Payment Methods

Why Barclays Is Banking On Bitcoin
September 01, 2015

For the past few months, Barclays’ name has been showing up in stories about bitcoin. And over the weekend, Barclays made it clear that its not backing down on its support for the digital currency. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Mobile Commerce
PayPal’s New Way To Make Pals Pay Back
September 01, 2015

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Interpol Battles Bitcoin Crime With Own Cryptocurrency
September 01, 2015

No matter how hard mainstream bitcoin enthusiasts work to give the digital currency a good name, there’s always going to be another bitcoin criminal to slander its reputation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Hill Ferguson — PayPal’s SVP Of Consumer Business — Is Moving On
September 01, 2015

It looks like former eBay/PayPal CEO John Donahoe will not be alone taking a long vacation post-PayPal spinoff. Hill Ferguson, who is currently product and engineering boss for PayPal’s consumer business, is bowing out. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Europe
Apple’s Good News In The UK — The Contactless Payment Cap Has Been Upped (Slightly)
September 01, 2015

Apple Pay launched in the U.K. around a month ago — albeit with one very sharp limit. Consumers, due to a cap on contactless payments methods (like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, contactless cards or just about anything that makes use of NFC) were limited to...

Apple Pay’s Heading Off To College (In Oklahoma)
September 01, 2015

This week the University of Oklahoma will be a payments pioneer as it becomes the first university to accept Apple Pay across its campus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

“First, Let’s Kill All The (Payments) Innovators!”
August 31, 2015

Dick The Butcher, in Shakespeare’s "Henry VI," famously proposed “first let’s kill the lawyers” as the most appropriate way to jumpstart the overthrow he was cooking up. Fast forward a few centuries and MPD CEO Karen Webster posits that The Clearing House’s (TCH) latest white...

News
Google Play Upgrade Leaks Android Pay Hint
August 31, 2015

Google is one step closer to the launch of Android Pay with the latest Google Play Services app upgrade, which contains hints of Google’s contactless payment service. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

International
MasterCard On Building Silk Road 2.0
August 31, 2015

As China sees slowing growth, to levels not seen in a quarter century, there’s a silver lining, says MasterCard. It lays out the three pillars that it believes will not only enable a stronger China and its trading partners, but SMEs, in particular. A new...