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Consumer Finance
Consumers Still Bummed About Their Finances
April 02, 2014

Americans in February were less concerned, though still pessimistic, about their current financial situation than they were at the end of the government shutdown last October, according to the Finance Optimism Index launched April 1, by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and AOL Inc. Get...

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StartUp RoundUp: Guess Who’s Headed to the Bank?
April 01, 2014

New ways to raise money, meet other businesses and battle fraud drove some very happy start-ups all the way to the bank. Find out who got how much and from whom.

Company Profile
The Ten Hottest Trends in Payments
April 01, 2014

Sure, security is on everyone’s mind these days, as no one wants to be the next poster child for data breaches. But other fundamental issues and market changes also are affecting the industry as well, and it’s important not to focus on one issue to...

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Tio Network’s Cloud-Based Silver Lining
April 01, 2014

TIO Networks’ cloud-based biller platform has faced some rough times of late with declining revenues. But it’s recent acquisition of Globex Financial Services appears to offer a much-needed silver lining to its plans for growth and improved margins. Go inside its latest earnings report.

B2B Payments
WEX To Drive HealthCare Payments
April 01, 2014

What do medical bills have to do with fleet card provider WEX,  except that it would take a lot of trucks to transport them all? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

TSYS: The Big Gap Between Mobile Wallets And Their Users
March 31, 2014

Use of mobile devices instead of cards to facilitate point-of-sale transaction is a goal that continues to challenge industry players seeking to make it happen. An upcoming TSYS white paper will examine the issues affecting mobile wallets and what the industry must do to address...

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PayPal Says The Future Of mPay Is Now
March 30, 2014

Have you heard? 2014 is the year mobile payments is going to take off.  Gartner thinks so, ABI predicts a strong year, and even Bain & Co. thinks the mobile-payments explosion is just over the horizon.    Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

The Taxman Meets Bitcoin
March 28, 2014

Only the bitcoin community could put on a happy face when the IRS led the way for tax authorities around the world to blow up billions of dollars of value for bitcoin holders. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Cross-border Payments
China, New Zealand See mPayment Competition Differently
March 28, 2014

China appears embedded in a competitive battle between state-run banks and such large Internet companies as Alibaba over control of the nation’s mobile-payments market. Regulators there appear to be moving in the banks’ favor. Not so, apparently, is the case in New Zealand, where new...