Merchant Innovation

Isis Rewards Amex Users For NYC Cab Use
March 10, 2014

06 March 2014 Isis is offering an exclusive 50 percent back in statement credits for American Express Card members who use their card in the Isis Mobile Wallet for a rides in a qualified New York City Yellow Medallion Taxicab. The promotion ends June 1,...

PayPal To Retailers: Ramp-Up Your Data Capabilities
March 10, 2014

06 March 2014  PayPal is urging Australian retailers to make a concerted effort to make better use of available customer data. Noting the ever-changing nature of the retail ecosystem, Simon Banks, PayPal Australia director of enterprise, recommends that using information sets that analytics creates can...

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Ripple Launches New Developer Portal
March 10, 2014

06 March 2014  Ripple Labs, the creators of the Ripple open-source, distributed payment protocol, is hoping to increase its market traction by opening up to developers with a portal designed specifically for them. Initially the portal will house the new Rest API, with plans to...

Danal And Billeo Partner Up To Expedite Mobile Purchases
March 10, 2014

06 March 2014  Billeo Inc. is partnering with Danal to launch a mobile-identity solution for Billeo’s XpressBuy checkout system. The new service is intended to make online transactions more user friendly by reducing the number of steps necessary to complete online without sacrificing consumer security....

K-Glass: Korea’s Answer to Google Glass
March 10, 2014

07 March 2014 Researchers at South Korea’s KAIST university have unveiled the newest innovation in wearable devices: K-Glass, which is similar to Google Glass. K-Glass comes with a special chip that expands the pool of objects the device can properly recognize without relying on barcodes or...

Braintree Waives Processing Fees For Startups
March 10, 2014

07 March 2014 Braintree says it will waive the standard 2.9 percent plus 30 cents in processing fees for transactions among members in its new Ignition program. The free deal originally was good for the first $50,000 in transactions processed and for a limited 1,000...

After Years Of Speculation, Bitcoins Inventor ID’d – Or Was He?
March 10, 2014

07 March 2014 Yesterday, after years of speculation – outlandish and sensible – the brain behind bitcoin was finally unmasked. Newsweek reports that the inventor of Bitcoin, known heretofore only under the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto,” is really Dorian S. Nakamoto. But wait. Later in the day, the...

Game Day For Intuit, One Student’s Financial Protest And DogeCoin’s Sponsorship Of Cool Runnings 2
March 04, 2014

Welcome to What’s Trending In Payments – a weekly look at the most popular, irreverent and important stories the payments industry had to offer over the past five days. Which companies grabbed the most headlines – for better or for worse – this week, and...

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Will Consumers Ever Accept Money-Management Apps?
January 17, 2014

Money-management apps offer consumers the opportunity to manage their money more effectively. However, adoption by users has hit or miss at best, as many aren’t that interested in creating personal budgets. Some consumers have a tough time getting into the habit of regularly using these...