Digital payments
Digital payments
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E-commerce payment service provider Payfort has begun offering its merchant clients in Arab countries support for monthly payment plans.
August 3 -
YellowPepper, a Latin American mobile payments firm, named the former president and founder of defunct near-field communication (NFC) firm ViVOTech as its board chair.
August 3 -
DigiSeq is aggressively pushing a future of wearable computing, contending that payments should be baked into whatever device the consumer is using, rather than a specific device an issuer directly distributes or chooses to perform financial services.
August 3 -
The mobile point of sale market already seems overcrowded, but what's out there now is just a taste of what's to come, according to 451 Research.
August 3 -
The concept of a purely mobile or digital transaction is already evolving into something more. A few companies are taking the idea of a software-based payment system and bringing it into the physical world.
July 31 -
Switzerland's Migros is the country's largest retailer and employer, as well as the owner of a prominent local bank, giving the company an unconventional perspective on the costs and benefits of mobile payments.
July 31 -
Particularly in the fast-food industry, the menu of mobile capabilities is more super-sized than ever and it's one of the rare payments trends that's actually being driven by the consumer.
July 31 -
American Express and Best Buy will allow consumers to make purchases on the retailers website using the reward points earned from their Amex spending.
July 30 -
MasterCard will provide tokenization technology to the Samsung Pay mobile wallet when it launches in Europe.
July 30 -
Even though it is still the very early days of mobile payment wearables, consumer use of the devices is poised to reach a transaction volume at $501.1 billion by 2020.
July 30 -
MasterCard and Citibank India have launched what they claim is the first global digital wallet service in India.
July 29 -
Max Levchin, founder and chief executive of point of sale credit startup Affirm and co-founder of PayPal, has resigned from his position as chairman of Yelp's board.
July 29 -
PayPal this week released new research predicting a robust market in China for U.S. retailers, a bullish outlook thats not being tempered by the vast selloffs in the Chinese financial markets.
July 29 -
Visa is partnering with and investing in Stripe, fueling the processing startup's international ambitions and product development while giving the card network added juice to build new technology.
July 28 -
The problem with basing a mobile point of sale system on Apple products is the merchant invariably pays Apple prices. E-Nabler aims to demonstrate that the same capabilities can be had on Android tablets and smartphones for at least half the price.
July 28 -
Starbucks and American Express are both using cross-merchant rewards to boost their own volume, but with a very different philosophy driving each company's program.
July 27 -
Person-to-person payments have been delivering huge improvements around the globe in areas where cash is difficult to use. But in countries where cash suffers little hardshipincluding the U.S., the U.K. and Canadathe P2P business case is very different.
July 27 -
Square Inc., the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., filed confidentially for an initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said.
July 24 -
Protecting payment card data is a never-ending struggle, and the fraudsters are only getting more creative. So far this year several incidents and studies have demonstrated the evolving nature of cybercrime.
July 24 -
After almost three years in development, the retail industry's answer to Apple Pay is finally getting off the ground.
July 24




