PYMNTS.com Bitcoin Price and Volatility index. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 50 When hype goes up, bitcoin prices go up. At least that’s what researchers at Poland’s Nicolaus Copernicus University have found. But this week, there weren’t as many Google searches or news mentions of bitcoin...
Square has gone global. The mobile payments startup announced in London on Thursday (Nov. 20) that its Square Register point-of-sale suite is now available worldwide and supports four languages and 130 currencies. But the international version of Register can’t yet accept credit and debit card...
In a clever twist on an age-old corporate purchasing dilemma, a merged channel company has worked with Chase Paymentech to allow employees who need to make last-minute supply purchases to do so using a corporate code. The problem: Due to a major last-minute client presentation,...
Technically, the holiday season started November 1st. But we all know that holiday shoppers put their game faces on a week from today on the busiest shopping day of all days in the U.S. – Black Friday. But, this year, brick-and-mortar merchants may be...
Given the fresh popularity boost that Apple Pay has given NFC, concerns about the transmission’s use outside of Apple Pay has raised security concerns. Two companies, Oberthur Technologies and Mobeewave, are leveraging those fears and have rolled out a product designed to turn any NFC...
When Apple released its software developer kit on Tuesday (Nov. 18) for the payment-enabled Apple Watch, it was signaling that its watch is coming soon. But not soon enough for PayPal, which also rolled out its watch-like payment mechanism support for its Pebble app, on...
McDonalds is now reporting that Apple Pay is the payment mechanism behind 50 percent of all of its tap-to-pay transactions, which is more impressive than it sounds given the many years McDonalds has been accepting contactless payments. McDonalds has also been creative–although possibly impractical–about taking...
Despite Visa and MasterCard still struggling to get into the Chinese market, Apple has found one way, working out an agreement with UnionPay to make it easier for Apple apps to be purchased there. In exchange, Apple will let Chinese consumers pay with UnionPay for...
Contrary to recent inviting signals from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, executives with MasterCard and Visa are finding it increasingly difficult to get permission to do business in China. “Despite a World Trade Organization directive putting China on notice to open its bank card market by...
