What a payment represents in 2020 will be much different from it does today, as it will represent much more than just the settlement of a transaction or the movement of funds. In fact, the market transformation has already begun, new research results suggest. Get...
The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta applaud the many efforts to standardize payment tokenization, except the part that there are in fact so many such efforts. The potential for confusion and, much worse, standards conflicts undermining token efforts—especially in mobile—is a great concern...
The launch of Apple Pay has started a lot of conversations about winners and losers in the mobile payments space. The fact that Apple Pay launched with an NFC payments capability for in-store payments has everyone high-fiving over the notion of an NFC dominated mobile...
From its beginning back in May 2011, NFC-using Google Wallet has struggled to get customers, having to overcome a shortage of retailers supporting it and an even smaller list of phones supporting it. The Guardian decided to try and quantify how many are using it...
The security system associated with the soon-to-be-released Apple Pay has been nearly universally praised as a significant advance in helping mobile payments go mainstream. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
It can seem in the three weeks since Apple Pay has rolled out, that the payments ecosystem has been in a competition to win the title of “Most Enthusiastic Apple Pay fan;” a competition that ensued when a certain Cupertino company entered the mobile payments/NFC...
Coming soon to a Square merchant near you: the ability to pay with bitcoin or Apple Pay. Square CEO Jack Dorsey recently told reporters in Square’s new Canadian home-base that Square’s next reader will come equipped to handle both alternative payment methods. Get the Full...
This week, 400 hundred MasterCard partners from Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa gathered in Singapore to talk payments innovation. 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...
Just a few weeks ago we thought that a $500 bitcoin floor was the bottom of the barrel, but bitcoin has dipped even further, reaching a new low, down in the 400’s. This week bitcoin took a long fall down to $410.61 from $450.68.
