Credit card interest rates are on the rise, but so are the rewards issuers are offering cardholders. In fact, a lot of the terms today heavily favor cardholders. But don’t expect consumers to turn to credit card cash-advances any time soon. Those fees are way...
The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in South Korea announced on Friday that local credit card companies will help over 650,000 mom-and-pop stores pay for ENVY compliant terminals by 2015, according to The Korea Times. Companies such as Shinhan Card, KB Kookmin Card and NH NongHyup...
Everyone’s favorite payments parlor game is speculating about what, if anything, Apple plans to do in the mobile payment space. Just last week, we heard the 4th, or was it the 6th time, that it will launch the iPhone 6 with NFC capabilities. Surely, with...
Consumers on average spend nearly three hours a day on their mobile devices. Whereas only a few years ago mobile Web browsing consumed much of that time, apps now control the mobile experience – even more so than just a year ago, according to an...
The payments rumor mill is on fire with speculation that Square is up for sale. We thought it would be fun to take a look at the potential slate of Square’s suitors - what they bring to the table and why Square might want to...
Andy Laudato, SVP and CIO at Pier 1, believes that “retail hasn’t changed in thousands of years until 1994 with Amazon.com,” he told Computer Weekly. With sites like Pinterest, Laudato says that customers are now arranging products on ‘boards’ versus in-stores. “There are limitless ways...
Earlier this week, IdentityMind announced at the Inside Bitcoins event in New York that they will be partnering with Jumio and launch its IGNITE program. The program will provide anti-money laundering (AML) Bitcoin compliance for major Bitcoin exchanges. The transactions will be monitored for startups through...
VeriFone Systems Inc. this week announced the launch of its first handheld EMV-capable payment terminal, the VX 690, which features Bluetooth, 3G radio and Wi-Fi connectivity. The terminal maker also announced that some 100 independent sales organizations and acquirers are now offering its GlobalBay Merchant...
Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...
