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1.5KInnovationStarbucks Consumers In Japan Can Pay With NCF Pen
Starbucks has announced the release of an actual pen that consumers can use to pay at the register in Japan, according to...
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5.4KDigital PaymentsAs Banking Evolves, So Does The ATM
Evolving technology continues to provide consumers with new digital payment options, but does that mean the death of cash and the ATM...
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2.2KAppleNFC Slated For Major Upgrade With iOS 13 Release
Near-field communication (NFC) will receive a major upgrade when Apple releases iOS 13 this fall. While only iPhone apps were previously able...
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4.1KRetailIs The US On The Verge Of A Contactless Surge?
Near-field communication (NFC) technology isn’t exactly new. For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind...
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3.2KRetailApple Teams With Bird Scooters, Bonobos
To reduce friction for mobile payments for purchases such as scooter rides and clothing, Apple is teaming up with partners such as...
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8.3KPayment MethodsWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Credit, Debit Cards
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release, Wells Fargo said...
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5.2KDigital PaymentsWhy ‘Play Ball!’ Means So Much For Payments
Another baseball season has started, much to the delight of many consumers, including those insufferable and pretentious fans who consider football something...
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5.8KPayment MethodsNFC Forum Shares Specs For QR Codes Alternative
The NFC Forum, the standards and advocacy association for Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, released its NFC Money Transfer Candidate Specification (NMT) on Tuesday...
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7.5KPOS InnovationPayPal, HP Team On New POS
In a move to target small and medium-sized businesses and hospitality companies, HP has announced it has teamed up with PayPal to...
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7.3KSafety and SecurityRBI Releases Guidelines For Electronic Card Payments
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for what it calls the “tokenization” of debit and credit card transactions, according to...
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5.6KPayment MethodsToneTag CEO Sounds Off On Payments At The Speed Of Sound
Talk about cashless and contactless. How about payments made at the speed of sound — to be specific, using encrypted sound waves...
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7.1KSecurity & FraudNXP Rolls Out Privacy-Enabled Tag Chips For IoT
NXP Semiconductors in late September introduced its latest NTAG DNA tag chip, providing privacy-enabled, multi-layered security for NFC and IoT authentication applications....
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7.7KPayment MethodsChase Pay Customers With Samsung Phones Can Link To Samsung Pay
JPMorgan Chase announced Friday (July 27) that Chase Pay customers with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone can link Chase Pay to Samsung Pay....
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3.8KPoint of SaleNFC-Enabled POS Terminals Numbered Nearly 25M Worldwide In 2017
A new report has found that the global installed base of point-of-sale (POS) terminals grew to almost 109 million units in 2017....
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5.6KAppleApple Set To Launch New iPhone Wireless Chip That Can Unlock Doors
Apple is changing a wireless chip in the iPhone that will allow people to use the technology to securely unlock doors. The...
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10.3KPayment MethodsSamsung Pay And PayPal Power In-Store Payments
Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move...
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10.3KPayment MethodsHow Contactless Payments Drive Retail’s In-Store Design
How to make contact with the idea of contactless? How to bring the mobile wallet to the U.S. in a way that...
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6.3KRetailSMBs Turn To Mobile Devices To Accept Payments In Face-To-Face Environments
The retail point-of-sale (POS) terminal market is no stagnant business. While it is currently a $15 billion industry, Global Market Insights is...
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5.9KStartup Check-InFitPay Launches Contactless Payment Bitcoin Coin
What if bitcoin were actually a coin? FitPay has made it one. Flip, a new contactless payment device that the startup just...
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17.8KPayments InnovationMobile Wallets: Where’s The S-Curve?
The classic product lifecycle that all of us had drilled into our heads in business school tells us that at the three-year...
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8.1KRetailLL Bean Brings The Blockchain Into Outdoor Apparel
One of the newest technologies in FinTech is coming to one of the oldest American outdoor gear brands. Now arriving at L.L....
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9.3KBitcoinNXT-ID Enables Pay With Bitcoin
Fit Pay, a unit of NXT-ID, announced news on Thursday (Feb. 8) of the launch of FlipTM, a contactless payment device for...
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7.5KPoint of SaleVerifone Introduces Remote Payments
In an effort to enable merchants to accept payments from nearly anywhere in their stores, Verifone launched its e280 mobile point-of-sale (mPOS)...
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20.9KPayments InnovationPayments 2018: Think This — Not That
In 800 B.C., when people wanted to know the answer to “what’s next” about their personal futures, they flocked to Delphi and...
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9.5KPOS InnovationMix And Match At The POS
No one knows what the future holds. In life, certainly, but especially in technology — and especially in payments technology. From wampum...
