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 —...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
As part of an effort to push its mobile payment app as deeply into retail as possible, China-based Tencent Holdings has increased the size of its minority ownership of a shopping mall and logistics developer. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
An aggressive technique to encourage consumers to make their car payments on time is riding a popularity wave among lenders. The technique is to install something called a starter interrupt device, which remotely prevents the car from functioning. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
