Are businesses that suffer payment-card breaches already reacting to last week’s push by the White House to speed up disclosures? For the third time in the past week, a notable breach has been publicly disclosed within 30 days. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Three months after examiners from the National Credit Union Administration lost a thumb drive containing names and account numbers of a credit union’s members during an audit, the federal regulator said it will reimburse the credit union for its costs in the breach, Bank Info...
As Russia continues to suffer under the weight of plunging gas prices, a currency in free-fall, and crippling economic sanctions, the efforts to keep out competing currencies and keep the black markets down have resulted in several Bitcoin exchange sites based in Russia being shut...
Effective on January 15, MasterCard has appointed Michael Fiore as group executive of Global Prepaid Solutions, according to a company release. Fiore will lead the ongoing development and execution of the company’s global prepaid strategies in his new role.
How does a company that relies on teenagers for the bulk of its commerce keep sales up in an increasingly competitive fashion environment? By taking the advertising to the one thing any teenager in America can’t bear to be apart from for more than a...
As mobile marketing and distribution matures, we can get a pretty decent glimpse of what the end goal is for companies with strong mobile marketing presences: control over all means of production, sale and distribution. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
Consumers increasingly depend on their laptops, phones and tablets to reveal the best shopping deals online, and the recent holiday shopping bonanza was no different. A new infographic released by Alliance Data Retail Services offers insight into exactly how holiday shoppers took advantage of technology...
In development since September, Twitter’s “Buy Now” feature is part of this third phase of social media’s integration into the economy of mobile commerce, and for now the company is starting small by limiting it to just movie or concert tickets. Get the Full Story...
One of the top IPOs of 2014 was Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending service that is disrupting the business of commercial lending. With share prices up over 45 percent since its IPO launch, Lending Club connects individual investors with startup businesses looking to make a...