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11.5KFacebookFacebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
Facebook may be gunning to introduce facial recognition software for in-store payments at retail locations, as presaged by a patent application published Thursday (Nov....
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4.6KPOS InnovationUL Takes Testing To The API
On Tuesday (Oct. 24), UL Transaction Security announced news of the launch of its Web-Based Host Test Tool (wHTT), a payment host testing system...
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7.6KPayment MethodsWells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Withdrawals At Thousands Of ATMs
Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (Oct. 10) it has rolled out a tap-and-pay near-field communication (NFC) functionally that works with more than 5,000...
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4.5KPayment MethodsHelping QSRs Shake FOMO
Don’t hang the pictures on the wall or fix the siding until you know the plumbing works. According to Karen Webster, that’s...
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7.1KPayment MethodsVisa Powering Payments on New Garmin Wearable Aims to Stop ‘Sweaty Money’
Keeping up with the wearables/payments/fitness players is a workout in and of itself. Add Garmin to the mix with a new device,...
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10.2KPayment MethodsCommanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry...
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14.8KPayment MethodsPay By Sound: It’s Back!
Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for...
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5.1KPayment MethodsxPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle
A payments solution that requires micromerchants to buy — and then wait for — special hardware isn’t much of a solution if...
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28.6KPayments InnovationWhat Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with...
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5.7KUnattended RetailUSAT CEO On The Unattended Retail OS
Following the slow implosion of brick-and-mortar retail, what phoenix will rise from the ashes? Will the world be left to choose between...
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3.4KIPOUSA Technologies Eyes Public Offering
The payment technology service provider USA Technologies, Inc., (USAT) which powers integrated cashless and mobile transactions in self-service retail settings, may go public,...
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3.5KData DiveData Dive: Three As Edition — Apple, Amazon And Android
The news cycle — which was a somewhat chaotic place last week, with a never-ending series of hearings on Capital Hill followed...
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10.2KNewsApple Is Opening Its NFC Chip To Third-Party Apps
Apple will enable third-party app developers to get access to the NFC chip inside the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus...
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9.2KMobile PaymentsWells Fargo Announces Support for PayPal For In-Store Payments
Wells Fargo said Tuesday (April 18) that its customers will be able to use PayPal to make near-field communication (NFC) in-store payments...
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4.1KPayment MethodsCellum Rolls Out Payment Solution For Unbanked
Cellum, the mobile transactions solutions provider, announced Wednesday (April 5) at the SMART Conference a new solution aimed at providing financial services...
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5.0KPayment MethodsMastercard Rolls Out Support Of Samsung Pay In UAE
Mastercard announced Tuesday (April 4) that Mastercard cardholders from select banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will now be able use...
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4.5KPayment MethodsApple Pay Is Now Live In Taiwan
Apple Pay is now available in Taiwan, making it the 14th market in which Apple’s payment app is available. According to a...
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3.7KInternationalSquare Heads To The UK, Wells Fargo Hearts NFC And Ant Financial Finds Some Fighting Words
Samsung managed to take up most of the oxygen in the mobile room this week — and the big show included the world’s introduction to...
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3.4KNewsSamsung To Broaden Contactless Payments Access
Samsung Electronics is backing the Contactless Companion Platform in an effort to expand access to contactless payments beyond NFC-enabled devices. According to...
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3.1KMerchant InnovationNew Wearables Visa Sunglasses Can Make Payments
Visa, the credit card company, announced a prototype of a pair of sunglasses that can make payments at the South By Southwest...
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2.7KRetailTostitos, Uber, MADD Team Up Vs. Drunk Driving
Every once in awhile, a consumer product comes along not just to be sold, but to try and do some good. This...
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4.5KPayment MethodsING To Roll Out Contactless Charity Donation Boxes
Dutch bank ING is gearing up to roll out charity donation boxes that are contactless. According to a report, the charity donation boxes were...
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3.5KPayment MethodsBarclaycard Rolls Out Self-Serve Beer Pump
Getting a beer is becoming a little easier, at least in one London pub, which rolled out a self-service beer pump. According...
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9.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal, Citi, FIS Partnerships Drive Digital Ubiquity
PayPal’s made it pretty clear that enabling consumer choice means giving consumers the ability to use their preferred method of payment inside...
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9.4KAndroid PayWestpac Mastercard Customers Can Pay With Android Pay
Westpac announced Monday (Dec. 12) that Westpac Mastercard customers using select Samsung, Sony, LG, HTC, Motorola, Huawei, Pixel and other compatible Android...
