07 March 2014 Mobile payments are destined for the mainstream, but the payment method still probably has another five to 10 years before it becomes as integrated into the ecosystems as credit cards or checks. And over the course of that time, mobile systems will...
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Editor’s Note In this month’s Business section of the Lydian Journal, we publish a transcript of an interview the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, David Evans, conducted with two of the Federal Reserve’s leading authorities on the coming evolution of mobile and retail payments in the United States....
The recent rash of data breaches has many card issuers and their cardholders on edge, not knowing whether a compromised card could be used fraudulently and without their immediate knowledge. With new application programming interface (API)-based products from TSYS, issuers now can enable their...
T-Mobile is hitting back at charges that it’s entering the banking business. A senior T-Mobile official spoke with American Banker, saying in an interview that the company is not creating an online banking platform. Rather, it is only offering its customers a way to better...
Monitise will provide a multi-language mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) to customers of OP-Pohjola Group, a banking group in Finland. The service enables small businesses to conduct mobile transactions, create digital receipts and compile payments data for mobile traffic. Available on both Android and iOS platform, the...
By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) Much has been said, especially in trade press, over the past year or so about Microsoft’s decision to discontinue updating its Windows XP operating system, effective April 8. In making that decision, users of ATMs and point-of-sale terminals and systems, many...
Payments solutions provider TSYS has rolled out a product designed to empower credit and debit cardholders with new account-management tools. TSYS Authorization Controls allows consumers to control the use of a card account from anywhere, according to a Jan. 16 press release. This affords them...
Discover wants consumers to go out and spend despite the winter weather, and it’s offering a 5 percent cash-back reward on certain purchases as encouragement. The “5% Cashback Bonus” is eligible for those who make payments using their Discover cards at movie theaters, restaurants and...
