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The Nuts And Bolts Of Earnings Season
February 02, 2015

We don’t know about you, but we think that the payments earnings season, so far, has given us all a ringside seat into the future of our business and how some of the biggest players in the space see their role in it. Get the...

MasterCard CEO Touts Security Features of Apple Pay, MasterPass
February 02, 2015

Higher consumer spending helped MasterCard to a strong fourth quarter earnings Friday (Jan. 30), posting a better-than-anticipated profit increase of 29 percent to $801 million, year over year. Quarterly results also included a 14-percent revenue increase to $2.4 billion. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Dutch Court Approves Data Hacker’s Extradition to the US
February 02, 2015

A Dutch judge has approved the extradition of a Russian man accused of a multi-million dollar corporate hack to the US. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Tapping Into The Two Screen Consumer
January 31, 2015

The list of things in the world that one can reasonably expect to pay $9 million dollars a minute for is short, and if we had to guess, we’d say that many of those things are those that can only be paid for using bitcoin...

Ant Financial To IPO In 2016
January 30, 2015

Bloomberg reports today (January 30) that Ant Financial, which includes Alipay payments, will go public in 2016. 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...

Bed Bath & Beyond Finds Its Money in the Latter
January 30, 2015

The big news in Bed Bath & Beyond’s Q3 report was not the earnings themselves but where they were coming from: online. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

California Startup SimpleFi Hopes to Challenge Payday Lenders with Employee Targeting
January 30, 2015

The payday loan industry in the last few years has taken its lumps from both the public and from federal and state governments. New regulations have driven businesses out of the payday loan game, as well as limiting the interest rate markups that existing ones...

Earnings Lollapalooza
January 30, 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015 kept the analysts on their toes and close to the coffee machine as Alibaba, Amazon, Google, and Visa, among others all reported their latest earnings. We listened in, did our analysis and now have our take on what each said about...

US Can Boost Cybersecurity Law with EMV & Dynamic CVV
January 30, 2015

The Personal Data Notification & Protection Act, unveiled earlier this month to the Federal Trade Commission, would set a national standard for how companies respond to cybersecurity breaches. But it may not be the quintessential solution in data protection – not without the implementation of...