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PayPal And The Global Open Platform
September 09, 2016

Over the last few years, PayPal has had the weird privilege of reading its own obituary an unusually large number of times — a somewhat surprising development given that the firm has been growing consistently for almost two decades. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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PYMNTS 11 (A Top Ten List With A Bonus)
September 08, 2016

As is often the case with the first week of September, it was a short week with a lot of compressed action. The iPhone 7 dropped, Mastercard and PayPal joined forces and Wells Fargo attracted $100 million worth of the CFPB’s ire. Get the Full...

Globally, Card Payments Up 15 Percent Year Over Year
September 08, 2016

A new report shows that, across the globe, there were more than 270 billion card payments in 2015, an increase of 15 percent over 2014. Such an increase, according to RBR’s Global Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, is almost double the 8 percent...

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Google’s Android Pay Now Accepts Chase
September 08, 2016

Google announced on Wednesday (Sept. 7) it has added Chase to the Android Pay family. 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 to our daily newsletter,...

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Android Pay Takes To The Web
September 08, 2016

Google, the internet search leader, has rolled out an update to the Chrome browser that adds Android Pay mobile payment support and also improves the performance of the search engine. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Lydia? A Bit Plastic
September 07, 2016

“Lydia. Oh, Lydia. Oh, have you seen Lydia?” Groucho Marx asked audiences decades ago, and the refrain might raise echoes again, in the unlikely halls of payments in France. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

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Visa Checkout Will Soon Be Available Via PayPal’s Braintree
September 07, 2016

Visa and PayPal announced on Tuesday (Sept. 6) that Visa Checkout will soon be available as a payment service for Braintree merchants. Braintree is a PayPal company that’s behind the payment processing for internet companies, including Airbnb, Eventbrite, Pinterest and Uber. Braintree enables merchants to accept...

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Verifone Crashes, While Other Stocks Eke Out Gains
September 06, 2016

The PYMNTS Stock Index saw a few mid-sized percentage gains, which may have cheered investors over the long holiday weekend. The smaller the stock, however, the more outsized the percentage gains on relatively little news. Among the firms that saw upward trends was Planet Payment, which was...

ACI Worldwide Amps Up Erste Bank Hungary Electronic Payments
September 06, 2016

One of Hungary’s largest banks, Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is enhancing its electronic payment services by working more closely with partner ACI Worldwide. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...