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Visa’s Plan To Connect 500M To Financial Mainstream
April 20, 2015

Visa’s CEO Charles Scharf has got a plan to connect half a billion additional consumers to the financial mainstream in the next five years. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

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Uber’s Legal Troubles In Amsterdam
April 20, 2015

Uber appears to be having some more legal trouble abroad — this time in the Netherlands, Reuters reported. 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...

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Why AmEx Couldn’t Make Costco Card Economics Work
April 20, 2015

The possible terms of Costco’s new co-branded deal with Visa and Citigroup gives good indication of just why the partnership with American Express didn’t work out. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Google Scan-To-Pay App Turns Newspaper Digital
April 20, 2015

As much as the payments industry is transforming, the archaic print media has undergone its own rapid series of changes. 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...

Western Union: 60 Percent Of Our Customers Are Migrants Doing Remittances
April 20, 2015

Roughly 60 percent of Western Union’s customers are now migrants sending money back to their home countries — and the shape of that remittance business isn’t necessarily what many payments-industry people assume. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Mobile
At Long Last, Multi-Card Mimic Coin Ships
April 20, 2015

The Coin is finally in circulation. After months of delays, payment device startup Coin has started to ship its card that gives users access to as many as eight payment cards, the company said on Friday (April 17). Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Controversial
The Many Ways Apple Could Spend All That Cash
April 18, 2015

Most people at some point in their life dream about what they would do if they were suddenly super rich. We think of all the nice things we would buy, the good we might do and the various wonders we might work if we suddenly...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay Makes Headway With Canadian Banks
April 17, 2015

Negotiations with Apple and Canadian banks to launch Apple Pay north of the U.S. border could have the mobile payment service up and running in Canada as early as November, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Jack Dorsey Says Square Just “Wants To Make Commerce Easier”
April 17, 2015

Mel Brooks famously observed that it is good to be the king, but while few of us will ever intentionally pass up a turn in the throne, there are downsides to the crown. When the going gets tough, the king is the person most at risk of...