Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...
Alipay, the payment unit of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, plans to invest CNY 40 million in order to create an online payment security investment fund, according to Telecompaper. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
PayPal also posted a blog advising users that there was no need to take additional action or change passwords. 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...
In March the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruled that Bitcoin would be taxed as property and not currency. In many ways this defeated the purpose of recognizing the cryptocurrency as a medium. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Well, it might not constitute breach news per se – or it doesn’t yet anyway– but the announcement this week that two-thirds of all online websites for the past two years had been vulnerable certainly was. The security flaw, dubbed Heartbleed,” had made openly available...
In 2013, ACH volume grew to almost 22 billion electronic payments, an increase of 4% over 2012 volume. A total of $38.7 trillion supporting consumer, business and government payments was transferred over the ACH Network in 2013, almost a 5% increase since 2012. Get the...
The Public Record Source, LLC, a twenty year veteran of the public record research experience, launched a cloud based screening platform, AccuRental. The platform was created to include a tenant screening web application that would change the rental property industry with new cloud-technologies. Get the...
A U.S. District Court judge on April 10 dismissed litigation accusing three leading card issuers of colluding to require cardholders to enter into arbitration to settle disputes instead of class-action litigation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Chinas UnionPay now has the world’s top-used debit card, having taken the honor last year away from long-time leader Visa, according to the Nilson Report. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
