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B2B Payments
How NVoicePay is Trying to Solve Pain Points in the Enterprise Payments Space
September 26, 2014

Everyone wants things to be simpler – especially when it comes to payments. Karla Freide CEO/Founder of NVoicePay, believes in solutions that start with giving customers control of their payments in a simple workflow process.  Karla sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to explain...

Mobile
Who Uses Google Wallet?
September 26, 2014

From its beginning back in May 2011, NFC-using Google Wallet has struggled to get customers, having to overcome a shortage of retailers supporting it and an even smaller list of phones supporting it. The Guardian decided to try and quantify how many are using it...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay Retaining More Card Data Than It Claimed?
September 26, 2014

The security system associated with the soon-to-be-released Apple Pay has been nearly universally praised as a significant advance in helping mobile payments go mainstream. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Mobile Commerce
So Will Apple Pay Really Ignite? (Paul Purcell Isn’t So Sure)
September 26, 2014

It can seem in the three weeks since Apple Pay has rolled out, that the payments ecosystem has been in a competition to win the title of “Most Enthusiastic Apple Pay fan;”  a competition that ensued when a certain Cupertino company entered the mobile payments/NFC...

Alternative Finances
Square To Now Accept Bitcoin And Apple Pay
September 26, 2014

Coming soon to a Square merchant near you: the ability to pay with bitcoin or Apple Pay.  Square CEO Jack Dorsey recently told reporters in Square’s new Canadian home-base that Square’s next reader will come equipped to handle both alternative payment methods. Get the Full...

Merchant Innovation
MasterCard Hosts Innovation Forum In Singapore
September 26, 2014

This week, 400 hundred MasterCard partners from Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa gathered in Singapore to talk payments innovation. 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...

The Basement Drops Another Floor
September 26, 2014

Just a few weeks ago we thought that a $500 bitcoin floor was the bottom of the barrel, but bitcoin has dipped even further, reaching a new low, down in the 400’s. This week bitcoin took a long fall down to $410.61 from $450.68.

Can Apple Pay Shape The Future of Omnicommerce?
September 26, 2014

Apple Pay has the potential to influence the direction of a lot of things in payments, and today, we’d like to add “omnichannel” to the list. While the tech giant is brand new to payments, its ability to mobilize an ecosystem is above all others....

Hmmm
Visa’s View Of A B2B Future
September 26, 2014

What do you do when you’re the largest payments company on the planet and every aspect of payments is undergoing huge global change? You try and identify the biggest and most threatening of these changes and try to either partner with it or do what...