Is bitcoin the way to avert Greek’s debt crisis? Well, if you simply look at the price of bitcoin – which has been rising in lockstep with the intensity of the crisis – you might be tempted to say yes. Since late last week, bitcoin...
Ah, summer vacation. But what a foreign concept for the biggest mobile payments players. PayPal will soon be independent, Google is crafting a new platform to manage all of its users’ mobile payments data, and Alibaba is possibly acquiring another mobile payments player. There is literally no rest for...
Bitreserve has had a busy two weeks. The biggest news of the week for Bitreserve, of course, was the naming of its new CEO Anthony Watson, who was recently poached from Nike to serve on Bitreserve’s board. As part of this transition, Bitreserve Founder Halsey Minor...
As the most profitable and best capitalized company in the world, it is utterly unsurprising that the subject of what Apple is going to do next never fails to interest — a situation doubtlessly egged on in no small measure by the fact that Apple is...
We know what to do when cards are compromised – we cancel accounts and reissue new ones. But what happens when a consumer’s personal identity is compromised? That’s the topic we explore in this issue of The Digital Identities Tracker TM, powered by Oberthur. Find out...
Progress in payments, like most things in life, does not come all at once. Or at all evenly distributed for that matter — a situation made starkly noticeable by the different pace of change in consumer and business payments. If you were to whip out...
It’s hard to get really excited about shopping online. Which is not to say that there’s not a lot to speak for the experience – the $1.5 trillion Forrester forecasts Americans will spend online this year (an amount pegged to swell to $2.1 trillion by...
Alternative lending – as has been well covered – offers a sort of dual-edged benefit/risk to its potential customer base, especially when those potential customers are subprime borrowers. The upside is access to funds, and the need for that access is almost completely inarguable. A recent...
Starting with the American Revolution in 1776, the British have made a habit of successfully invading the United States. The outcomes have varied over time. In 1812 the British Invasion resulted in the White House being burned, and Andrew Jackson being elected President in the...