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Remote Control Credit Cards?

Remote Control Credit Cards?
Remote Control Credit Cards?
April 25, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

What would happen to fraud if consumers were given the opportunity to turn their credit and debit cards on and off from their mobile phones...

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Visa: Q2 Revenues Rise 7% As Profit Jumps 26%
Visa: Q2 Revenues Rise 7% As Profit Jumps 26%
April 24, 2014  |  Exclusive Series

Visa missed analysts' projections for fiscal second quarter revenues, but earned a 26 percent increase in profits as spending on credit and debit cards remained...

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What Can $698M Do To Innovate African Entrepreneurship?
What Can $698M Do To Innovate African Entrepreneurship?
April 24, 2014  |  Cross-border Payments

The Carlyle Group is the first global private equity firm to close a fund that is focused entirely on building the middle class in Sub-Saharan...

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The Mobile Commerce Roadmap: MasterCard Takes Initiative
The Mobile Commerce Roadmap: MasterCard Takes Initiative
April 24, 2014  |  Company Profile

In this exclusive series, MasterCard’s Chief Emerging Payments Officer Ed McLaughlin has spoken with MPD CEO Karen Webster about the general state of mobile commerce,...

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Charles Duhigg And Creating Rewards That Are Actually Rewarding
Charles Duhigg And Creating Rewards That Are Actually Rewarding
April 23, 2014  |  Cybersecurity

Pop Quiz, how many rewards program are you a member of right now? If your answer is in the family of “ummm, I don’t know,...

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Taking the Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
Taking the Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
April 23, 2014  |  Media Center

Ask any merchant how much they liked their onboarding process. It's generally pretty cumbersome - but for a reason. Assessing the risk of a new...

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Walmart Banks on Cash
Walmart Banks on Cash
April 21, 2014  |  Commentary

Walmart got the entire financial services industry buzzing last week with its Walmart-2-Walmart domestic P2P play. But what everyone forgot to focus on is the...

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