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Will Apple Pay Drive 20% Of Mobile Payments In 2 Years?
November 18, 2014

The full capacity of Apple Pay is yet to be seen since its September launch, but it’s predicted that Apple’s mobile wallet could make up for as much as 20 percent of the payments market by 2019, Investors.com reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Venmo’s Mega Bank/Biometric Platform Upgrade
November 18, 2014

Mobile payments app Venmo will now let iPhone users sign into its P2P payments service using Apple's Touch ID feature, and has also simplified signing up for the customers of four large U.S. banks with an app update that rolled out this week.

Visa Execs Weigh In On Token Services and Apple Pay
November 18, 2014

Visa execs Charles W. Scharf, CEO and Global Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Jim McCarthy sat down in two separate discussions to talk about payment innovations within the past year, as well as Visa’s token business and Apple Pay. Get the Full Story Complete...

Travelers Can Turn Airline Points Into Purchases At Airports
November 18, 2014

United Airlines has a new payment option that uses Apple iPads to give the airline’s loyalty program members the option to pay for food and drinks through flight miles while waiting for their flight, Bloomberg reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Dollar General Accepts American Express
November 18, 2014

Dollar General, the nation’s largest discount retailer by store count with more than 11,500 locations in 40 states, has announced that the franchise would be accepting American Express cards as a form of payment. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Mass Payments And The Global Marketplace
November 18, 2014

Managing the “dozens of ACH islands” that exist around the worldwide in order to pay hundreds or even thousands of payments to suppliers is typically time consuming and expensive. But that’s exactly the problem that Chen Amit, set out to solve four years ago when...

SEQR Readies Team for Expansion Into U.S.
November 17, 2014

Seamless, the company behind the mobile payment solution SEQR, recruited Beverly Cole as its new U.S. Head of Sales, according to a company release. Previously, Cole held various lead positions in finance and technology, and most recently comes form First Data, where she was SVP...

McDonalds: One Out Of Two Tap-To-Pay Hits Is Now Apple Pay
November 17, 2014

McDonalds is now reporting that Apple Pay is the payment mechanism behind 50 percent of all of its tap-to-pay transactions, which is more impressive than it sounds given the many years McDonalds has been accepting contactless payments. McDonalds has also been creative–although possibly impractical–about taking...

When Payments Picks Puppets
November 17, 2014

I’ll bet you didn’t know that puppetry and payments have a lot in common. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...