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Mobile Commerce
PayPal Rethinks NFC to Enhance Security
April 23, 2014

The company isn't planning on any initiatives anytime soon, however, the company president does believe that they are becoming less skeptic about NFC.

News
FIDO Alliance Appoints Samsung Electronics to Board of Directors
April 23, 2014

Both companies plan to work on a full range of authentication technologies for phones, including fingerprint and iris scanners, voice and facial recognition.

Exclusive Series
Apple Interviewing Execs for New Payments Business
April 23, 2014

According to reports, Apple is interviewing senior executives in the payments industry to help create an electronic payments business.

B2B Payments
Germany Expands Punctuality to B2B Remuneration
April 23, 2014

Punctuality is extremely important in Germany and nearly 85 percent of Germans say they take their appointments seriously and expect others to do the same. This is no exception in the commercial payments sector, as the German cabinet recently agreed upon a drat bill that...

B2B Payments
Shell Canada And EFS Launch Canadian Fleet Card Program
April 23, 2014

Canada’s fleet card market continues to grow, as Shell Canada and Electronic Funds Source this week launched the Shell Fleet Navigator commercial card. The MasterCard-branded card joins a growing list of fleet card products available throughout Canada, including from competing oil companies and payments networks.

Merchant Innovation
NetSpend, Western Union to Introduce Joint Prepaid Card
April 23, 2014

Both companies plan on launching the new card later this year.

Loyalty & Rewards
Orbitz.com Launching Rewards Visa Card
April 22, 2014

The Orbitz Rewards Visa card will not charge an annual fee and offer an additional 5 percent in rewards on travel purchases, along with other features.

Merchant Innovation
CVS Will Launch In-store ‘Bill Pay’ Service for Insurance Premiums
April 22, 2014

Health plan participants will be able to pay their monthly premium bills featuring a customer-specific barcode at the register.

B2B Payments
Tripwire Donates Cybersecurity Analytics To Penn State
April 22, 2014

Tripwire, Inc., a provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions,  announced a gift of a  cloud-based risk and analytics cybersecurity service to the Center for Cyber Security, Information Privacy and Trust at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). This  provides a license to...