An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $5.7 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding,...
Well, just when everyone thought that New York would be Bitcoin friendly, they released the first draft of their plan that is anything but. Are these little town blues catching up with bitcoin? Get caught up on all the bitcoin news you really need right...
In another PYMNTS first, we’re going to bring you weekly scoop on ALL of the investments in the payments space – VC funding, strategic investments, buybacks, acquisitions – for both retail and commercial payments. This week we summarize all that happened in the month of...
Times have changed since Discover and American Express both helped the U.S. Justice Department prove its case that Visa and MasterCard exerted too much competitive influence in the card market by preventing banks from issuing cards carrying their brand marks. Now Discover has turned against...
Retail payments dominate this week, and data analytics and security, in particular, seemed to tickle the fancy of investors. Here’s what happened the week ending July 11th The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce $329 Million in financial activity was observed across a variety of...
Let’s play a little Bitcoin Jeopardy, shall we? We just gave you the answers, so tell us the questions. We’ll give you a hint. One of them is “How Much is Bitcoins.com expected to bring at auction?” See how well you do in this week’s...
Intuit is “PayWithCoin” enabling small biz and the CFPB is giving this crypto currency a look-see. One family is taking its vacation this summer to places that only accept BTC but you’ll need cold hard cash to buy any of the stash seized by the...
Square co-founder Jim McKelvey is taking what he learned about innovation when launching Square to new start-ups in St. Louis. He believes that all successful innovators need three things to succeed, unless they are in financial services. In this week's Innovator Insight series MPD CEO...
PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Follow 303 Cryptocurrencies here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 29 Bitcoin is still narrowly below $600 this week, at $597.46, up from $584.22 on June 12th, according to the PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. Despite the slight increase in trading...