes
May 14, 2012 Credit and debit sales volumes have been crisscrossing over the past 17 months, but without an obvious explanation.

MasterCard Plans PayPass Wallet Services
May 8, 2012 MasterCard plans to launch PayPass Wallet Services later this year to enable bank and merchant customers to allow purchases in...

Rise In Same-Store Sales Helps Propel Heartland's Q1 Earnings
May 1, 2012 Heartland Payment Systems' first-quarter earnings benefited from an economic recovery boost that helped improve same-store...

InComm Wins Jury Ruling in Patent Dispute with Blackhawk Network
March 6, 2012 A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin last week returned a unanimous verdict finding...

NetSpend, 7-Eleven Announce Prepaid Card Distribution Agreement
January 25, 2012 The prepaid card marketer NetSpend has entered into a distribution agreement to sell its Visa prepaid cards at 5,000 7-Eleven...

PayNearMe to Go Mobile to Expand Its Cash-Pay Service
January 20, 2012 An alternative payments company that lets users make electronic payments in cash is planning to quickly expand its user base...

Intuit Updates GoPayment Mobile Card Reader in Canada Push
January 10, 2012 Intuit is taking its GoPayment mobile card reader to Canada and is redesigning the product to make it more appealing to use.

Startup Aims to Let Shoppers Use Gift Cards at Multiple Merchants
December 28, 2011 A California start-up is building what it calls the "Visa of prepaid." But it has a long ways to go before it becomes a...

Online Payments Shifting from Debit to Credit Cards, Report Finds
November 28, 2011 And in good news for the economy, online spending over the Thanksgiving weekend was dramatically higher than last year.

Intuit Prepaid Card to Allow Unbanked to Accept Mobile Card Payments
November 23, 2011 Soon, even unbanked consumers can accept payment cards. Intuit plans to launch a prepaid card account that merchants may use...