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How Lenders Get Away With Outrageous Interest Rates for Military Borrowers
December 30, 2014

A report released this month by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says loopholes in the Military Lending Act, passed in 2006, allow lenders to bypass some borrow protections and charge outrageous interest rates for military borrowers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Actionable Insights: Issuers’ 2015 Resolution
December 30, 2014

Data is only as good as the insights that can been drawn from it. And those are only as good as the analytics dashboards that make those insights easy to access and then action. That’s, says Paul Bridgewater, TSYS’ Head of Global Product and Strategic...

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Apple Pay Heads To The UK
December 30, 2014

Apple is in discussions with at least one major U.K. bank to introduce its “wave and pay” Apple Pay technology in the U.K. in the first half of the new year, but reports say the process has troubled by speed bumps over terms of the...

2014: The Tipping Point For Mobile Point-Of-Sale
December 30, 2014

2014 may have been the year that moved mobile point-of-sale from planning to action for businesses of all sizes across the globe. Deployments of mPOS began to take off and existing mobile point of sale players began to expand their product offerings and incorporate additional...

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Payments Tech Heats Up India’s Retail Competition
December 30, 2014

Retailers in India are turning to mobile payments innovators to gain an edge over their competition, experts say, as they explore how their customers can pay more easily and gain a personalized shopping experience like they do online. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Underbanked to Boost Mobile Payments in 2015
December 30, 2014

The rise of mobile payments has been gradually brewing in the global banking market for several years. Now, experts are predicting that 2015 will be the year mobile payments overhauls the banking sector, due, in part, to the tens of millions of U.S. citizens without...

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Re-Delivery Services Pose Problems For E-Retail
December 30, 2014

As online retailers search for ways to make deliveries as convenient as possible for customers, third-party services are trying to fill the gap — with potentially problematic results, according to ECommerceBytes. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Chaos Claims It Can Capture Fingerprints From Photos
December 30, 2014

Europe’s largest hacker group claims it can defeat fingerprint-scanning security like Apple Pay’s TouchID with just a few photos that show a user’s fingers, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

2014’s Worst Currency: Bitcoin
December 30, 2014

The technology may be fascinating and the promotion may be relentless, but, as a currency investment, Bitcoin performed worse in 2014 than any of the 175 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, according to Bloomberg View. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...