Moven Nabs $8M To Expand Globally
Moven Nabs $8M To Expand Globally
July 02, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Moven wants to make it easier for users to manage their spending with their smartphones by offering app-based money management tools. Investors are taking notice,...

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Ghana Fuel Shortage Sparks Forex Subsidies To Help Distributors Secure Credit For Oil Imports
Ghana Fuel Shortage Sparks Forex Subsidies To Help Distributors Secure Credit For Oil Imports
July 02, 2014  |  Hmmm

Foreign exchange payments and subsidies provided by the Ghana government are helping to overcome fuel shortages that have hampered the country for more than a...

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Japan’s JCB Tests Contactless Payments Service
Japan’s JCB Tests Contactless Payments Service
July 01, 2014  |  International

Japan-based payments network JCB is to begin testing a contactless payments service in Tokyo this month, ahead of a commercial rollout in 2015. The EMV-standard technology will...

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Russian Standard Bank Offers NFC SIM Cards
Russian Standard Bank Offers NFC SIM Cards
July 01, 2014  |  Europe

Russian Standard Bank, Mobile TeleSystems and MasterCard international payment system have presented NFC SIM cards, which allow making one-touch payments for purchases and services using...

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The Truths and Myths of EMV
The Truths and Myths of EMV
July 01, 2014  |  Exclusive Series

The elephant in the EMV room: why should merchants even bother upgrading their terminals when mobile payments are what merchants really want? Well, because EMV...

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GoDaddy Set To Help SMBs ‘Get Paid’
GoDaddy Set To Help SMBs ‘Get Paid’
July 01, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Technology provider GoDaddy announced today on a company blog post that it had a new innovation designed to help small businesses “get paid anytime, anywhere,...

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Survey: Tablets Hold The Keys For B2B Commerce
Survey: Tablets Hold The Keys For B2B Commerce
July 01, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Tablets are a staple now for small merchants who want a better way to interact with their customers. But just popular are tablets in the...

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MasterCard’s Global Shopping Cart Patent
MasterCard’s Global Shopping Cart Patent
July 01, 2014  |  Company Spotlight

For all of you bitcoin fanatics who also love MasterCard, some good news arrived this week. MasterCard filed a patent earlier this week that would...

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Study: B2B E-Commerce Boosts 90 Percent Of Businesses
Study: B2B E-Commerce Boosts 90 Percent Of Businesses
July 01, 2014  |  B2B Payments

There’s good news for the B2B e-commerce world. According to a recent Forrester Research study, 90 percent of businesses that sell online to customers saw...

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