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UK Consumers Pick Favorite Non-Banks
December 09, 2014

Almost one-quarter of U.K. consumers would be “likely” to use an online payment provider like PayPal and WePay for retail banking services within two years, according to a survey of 2,000 U.K. adults by YouGov and legal website Out-Law.com. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Russian Payment Card To Materialize Mid-Month
December 09, 2014

Russia’s National System Of Payment Cards (NSPC) will materialize and start accepting payments in mid-December, according to a report Monday (Dec. 8) in a prominent Russian business newspaper, the Vedomosti. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Brits Returned A Third Of Black Friday E-Purchases
December 05, 2014

U.K. online shoppers have returned almost a third of the things they bought on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to parcel-return service CollectPlus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Braintree’s One Touch Goes Global
December 04, 2014

Mobile payments platform Braintree is now rolling out its One Touch payment service outside the U.S., adding Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the U.K., Mobile Payments Insider reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Startup Wants To Disrupt How Train Tickets Are Bought (Hooray)
December 03, 2014

As much fun as it is to ride a high-speed train across Europe, it’s just about that miserable to buy the tickets online. But Paris-based travel startup Capitaine Train is working to make the ticket purchase as smooth and quick as the train ride —...

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Amazon’s Tricky Overseas Expansion
December 02, 2014

Amazon’s overseas expansion into Europe has already hit a snag. Amazon’s emergence into the market was putting pressure on Europe’s postal firms, but now it’s been announced that the e-Commerce giant is dropping same-day delivery in the U.K. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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The Invisible ATM Skimmer
December 02, 2014

Cyberthieves are now bypassing traditional ATM “skimmers” and wiring directly into a cash machine’s own card-reading hardware through a hidden hole in the ATM, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Dec. 1). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Apple Pay, By The Day
November 27, 2014

Hard to believe it was just 30 days ago that Apple Pay officially launched and even harder to believe how different the ecosystem is today as opposed to what it was 31 days ago.  Some are firmly in the camp that Apple’s entrance into payments...

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Visa Europe: Save Us From Lower Interchange And Alt-Payments
November 26, 2014

Visa Europe has launched a publicity campaign to derail payment-card reforms passed last year by the European Commission that include caps on interchange fees, rollbacks of many of Visa's rules for merchants, and encouragement of new players and alternative forms of payment.