The big bitcoin crash of 2014. That was last weekend and this week. Economist David Evans wrote a piece that put it in context. After 6 years, Bitcoin transactions remain flat, flat, flat. No other payments innovation on the face of the earth would continue...
$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
“Innovation is not a ‘destination,’ but an ongoing journey to perfection,” says Rahul Mutha, Founder and CEO of Aurus, a payments solution provider. Aurus began in the basement of Mutha’s Long Island apartment – today, it processes approximately $4 billion in transactions each year. After...
Bitcoin is now just a big game of how low can you go with prices down to $374.67 from $410. PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price index. When looking at the bitcoin trading this week, unless one is truly risky, traders are advised to refrain from shorting the...
There’s only one thing that you can really count on when it comes to online fraud: as soon as a better lock comes along, a better lock pick does too. That’s at least the perspective of Drew Luca, Partner and Co-lead of PWC’s U.S. Payments...
Just a few weeks ago we thought that a $500 bitcoin floor was the bottom of the barrel, but bitcoin has dipped even further, reaching a new low, down in the 400’s. This week bitcoin took a long fall down to $410.61 from $450.68.
August 2014 While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because they view it as an enabler to the biggest merchant initiative of this...
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News about recent cyber attacks, especially on some of the biggest FIs boasting “rock-solid” security, has been nothing short of unsettling. Revathi Subramanian, Senior Vice President, Data Science at CA Technologies, recently sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to talk about why these attacks...
