Payment Methods

Merchant Innovation
Merchant Warehouse Becomes Cayan: The Payment Possibilities Company
January 05, 2015

Payment technologies and processing solutions provider Merchant Warehouse today unveiled its new name, Cayan™, according to a company press release. The new identity reflects the company’s bold vision and commitment to continued innovation in the future. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

Bitcoin’s New Year Price Plunge
January 05, 2015

Bitcoin prices took a nosedive this weekend falling a whopping 17.2 percent, in just 72 hours, from 311.05 on Friday to $257.61 on Sunday. That completes a rocky year of ups and downs for bitcoin, but mostly downs, with the leading crypto-currency falling 72.8 percent...

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Apple Pay’s Impact On Payments
January 02, 2015

Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest (Mallory attempted the world’s highest peak three times and was killed during his third...

Apple Pay
Big Apple Looks At Apple Pay For Parking Tickets
January 02, 2015

New York City’s finance department is looking for better ways for residents to pay the up to 10 million parking tickets issued there every year — and that may include Apple Pay, PayPal and Bitcoin, according to MarketWatch. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

News
One Word For Bitcoin 2014: Unpredictable
January 02, 2015

Bitcoin’s plunge in value during 2014 may have been worse than the Russian ruble, and its detractors have branded it as the year’s worst investment, but only some of them predicted it — and other predictions of how the cryptocurrency would do in 2014 were...

B2B Payments
Fed: Faster Payments Depend On Security, Standards And Bank Buy-In
December 31, 2014

The U.S. payments industry lacks common standards for interoperability, and that’s standing in the way of faster payments and better payments security. That’s the conclusion of a Federal Reserve-sponsored symposium on payments innovation, according to the Chicago Fed Letter. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Bitcoin Isn’t As Anonymous As You Thought
December 31, 2014

Security researchers may have broken Bitcoin’s ability to let users make anonymous transactions with the cryptocurrency, according to Bank Info Security. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay Comes To The Pump
December 30, 2014

Chevron has announced via Twitter that it will be working with Apple Pay to make it possible for customers to use their smart devices to purchase gas at the pump as well as other gas station goods. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Company Spotlight
Actionable Insights: Issuers’ 2015 Resolution
December 30, 2014

Data is only as good as the insights that can been drawn from it. And those are only as good as the analytics dashboards that make those insights easy to access and then action. That’s, says Paul Bridgewater, TSYS’ Head of Global Product and Strategic...