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Discover Beefs Up Cash Back Redemption Options
November 20, 2014

Discover was a pioneer of cashback rewards when it began offering them to customers in 1986. Fast-forward 28 years and Discover still wants to make it easier for cardmembers to get that CashBack Bonus — anytime and anywhere. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

BlueSnap, First Data Partner For Better Global Payments Processing
November 20, 2014

BlueSnap announced Thursday (Nov. 20) that it had formed a new partnership with First Data to process payments around the world in a manner that provides secure cross-border payment capabilities for BlueSnap’s eCommerce merchants. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Loyalty & Rewards
BJ’s Rewards Cards Debut On-Demand Checkout Redemption
November 20, 2014

Membership retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club is rolling out a co-branded credit card with rewards that its members can redeem on-demand when checking out at BJ’s stores, the company announced on Wednesday (Nov. 19). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Mobile Commerce
Holiday Online Spending To Jump 16% To $61B
November 20, 2014

Americans will spend $61 billion on retail ecommerce for the holidays this year, up 16 percent from the same period in 2013, Chain Store Age reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Cross-border Payments
Russian Shoppers To Double Ecommerce Spending
November 20, 2014

Russian shoppers are expected to spend up to $5.1 billion this year on foreign commerce websites, twice as much as they spent in 2013, The Paypers reported on Wednesday (Nov. 19), quoting the Moscow Times and news agency RBC. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Apple Pay
Alibaba’s Amazon Killer?
November 20, 2014

As if Amazon and eBay needed more reasons to worry about Alibaba—which might also be getting frighteningly tight with Apple—founder Jack Ma said Thursday (Nov. 20) that Alibaba is creating an international version of Taobao, it’s E-Commerce marketplace, to serve shoppers in several languages, including...

Oberthur, Mobeewave Turning NFC Secure
November 20, 2014

Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies,  Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...

SEQR Partners With The Secure Gateway To Grow Mobile Payments
November 20, 2014

Provider of the mobile payment solution SEQR, Seamless announced that it has partnered with Newtek Business Services’ majority-owned subsidiary, The Secure Gateway, according to a company release.

Apple Pay
Apple, PayPal Both Made Major Watch Payment Moves Tuesday
November 19, 2014

When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...