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Worldpay Headed For London’s Largest IPO This Year
September 18, 2015

Never a dull moment at U.K. payments firm Worldpay. After a summer of courting by private equity and its various rivals — notably Germany’s Wirecard and France’s Ingenico — Worldpay looks like it instead might just be going again on its own (walking down the only...

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Verifone Debuts First Intel-Powered mPOS system
September 01, 2015

Verifone and Aava said Tuesday (Sept. 1) morning that they are launching the first handheld mPOS system powered by Intel technology and geared toward enterprise users. The companies said in a release that the system, dubbed the Verifone e355 mPOS terminal, is based on Verifone’s...

iZettle Eyes The World Beyond mPOS
September 01, 2015

Sweden-based mobile payment firm iZettle is often compared to Square. And the comparison is certainly not entirely unwarranted, as both firms are known for essentially the same achievement: enabling small businesses and micro-merchants to accept card payments, albeit in two very different marketplaces with rather...

Apple Pay’s Heading Off To College (In Oklahoma)
September 01, 2015

This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. And it is clearly pretty proud of itself, as the blog post announcing Apple Pay indicated. The post referred to the ability to pay sans...

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...

Payments Landscape Shifting for Retailers, Leading to New Opportunities
August 20, 2015

Amid a tech revolution, retailers can improve customer service, data security, and margins all at the same time, an ACI white paper finds.

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How Earthport And Ripple Are Teaming Up To Make Cross-Border Payments Instant
August 18, 2015

A decade ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave birth to an intellectual debate with his declaration that globalization – driven by technology and the digitization of business and trade — had rendered the world effectively “flat.” And while that may have been true...

Survey Finds Majority Of Shoppers Browse Via App Before Buying
August 13, 2015

A majority of shoppers browse through retail apps before actually venturing to a store to make the leap into buying a product, a recent survey says. According to Apptentive, which conducted research involving 350 consumers last month, would-be buyers use apps in a way that aids...

Rite Aid Reverses Course – Will Now Accept Apple Pay
August 12, 2015

Rite Aid has reversed its previous refusal to accept Apple Pay and is now supporting the platform, along with Google Wallet, in what some industry watchers see as a troubling development for the mobile payments consortium known as MCX. In a release Tuesday (Aug. 11),...