Tencent and others have joined The People's Bank of China and banned accountholders from engaging in Bitcoin-related activity. That caused the price of bitcoin to drop - The PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price Index can show you how much. Between that and a search to replace the...
FIS is starting 2014 with a strong quarter and is making plans to serve under-banked mobile customers.
Hmm. While overall smartphone shipments jumped 33 percent for first three months of the year, competition from second-tier smartphone providers cut into industry leader Samsung’s market share for the first time since 2009. Check out how Apple and other handset manufacturers fared.
Fuel card provider FleetCor announced two international deals while reporting strong first quarter earnings at market close yesterday. One of the deals, involving Shell in Germany, gives the company a needed presence in continental Europe as it looks.
The application allows customers to safely store eligible payment and gift cards on their smartphones and make purchases directly from the phone by simply holding it up to contactless payment terminals.
With the restaurant app, consumers will have multiple options to pay right at the table.
Passengers will be able to receive information and offers through Passbook.
T-Mobile will offer prepaid cards through the Allpoint network, which would offer surcharge-free ATMs at 43,000 locations.
MasterCard Inc. this morning reported a 10% increase in worldwide first-quarter purchase volume, to $759 billion from $690 billion a year earlier, as the number of MasterCard- and Maestro-branded cards jumped over the 2 billion mark. Gross dollar value of MasterCard sales reached $1.05 trillion,...