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Merchant Innovation
Remote Control Credit Cards?
April 25, 2014

What would happen to fraud if consumers were given the opportunity to turn their credit and debit cards on and off from their mobile phones – “activating” them only when they are ready to be used for transacting and giving consumers the ability to set...

Merchant Innovation
Bitcoin Tracker Week 21
April 25, 2014

Bitcoin traded in the in a fifty dollar range going from as low as about $450 and as high as $506, ending at $464 at about 7am EST on Friday. Our volatility index shows Bitcoin at a whopping 29 times more volatile than the euro....

B2B Payments
Taking The Mystery Out of Cross Border B2B Payments
April 25, 2014

It’s not all that easy to make payments to another business across borders, especially for SMBs. The process tends to be opaque and costly. The Currency Cloud is a small start-up with a big idea: fixing this for businesses of all sizes. PYMNTS caught up...

Company Spotlight
Risk Management Patent Assigned to MasterCard International
April 25, 2014

A patent originally filed in October 2010 was assigned to MasterCard International, Purchase, NY, according to Insurance News Net. The patent was developed by a team of five members, and offers “methods for risk management” in mobile devices like smart phones that can be used...

Mobile
Square Expands HQ Offices to East Coast
April 25, 2014

The company will be adding another satellite headquarters in New York City.

News
ShopKeep’s Point of Sale Software Raises $25M
April 25, 2014

The software vendor manages point of sale transactions for over 10,000 stores.

B2B Payments
Should Banks Expand The Small Business Credit Card Space?
April 25, 2014

Banks may now feel that there is some breathing room to take advantage of an improving economic climate to broaden their portfolio offering to include SMB credit cards. Here’s a look at how banks can turn this opportunity into an attractive return on one of...

B2B Payments
Powering Payments For Europe’s Railroads
April 25, 2014

Ogone powered a mobile app designed to help one of Europe's high-speed rail providers streamline its ticketing operations. Launched in December, it’s now used by 1,000 riders per week. Find out how and why they did it.

Alternative Finances
PayPal Testing New ‘Wearable Wallet’ for Smartwatches
April 25, 2014

PayPal is testing the new software in the corporate office coffee shop.