Technology
Retailers are being inventive in their use of prepaid cards and mobile wallets to improve their store loyalty programs. Many are learning to use payments technology in ways that may change the way banks view their partnerships with merchants.
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When Isis launched its mobile wallet nationwide in November, it also launched a new interface. PaymentsSource journalists give their first impressions of the new payments method.
November 26 -
Banks and payments companies are trying to develop new technology for customers' evolving needs, including person-to-person payments. But many of these new innovations must measure themselves against Square and its success. Daniel Wolfe, Editor-in-Chief of PaymentsSource, reports from SourceMedia's ATM, Debit and Prepaid Forum.
October 24
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Bitcoin companies have had a tough time getting banks to agree to give them accounts but a New Jersey credit union has agreed to work with Tradehill, a bitcoin exchange. Is this a ray of hope for bitcoin businesses, or will most be doomed to live in exile from the mainstream financial services industry?
August 28 -
See how the U.K. version of the PayPal Here mobile point of sale technology enables EMV chip-card payments.
August 16 -
Bitcoin fanatics and skeptics met under the same roof at a recent event in New York. Now that the digital currency is recognized under guidance from Fincen and bitcoin users established a self-regulating organization, entrepreneurs and payments-industry veterans are finding some common ground.
August 6 -
PayPal is sponsoring a hackathon series where mobile app developers have just 24 hours to build an app that will win them a trip to PayPal headquarters to compete for $100,000 at the Battle Hack World Finals.
August 2 -
John Lunn, global director of the PayPal Developer Network, details the recommitment the company's made to building and maintaining third-party developer tools since David Marcus become president of PayPal in March 2012.
July 24 -
Google requires the early adopters who buy its Google Glass headset to purchase it using Google Wallet. What are the implications for Google's payments strategy?
July 12 -
Google Glass, a headset built by Google to be the next big mobile device, doesn't do much yet. But its features open new possibilities to companies like Square, LevelUp and PayPal as they seek to take over the point of sale.
July 5
