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Facebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
Facebook Looks At The Face For In-Store Payments
November 10, 2017  |  Facebook

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. 9) with the...

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UL Takes Testing To The API
UL Takes Testing To The API
October 25, 2017  |  POS Innovation

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 engineered to allow...

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Wells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Withdrawals At Thousands Of ATMs
Wells Fargo Rolls Out Contactless Withdrawals At Thousands Of ATMs
October 11, 2017  |  Payment Methods

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 ATMs around the...

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Helping QSRs Shake FOMO
Helping QSRs Shake FOMO
September 08, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Don’t hang the pictures on the wall or fix the siding until you know the plumbing works. According to Karen Webster, that’s good advice both...

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Visa Powering Payments on New Garmin Wearable Aims to Stop ‘Sweaty Money’
Visa Powering Payments on New Garmin Wearable Aims to Stop ‘Sweaty Money’
August 31, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Keeping up with the wearables/payments/fitness players is a workout in and of itself. Add Garmin to the mix with a new device, the vivoactive3.  Visa...

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Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
August 17, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology...

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Pay By Sound: It’s Back!
Pay By Sound: It’s Back!
August 09, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for it. But harnessing...

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xPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle
xPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle
August 07, 2017  |  Payment Methods

A payments solution that requires micromerchants to buy — and then wait for — special hardware isn’t much of a solution if you ask Joe...

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What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
August 07, 2017  |  Payments Innovation

A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with the card networks...

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