April 16, 2014
LevelUp’s March to Free Payments

LevelUp raised a lot of eyebrows in 2012 when it said that moving money should be free and that its mission was to reduce payments processing fees to zero for...

April 11, 2014
IdentityMind Partners with Jumio to Create Bitcoin Compliance Program

Earlier this week, IdentityMind announced at the Inside Bitcoins event in New York that they will be partnering with Jumio and launch its IGNITE program. The program will provide anti-money laundering...

April 03, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 18

PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Index:  http://www.pymnts.com/data-research/ . Link to live trading on the Bitcoin markets http://Bitcoincharts.com/markets/ . Follow 189 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations here: http://coinmarketcap.com/ . Bitcoin Tracker | Week 18 Where is the world is Bitcoin sanctioned...

April 03, 2014
Why NetSpend is Winning at Prepaid

About a year has passed since TSYS first announced plans to acquire NetSpend. Now in TSYS’s ownership, the prepaid card provider’s main challenge has remained steady: re-educating consumers so they...

April 02, 2014
Bottomline Technologies Buys Software Provider Andrea

Bottomline Technologies has struck a $48 million dollar deal to purchase Andrea, whose software platform helps financial institutions leverage digital channels to acquire new customers. “Our strategy is to help...

April 02, 2014
Will Wocket Wow Digital Payments?

By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) (https://twitter.com/epaymentsguy) Will hype alone be able to carry the mobile-payments market? A Shelton, Conn.-based company apparently believes so. It also believes the phone is unnecessary to...

April 02, 2014
Living Proof: Friction Kills Commerce

South Korea appears to be on the verge of getting rid of a decades-old security policy that has made competing in the global online marketplace problematic. At the heart of...

March 31, 2014
‘Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, Whose Digital Wallet Will Be...

The Fed’s new mobile survey data contains a treasure trove of information on how mobile payments and digital wallets are doing. To guide us through the mass of data MPD...

March 25, 2014
MasterCard And Monitise Form Digital-Payment Partnership

MasterCard and Monitise plan to accelerate the development and deployment of mobile wallets and digital payment solutions by financial institutions worldwide through a partnership announced March 24.