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Payment Methods
How Payments Security Drives Digital Transformation
September 06, 2016

Payments security has long been considered an add-on — something that is necessary but often a defensive move in payments. That’s now how James Jenkins of CA Technologies sees it. Listen in on the conversation that Jenkins and Karen Webster had about how payments security...

Mobile Payments
Swiss Mobile Wallet To Challenge Apple
September 06, 2016

Apple is facing a new competitor in the mobile wallet market, thanks to a joint venture between two Swiss companies, reports said on Monday (Sept. 5). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Waving Goodbye To Andela, Hello To Flutterwave
September 06, 2016

What could motivate someone to leave a Mark Zuckerberg-funded startup to tackle one of the hardest problems in payments? Iyinoluwa Aboyeji did just that in order to unlock Africa’s $380B payments opportunity. He told Karen Webster how Flutterwave wants to streamline payments to consumers and...

B2B Payments
Asia Closes In On UK In Forex Market Dominance
September 06, 2016

For weeks now, analysts have warned that the U.K.’s dominance in FX trading is waning. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, the U.K.’s share of the global currencies trading market dropped to 37.1 percent, reports by Financial Times said late last week...

Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s Fall Forecast
September 06, 2016

This week sees a social media platform for non-bitcoin users in creation, but the platform wants to stimulate bitcoin use, strangely enough. A complicated app closure and acquisition concludes with a newly launched Keza app, and we forecast potential bitcoin price influencers for the fall.

Mobile Payments
Accepting Any Payment, From Anywhere, Across The Universe?
September 06, 2016

The ability to make and accept payments for purchases is increasingly universal, and the future of mPOS may lie in universal solutions that can accept a broad range of payment methods. For the latest mPOS Tracker, PYMNTS caught up with Alok Arora, CEO of Mosambee,...

Payment Methods
Four Big Power Shifts For Commerce And Payments
September 06, 2016

For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old. 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,...

B2B Payments
HP Enterprise Software Sale A Guessing Game
September 06, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is looking to separate out its software unit, reports late last week said. 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...

CFPB
The Comments Are In: The CFPB And Arbitration
September 06, 2016

With the wide range of highly controversial subjects that fall under the CFPB’s purview, arbitration may come as something of a surprise. Unlike payday lending or prepaid card rules, which affect products consumers actually use day in and day out, arbitration only comes up when...