Link to live trading on the various Bitcoin markets Bitcoin Bubble Tracker | Week 2 Last week’s Bitcoin bubble literally burst on the news that China ixnayed Bitcoin as a legitimate currency. Little known fact is that more than 60% of the activity was centered...
Link to live trading on the various Bitcoin markets Bitcoin Bubble Tracker | Week 1 Bitcoin Background Every industry needs a good bubble and the payments industry’s newest bubble may just be bitcoin! Bitcoin was created in 2009 by an unknown person under the alias,...
Massachusetts-based mobile commerce solution provider Loop revealed in an exclusive interview with PYMNTS.com as part of our Breakthrough Series that it has secured $10 million in Series A angel investor funding (Jump to 0:30). Graylin hinted that later funding rounds will not be kept to...
EMV has long been touted as a superior solution for controlling fraud at the physical point of sale, but critics say that it just moves fraud online where EMV is totally ineffective. However, a new analysis of the EMV migration in the U.K. points to...
Link to live trading on the various Bitcoin markets Bitcoin Background Every industry needs a good bubble and the payments industry’s newest bubble may just be bitcoin! Bitcoin was created in 2009 by an unknown person under the alias, Satoshi Nakamoto. The online financial network...
EMV, as commentators have noted, affects not only hardware and software, but every card payment system, device and application. Rather than focusing on any potential expenses, however, Philippe Benitez, vice president of Business Development at Gemalto, suggests that stakeholders should instead consider the important elements...
Online and mobile commerce continue to be beset by issues relating to authentication, despite a variety of exciting solutions on the market. With so many options, how can businesses ensure they are selecting a technology that protects their assets, their customers and the online and...
Tokenization has been lauded as a superior way to address online fraud, one that could enable future innovators to bring unparalleled security to the payments ecosystem. Still, despite its promise, confusion about tokenization remains. To bring clarity to this conversation, we spoke with Alex Pezold,...
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of our MPOS Tracker, a monthly report designed to organize the mPOS ecosystem and sponsored by ROAM, we’ve released a new infographic that illustrates how the mPOS sector has exploded from its inception in 2012 to today. In just over...
