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Big Value For Visa Europe, Big Progress For The Blockchain And Big Trouble For Snapchat
August 24, 2015

Between Apple’s falling share prices, Amazon’s HR woes and the great Ashley Madison data dump of 2015, last week was an all-around great time for gossip in America. And with so much scurrilous (and potentially spurious) data floating free in cyberspace, it might have been...

Making Payments Easy For Mobile Merchants
August 24, 2015

Small, mobile merchants want one and only one thing: a simple way to take their customer’s favorite payments methods. Flint CEO Greg Goldfarb describes how he thinks he's cracked the code for mobile merchants and their interest in becoming more integrated with Apple Pay and...

Dog Commerce: The Multibillion-Dollar Industry
August 21, 2015

How much is Fido worth to an average American family? Well, if you look at how much consumers shell out for their pooches every year, it seems those pups are supporting an entire sector of commerce on their own. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Bitcoin Gets Forked While Programmer Lives On Bitcoin For 365 Days
August 21, 2015

Imagine this scenario. 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, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you agree to receive marketing communications...

Merchant Innovation
Heeding XpressBuy’s ‘Call To Commerce’
August 21, 2015

Contextual commerce is the “next big thing” in payments as innovators create ways for consumers to scratch their buying itch - the moment they feel it. Murali Subbarao, CEO and Founder of XpressBuy, tells MPD CEO Karen Webster how they are taking buy buttons to...

Stripe Now Officially Supports Alipay For All
August 21, 2015

The Stripe-Alipay partnership that was announced last year is finally ready for the public to tap into. 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...

Banking Giants Back Online Lender Avant
August 21, 2015

Avant, the online lender that offers funds to consumers with less than stellar credit, has garnered debt financing from a series of big banks, Fortune reported on Thursday (Aug. 20). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

CFPB Fines Lending Club Unit $700K
August 21, 2015

Springstone Financial has been ordered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pay $700,000 to redress victims of deceptive credit enrollment practices. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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Alibaba Pushes Paytm Into India’s Banking Ecosystem
August 21, 2015

Alibaba-backed Paytm is venturing into offering financial services in India as a “payments bank” after receiving an approval from the country’s central bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...