Payment Methods

Money Laundering Probe May End Citigroup’s Banamex USA Unit
June 02, 2015

Citigroup may wind down its Banamex USA operations as a part of a settlement with U.S. regulators amid allegations that the California-based unit has been beset by weak money laundering controls. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

How Payments Execs Want To Recast The Value Chain
June 02, 2015

As the payments industry becomes more sophisticated, payments executives say they’re more interested in disrupting the payments value chain, including cutting out the number of middlemen involved in the payments process, according to results from a new report from ACI Worldwide and Ovum. Get the...

News
NFC Market at Almost 12 Billion Units in 2015
June 02, 2015

NFC technology is discreetly spreading across the world like wildfire. A recent report published by Semico Research is revealing that NFC growth in mobile devices, wearables and cars will fuel a 15 percent CAGR from 2014 to 2020. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Blockchain Wallet Security Flaw Misroutes $8K Worth Of Bitcoins
June 02, 2015

Blockchain, the bitcoin wallet company, recently discovered it had sent $8,000 worth of bitcoins to a wrong address, which was a result of what the company called a security bug in its Android wallets. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Mobile Commerce
Chase Goes Live On clearXchange
June 02, 2015

JPMorgan Chase has officially made its way onto the clearXchange payments network, a multi-bank P2P transfer network — a group that Chase helped form four years ago. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Android Pay Makes Way To Cashless Vending Machines
June 02, 2015

Cantaloupe Systems, the mobile and cloud-based technology company focused on cashless vending, announced Monday (June 1) that it now supports Android Pay. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Public Gets Its First Look At Pinterest’s “Buy” Button
June 02, 2015

Yesterday (June 1) at MIT’s EmTech Digital conference, the world got its first look at how they will be able to buy with Pinterest. The company’s head of partnerships, Tim Kendall, took the crowd through a mock-up of how Pinterest’s forthcoming action button is rolling out....

Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts Gets Life In Prison
June 01, 2015

Calling the Silk Road “an assault on the public health of our communities,” Federal Judge Katherine Forrest sentenced 31-year-old Ross Ulbricht to life in prison for his role in creating the Silk Road — the bitcoin-ran online drug marketplace that funneled through billions of dollars for...

International
American Express President Ed Gilligan Dies Unexpectedly
June 01, 2015

Edward Gilligan, president of American Express for the past two years, died after becoming seriously ill on a flight back to New York from a business trip on Friday (May 29), the company said in a statement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...