The People’s Bank of China has barred the country’s domestic payments processors from handling bitcoin transactions, CoinDesk reported on December 17. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Venture partner at Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta and serial entrepreneur Carol Realini are currently crowdsourcing success stories for their new book “Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid.” Originally profiled in a November 21 article for PYMNTS.com, the book aims to draw attention to...
In just four short years, Google’s venture capital arm Google Ventures has become a major force in the startup space. For perspective, Google Ventures finalized 75 new investments in 2013, a whopping 33 percent of its total deals to date. Get the Full Story Complete...
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The payments industry lost more than $11 billion to fraud in 2012, and that figure is only expected to rise as fraud migrates to less secure channels in the wake of EMV adoption in the U.S. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
This week’s Startup Roundup illustrates how VC funds are still hungry for mobile payments investments. Among the past week’s success stories include QuickPay, a mobile payments service for parking operators and drivers, and Flint, a mobile payments service backed by the investment arm of Verizon...
Google, Facebook, Yelp. Together, they’re an exclusive group, the upper-echelon of tech companies that have upended traditional industries, and its this very group that Wisely is vying for entrance to. By unlocking consumer access to payments and spending data, Wisely aims to provide a real-time...
i2c Chief Executive Officer Amir Wain has a very different point of view on prepaid. Rather than seeing it as “just another card product,” he sees it as an enabling platform for stimulating the drive to mobile. Unlike “traditional” card products, prepaid products have many...
Amazon has reportedly acquired Gopago, a mobile payments startup based in California, TechCrunch reported on December 16. 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...
