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BofA Merrill Boosts Global Cards
November 05, 2014

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added some significant new global features for its B2B cards, including expanded country footprints (adding Guatemala and Turkey), real-time account management and integrated global data consolidation in Hong Kong and India, additional B2B payment options in 27 more countries...

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Loop Releases Card Case
November 04, 2014

A new, flashy and powerful competitor entering any arena can have any number of effects on the gladiators already slugging it out, a situation that the announcement and launch of Apple Pay has illustrated in real-time in payments over the last ten or so weeks....

Peter Thiel Picks Google Over Apple Pay
November 04, 2014

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Why The USA Today Says CurrentC Is Like The Three Stooges
October 31, 2014

USA Today has weighed in on the Apple Pay MCX CurrentC issue and is not pulling any punches. MCX seems to be what would have happened had “the Three Stooges had been given the assignment of introducing a new and safer way for consumers to...

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Bitcoin Tracker | Week 47 | Bitcoin Haunted By The Ghost Of Falling Prices
October 31, 2014

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Apple Pay By The Numbers |  1 Million Cards In 72 Hours And Other A-Mazing...
October 31, 2014

Never let it be said that Apple doesn’t know how to launch a product.  As October ends, Apple can report 1+ million downloads of its new digital wallet in just three days, a milestone that took Dunkin’ Donuts 6 weeks to achieve and Starbucks even...

When’s A Token Not A Token?
October 31, 2014

There are three things that consumers, merchants, issuers and card networks all want from a payments experience: that it be secure, that it be easy to use and that it be available to consumers at all of the places they want to shop. The payments...

B2B Payments
FleetCor Reports 31 Percent Revenue Growth
October 31, 2014

As if more evidence was needed that the fleet card business is alive and well, segment leader FleetCor Technologies reported Thursday (Oct. 30) that its third-quarter revenues jumped 31 percent to $295.3 million and its net income grew 21 percent to $95.5 million. Get the...

B2B Payments
WEX Comes Off Q3 With Strong Results
October 30, 2014

WEX announced its third quarter earnings, which continued to demonstrate strength as WEX’s hold in the fleet (and more recently health care) sectors expands.  The company reported total revenue up 16 percent  to $221.1 million from $191.5 million during the same quater of last year....