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Exclusive Series
Square’s Many Suitors
April 11, 2014

The payments rumor mill is on fire with speculation that Square is up for sale. We thought it would be fun to take a look at the potential slate of Square’s suitors - what they bring to the table and why Square might want to...

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Retail’s Commanding Numbers, Paying Bills With Pre-Paid, Payments Match Made In Heaven … And Other...
April 11, 2014

How many trillions of dollars in retail sales were logged in 2013? How many consumers use prepaid cards to pay bills online? Or the percentage of entrepreneurs who’ve used PayPal within the last 12 months? If not, keep up with the facts with the latest...

Another Week Of Rough Waters For Bitcoin
April 11, 2014

Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...

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Fleet Payments Now Anywhere The Road Takes Them
April 10, 2014

To cover Voyager members wherever the road may take them, U.S. Bank announced their pilot program, U.S. Bank Fleet Virtual Pay, on April 9th. This program will enable cardless purchases wherever MasterCard is accepted, expanding payment options that are available for drivers while eliminating the...

Company Profile
Different mPOS Strokes for Different mPOS Folks
April 10, 2014

Developed and emerging markets are heading down two different paths when it comes to consumer use of mPOS devices, according to ROAM’s CEO Ken Paull. In a recent podcast interview with Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster, Paull elaborated on these findings and what’s next...

Company Profile
MasterCard’s View on the Mobile Commerce Game-Changers
April 10, 2014

In Part Two of this exclusive series, MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer, Ed McLaughlin gives Karen Webster the view from his perch on who’s doing the most game-changing stuff in mobile, which represent the biggest opportunity of all and where the “white spaces” are that...

BOA Joins the $1.6 Billion Dollar Club
April 10, 2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on April 9 ordered Bank of America Corp. (BofA) to provide an estimated $727 million in relief to roughly 1.4 million consumers it says were harmed by deceptive marketing related to controversial credit card add-on products. BofA also illegally...

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Read This, Then Develop Your Mobile Commerce Plan
April 10, 2014

ComScore just published its 2014 US Digital Roadmap which is stuffed with amazing data points. We’ve boiled it down to the 5 essential truths about payments, commerce and the US digital consumer and added some of our own key insights so you can plug and...

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Global Payments On A Direct-Sell Shift As ISO Support Wanes
April 10, 2014

Global Payments is refocusing its efforts on beefing up its direct sales channel as a result of ISOs abandoning it for other options. Could its recent PayPros acquisition help sure up this new and now critically important distribution channel?