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Gartner Says Apple Pay Security Not Being Fully Used
November 24, 2014

Gartner Security Analyst Avivah Litan is arguing that many Apple Pay transactions are missing the value of Apple’s security approach because of POS issues. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Sephora Accepts Apple Pay In Store
November 24, 2014

When almost three quarters of a store’s customers are also holding iPhones, an integration with Apple Pay seems a natural moved. Sephora, whose internal data indicates that around 70 percent of their in-store customers are also iPhone owners was not able to offer Apple Pay...

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Retailers Lobby Congress To Fight Card “Cartel”
November 24, 2014

Last week, the Merchants Payments Coalition (MPC), which represents major retailers, hosted a box-lunch presentation to alert legislators about promising cost-saving technologies and the importance of doing them no harm.  According to reports, the rapidly approaching beginning of the heavily Republican 114th Congress has some...

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Should Apple Pay Be Regulated Like A Bank?
November 24, 2014

New payments systems like Apple Pay could offer an opening to terrorists, and should be regulated like banks, the CEO of BB&T said at a payments industry forum this month. Kelly King's solution? If they become important enough, designate them SIFIs [systemically important financial institutions]...

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MasterCard: Security Is Nice, Functionality Is Better
November 21, 2014

MasterCard sees mobile payment security as crucial, but it’s power is relevant only to the point that shoppers are actually using it. And with Apple Pay, that is starting to happening meaningfully. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Apple Pay: The Road To Ubiquity
November 21, 2014

The one-month anniversary of Apple Pay’s official launch prompts the payments ecosystem to ask where we were, where we are, and where we’re going. To celebrate, speculate and make predictions about the road to Apple Pay (and mobile payments) ubiquity, MPD CEO Karen Webster caught...

One Innovator’s View Of Apple Pay
November 21, 2014

We thought we’d take the conversation about Apple Pay and its impact on mobile payments to Silicon Valley – where it all started and where a lot of payments innovation happens, more generally. But the person we wanted to have this conversation with is someone...

Starwood’s CEO Dumped His PC for an iPad
November 20, 2014

Turns out, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple isn’t the only one all pumped up about running a company on an iPad, Starwood Hotels CEO Frits Van Paasschen told WSJ that he’s officially dumped his PC and conducts all of his CEO duties via iPhone or...

Tickets.com Rolls Out Apple Pay
November 20, 2014

Tickets.com announced yesterday that they have officially launched the first venue ticketing integration to support the Apple Pay service. The Bushnell, a new app, is now available on the App Store, where customers of The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Harford, CT, may...