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University Now Accepting Visa Cards For Tuition Payments
June 11, 2014

Valdosta State University announced earlier this week that it will now accept payments for tuition and fees from Visa credit and debit cards. Previously, the university only accepted such payments from MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Merchant Innovation
PS4 Users Can Now Buy Games With Just Their Phone Number
June 10, 2014

Boku has joined forces with Sony to provide the Boku Payments Platform, a carrier-based billing service, for the PS4 account wallets in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

PayPal Founder Launches New Service (That Competes With PayPal)
June 10, 2014

PayPal co-found Max Levichin is back in the payments game, this time with the modest goal of recreating a consumer finance. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

News
Wireless Wristband Fanatics, Rejoice!
June 10, 2014

Barclaycard announced earlier this week that it is launching a contactless payments wristband. According to The Telegraph, the “bpay” band uses the contactless payment technology in Barclays’ credit and debit cards. Consumers can make payments by scanning the wristband against one of 300,000 UK terminals....

Mobile Commerce
Report: Only 3 Percent of Retailers Identify Customers In-Store With Smart Phones
June 10, 2014

While nearly three-quarters of retailer are planning to develop the capacity to identify customers when they walk in the store via their smartphones is a top priority for retailers, at present only 3 percent have the ability to do so right now, according to a...

News
Richard Branson Drops $25M On Cross-Border Money Transfer Start-Up
June 10, 2014

London start-up TransferWire – a startup that allows users to send money overseas at a far lower cost than what is traditionally charged by banks for the service – has received a shot in the checking account with a $25 million investment from Sir Richard...

Acquiring
What Apple Didn’t Say That Acquirers Should Have Heard
June 09, 2014

Last week’s Apple WWDC keynote has prompted a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking with respect to Apple’s plans for devices, software and even payments. Although Tim Cook’s and Craig Federighi’s keynotes were devoid of any direct reference to how Apple would pursue “payments,” (even disappointing...

Mobile Commerce
Census Bureau: Online and Mail Order Shopping On A Steep Upswing
June 09, 2014

While the rest of the retail sector’s growth is sluggish, electronic shopping continues to pick up steam, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Going by the County Business Patterns: 2012, the number of electronic and mail-order shoping establishments grew by around 27 percent during 2012,...

Exclusive Series
PYMNTS Talks Back: What Apple Did And Didn’t Say at the WWDC, Why SMBs May...
June 07, 2014

Apple’s WWDC showing sort of got PYMNTS people talking about Karen Webster’s piece on Apple’s potential mobile payments ambitions. So did reports that small merchants may be turning their backs on EMV for mobile and merchants taking the debit card fight to the Supremes (we...