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Apple Pay Sneak Peek
October 10, 2014

A U.S. Patent application that Apple filed in late May was published Thursday (Oct. 9) and it provides some delightfully geeky peeks into what appears to be Apple Pay—or at least how Apple Pay was envisioned a few months before launch. Get the Full Story...

Alternative Finances
U.K. P2P Invoice Broker MarketInvoice To Reach Into Europe
October 10, 2014

U.K.-based P2P trade-finance platform MarketInvoice is expanding into Europe and reaching out to retail investors, according to Global Trade Review. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Alternative Finances
Alternative Lending To Small Business Slides As Big Banks Lend More
October 10, 2014

At a time when peer-to-peer mortgage lending in the U.S. is actually feeding loans to small banks, the situation appears to have flipped for small-business loans: alternative lenders are approving fewer loans, while big banks are approving more, according to monthly numbers from Biz2Credit. Get...

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Top-Ranking Mexican Bank To Use TSYS’s Prime Card Management Suite
October 10, 2014

Banco del Bajío, a leading Mexican bank, announced Thursday (Oct. 9) that it has licensed TSYS’s PRIME 4 card management solution.   Banco del Bajío will leverage PRIME issuing support to manage credit and private label card portfolios, as well as its loyalty and installment...

How Cyberthieves Were Able To Steal 500,000 Bank Credentials
October 10, 2014

More bad bank security news. It seems that a group of “Russian-speaking attackers” stole a wide range of bank security credentials using Qbot malware that was installed on some 500,000 bank PCs, according to a report in Bank Info Security, which cites a reported from...

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 44
October 10, 2014

The big bitcoin crash of 2014. That was last weekend and this week. Economist David Evans wrote a piece that put it in context. After 6 years, Bitcoin transactions remain flat, flat, flat. No other payments innovation on the face of the earth would continue...

Apple Pay
Icahn’s Ten Key Points About Apple
October 10, 2014

Investor extraordinaire Carl Icahn sees Apple Pay as one of several factors that is going to propel the Apple and its new iPhones. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday (Oct. 9), Icahn offered a variety of observations and insights into what...

Merchant Innovation
Amazon Gets Physical (Storefront)
October 10, 2014

Experimenting with opening its first brick-and-mortar, Amazon has taken over a 12-story building in the heart of the most famous shopping district in the U.S., on 34th Street in New York City, a block from Herald Square, right near Macy’s headquarters. Plans are to be...

The Shocking Stat About Online Authentication
October 10, 2014

Even though online shopper authentication systems—including Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode—have been around a long time, a newly-released survey suggests that only 57 percent of retailers are bothering to use them. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...