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Apple Pay
Apple Pay’s European Biz Model Needs A Reboot
September 30, 2014

Apple Pay’s U.S. business model is based on issuers giving it a rebate on the fees they collect from merchants. But what happens when those fees are really low and headed lower? That’s Apple’s issue in Europe as it looks across the pond to find...

Mobile
Alipay Makes A U.S. Site Appearance
September 30, 2014

Home rental firm Airbnb is now accepting Alipay, the huge Chinese Internet payment offering, on its site, reports ReCode. 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...

Apple Pay
Apple Pay Settings Land On Monday
September 30, 2014

When versions of iOS 8.1 were released Monday (Sept. 29), they included hidden settings for Apple Pay, according to a report in MacRumors. Given that Apple Pay has been announced, the existence of the settings is not surprising. It’s also not surprising that the settings...

Controversial
How Banks Can Survive In A Post-2020 Payment Market
September 29, 2014

What a payment represents in 2020 will be much different from it does today, as it will represent much more than just the settlement of a transaction or the movement of funds. In fact, the market transformation has already begun, new research results suggest. Get...

B2B Payments
The Fed Wants To Clean Up Token Confusion
September 29, 2014

The Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Atlanta applaud the many efforts to standardize payment tokenization, except the part that there are in fact so many such efforts. The potential for confusion and, much worse, standards conflicts undermining token efforts—especially in mobile—is a great concern...

Apple Pay and Mobile Payments’ Secret Weapon
September 29, 2014

The launch of Apple Pay has started a lot of conversations about winners and losers in the mobile payments space. The fact that Apple Pay launched with an NFC payments capability for in-store payments has everyone high-fiving over the notion of an NFC dominated mobile...

Welcome to PYMNTS Weekender!
September 26, 2014

Want a snapshot of the themes that drove the buzz about payments innovation last week? Tune in, literally, to PYMNTS Weekender.

Apple Pay
PYMNTS Apple Pay Weekly Recap: The Week of Bugs, Beacons and Buyers’ Remorse
September 26, 2014

Want some fodder for that next water cooler convo? Here’s our weekly take on what’s movin’ and shakin’ across the Apple Pay Ecosystem.

Say Bye-Bye To WiFi Analytics With Apple’s iOS8
September 26, 2014

It seems that one of the updates to the iOS8 ecosystem is that it randomizes the MAC addresses of iPhones every time they connect to a WiFi network. According to Apple, this was done as part of their commitment to further protecting the privacy of...