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Bitcoin Tracker | Week 53    
December 19, 2014

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to...

New York Chief Regulator Cuts Bitcoin Startups Some Slack
December 19, 2014

Unveiling a series of proposed new virtual currency regulations for New York state—which will likely be copied by other states and potentially federal regulators as well—Benjamin M. Lawsky, the superintendent of the New York State Department Of Financial Services, said that virtual currency startups need...

Can LoopPay Make The Future Of POS Security Possible Today?
December 19, 2014

Exactly one year ago today (December 19, 2014) Target announced that its point-of-sale system had been breached and that the data associated with approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts was now available for purchase on the black market. At the time, it seemed...

Mozido Acquires CorFire
December 18, 2014

America’s greatest musical treasure Elvis Presley once sang that what he needed was “a little less conversation, a little more action,” a motto that the team at Mozido seems to have taken to heart. In a year-ending surprise, the Austin-based cloud platform mobile payments and...

Investment Tracker | December 11 – 17
December 17, 2014

Adyen And The Changing Face Of Cross-Border Payment  Christmas, it seems, has come early for global payments technology company Adyen this year. The Amsterdam-based business announced a $250 million funding round Tuesday (December 16), led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic, (with participation from...

Why Retailers Shouldn’t Stress About Lower Foot Traffic
December 16, 2014

The retail times they are a’changing, according to Shelley E. Kohan, VP of Retail Consulting at RetailNext. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our...

Festivus And The Airing Of The Payments Grievances
December 13, 2014

Every year there are a plethora of stories every year about the war on Christmas, followed by the plethora of headlines about why there is no war on Christmas. What all of these stories have in common is that they miss the point about Christmas...

Holiday Spending Myths Debunked
December 12, 2014

Think you know all there is to know about holiday shopping in 2014? Might be time to think again. While the headlines during the holiday season tend to be as unvarying as the seasons – “The Price of Gas Will Control Consumer Spending,” “It’s All...

PYMNTS Talks Back About … Apple Pay
December 12, 2014

Variety, it is said, is the spice of life. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...