Peer-to-peer lending service SoFi has recently announced securing $80 million in a Series C funding round led by Discovery Capital Management, with Peter Thiel, Wicklow Capital and existing investors participating. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
MasterCard’s prepaid card business in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) region experienced a 40 percent increase in year-over-year gross dollar volume last year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
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Despite recent troubles, including an unfavorable IRS ruling, a Chinese ban and the various legal woes of a variety of processors—some investors remain incredibly bullish on bitcoin. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Chief Emerging Products Officer for MasterCard, Ed McLaughlin, and Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster sat down recently to discuss the “state of mobile commerce” and the forces that are driving both change and innovation as part of The PYMNTS.com Mobile Commerce Insider Series digital...
About a year has passed since TSYS first announced plans to acquire NetSpend. Now in TSYS’s ownership, the prepaid card provider’s main challenge has remained steady: re-educating consumers so they understand there are electronic-payment alternatives to traditional banking. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Web-hosting company GoDaddy is now allowing “business class” users to send e-invoices to their vendors or customers using Dwolla’s application programming interface and guest-checkout feature, according to a report in Silicon Prairie News.
Only the bitcoin community could put on a happy face when the IRS led the way for tax authorities around the world to blow up billions of dollars of value for bitcoin holders. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
After a report that China’s central bank had ordered banks and payment companies to close the trading accounts of 10 bitcoins exchanges by April 15, 2014, the price of bitcoins has started declining sharply. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...