The weather may have improved, but people are still shopping online. But what they’re buying and how much they’re spending may surprise you. In a recent podcast, MasterCard Advisors’ SVP Market Insights Sarah Quinlan caught up again with MPD CEO Karen Webster to share all...
As former Square COO Keith Rabois launches one more “stellar” currency, Kanye West wins a lawsuit that shutters Coinye Bitcoin. Life in the land of the bitcoins and crypto-currencies is never dull.
No matter how tricky aligning a QR code to the brackets on a phone screen might be, it’s not pushing smartphone owners away. A Nielsen report released last week showed that quick response (QR) codes, or bar codes, have emerged as one of the most...
There is no shortage of digitally backed currencies in the world. There’s bitcoin, that granddaddy of them all but the list goes on and gets longer each day. More or less, they are all based on the same innovation: the open source block-chain and the...
BitPay wants to make it easier for merchants to start taking bitcoin, and thinks it can succeed well enough to get a million merchants behind the company by the conclusion of 2016. “We have set a goal to enroll one million merchants by the end...
What does a Chief Ninja do on his summer vacation? MPD CEO Karen Webster got a chance to find out when she chatted with LevelUp Chief Ninja Seth Priebatsch about the company's latest expansion this summer, which will move LevelUp into a crowded but lucrative...
The brainchild of two former Amazon executives founded in 2007 saw this newest massive cash injection come from existing investors – including Tiger Global Management – working with new backers: Singapore sovereign–wealth fund GIC and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. The company claims that goods worth...
What do giant jars of mayonnaise, value shoppers and EMV-compliant cards have in common? Starting in 2015 they will all be things one can find at a BJ’s wholesale club. The Massachusetts-based bulk store has inked an agreement with Alliance Data Systems Corporation and MasterCard...
The English have spoken and it seems that they have spoken out in favor using biometric indentification as a primary identifier when it comes to securing banking services. This insight comes from a Intelligent Environments survey that indicates almost 80 percent of British banking users...
