The Fed says that prepaid card payments are the fastest growing non-cash payment method in the U.S. Ron Hynes, Global Head of Prepaid Solutions for MasterCard tells PYMNTS.com why and, more importantly, what’s next for the future of prepaid.
On Monday, June 30, ProtonMail – a secure email startup – reported that PayPal had frozen its account. However, recent reports say that the freeze has been reversed, and that it had occurred because of a technical problem. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
For all of you bitcoin fanatics who also love MasterCard, some good news arrived this week. MasterCard filed a patent earlier this week that would potentially incorporate bitcoin into its design for a planned global online shopping cart. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he could distinguish it from all of the other white houses on his street. The analog he was making was that...
Last week PayPal announced on its blog that it now offers fingerprint authentication for the Samsung Galaxy S Tab. Customers can now use their fingerprint to log in and pay at millions of merchants that accept PayPal on mobile and in stores, wrote PayPal Global...
Last week, Google had a plethora of announcements at its annual Google I/O developer conference about “What’s Next.” Included on that list were ideas for better options for mobile payments, banking and commerce. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Yesterday a curious phenomenon swept the nation--a sudden and overwhelming desire to be in a bar of the middle of the work day watching international soccer. In cities across the nation bars suddenly had more patrons than stools, leaving thousands of thirsty customers standing and...
Intuit is “PayWithCoin” enabling small biz and the CFPB is giving this crypto currency a look-see. One family is taking its vacation this summer to places that only accept BTC but you’ll need cold hard cash to buy any of the stash seized by the...
Like many social networking services, Foursquare has historically had a monetization problem—they provide a service, the service is definitely value but the service doesn’t directly generate any money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
