Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which made a name for itself in the payments industry almost two decades ago when it led a class-action lawsuit challenging the “honor-all-cards” and debit card interchange policies of Visa and MasterCard, is at it again. The mega-retailer this week filed a...
Commerce networks used to be point-to-point. But cloud, social, mobile and big data technologies have made B2B interactions “many-to-many,” a report shows. Read More.
Link to live trading on the Bitcoin markets. Follow 189 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 16 Oh, there they are! We found those missing bitcoins! Well, at least $116M of them. But since the Feds froze the assets of Mt. Gox...
Hackers seems to be taking a break (OK, we know they’re not). But there were no major merchant data breaches to report again this week. Perhaps the plenty of activity around creating and introducing defense mechanisms is having an affect.
Pangea Payments enables international cash-to-cash transfers, providing a platform that is convenient and easy to use for consumers. Pangea Founder and CEO Rahier Rahman spoke with Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster in a podcast interview, discussing Pangea’s innovative idea and where the company is...
Experiencing a data breach is a bad enough situation, but how consumers view the event can be just as damaging. As such, prevention plays a key role in securing consumer confidence, and just more than half of consumers put that responsibility squarely on merchants, new...
MasterCard issuers will be able to choose and advance network relationships, and merchants will be able to continue to route transaction as desired without needing making significant technological upgrades, under a recent deal Fiserv Inc. struck with the card brand. Fiserv is making MasterCard’s U.S....
VeriFone Systems Inc. experienced mixed fiscal first quarter results, as net revenues were up 2 percent, but the company experienced a $16.2 million loss as it worked on a number of initiatives to improve the company’s operational efficiency. Revenues for the quarter totaled $436.1 million,...
USAA Federal Credit Union and Mitek Systems Inc. have a long-running patent dispute over the use of mobile image-capture technology. But that’s not keeping competitors from entering the space. Earlier this week, Top Image Systems Ltd. announced the launch of MobiREMIT, a new mobile application...
