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Paypal, Lending Club Extending Loans To Businesses
March 23, 2014

eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit said it would extend a program that has provided “tens of millions of dollars” in working capital to businesses that used PayPal in the previous six months, Bloomberg BusinessWeek said in a report.

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Diebold Deploys First Cardless, PIN-less ATM
March 23, 2014

A new mobile-based ATM from Diebold Inc. enables consumers to complete self-service transactions and make retail purchases without using physical debit or credit cards, the company said in release.

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Amadeus, Continuum And RBS Offer Payments Platform
March 23, 2014

Amadeus has joined with Continuum Commerce Solutions, a provider of Dynamic Currency Conversion services, and RBS's FXmicropay, a foreign exchange provider to the travel, e-commerce and payment industries, to offer a new multi-currency payments platform.

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More E-Commerce Companies Go Public, Get Bought
March 23, 2014

More companies in eCommerce went public or were bought last year than in any other tech industry, according to data from CB Insights.

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Wendy’s To Let Customers Pay With Phones, Too
March 23, 2014

Wendy’s jumped on the smartphone bandwagon this week, saying most of its stores are ready to accept payments from the devices, according to The Associated Press. The chain, with 5,800 U.S. outlets, has been testing its program for a year. The app lets customers tap...

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Aussies Expect Wallets To Be Mobile In 8 Years
March 23, 2014

Most Aussies expect willets within handsets to have replaced their leather wallets by 2012, a survey by Commbank shows.

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Biometric Test Center Planned for Saudi Arabia
March 23, 2014

Saudi Arabia will build one of the world’s biggest biometric centers to increase security, according to a report in Arab News.

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Sionic Enables App To Pay With Google Wallet
March 23, 2014

Sionic Mobile has added the ability to pay with Google Wallet to its ION Rewards app for Android, available for free in Google Play, according to a report in MobilePaymentsToday.

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Visa, Pulse Find EMV Common Debit Solution
March 21, 2014

Visa Inc. and PULSE, Discover Financial Services’ PIN-debit network, last week reached an agreement to enable financial institutions that issue EMV debit cards on both the Visa and PULSE networks to use Visa’s common debit solution, according to a joint announcement. Visa’s common application identifier (AID)...