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The mPOS Retail Makeover
The mPOS Retail Makeover
July 22, 2014  |  Company Spotlight

So, whaddaya know? Big retailers and micro-merchants have the very same goals: serve their customers where their customers want to buy. And mPOS is the...

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Taking The Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
Taking The Pain Out of Merchant Onboarding
July 22, 2014  |  Acquiring

“If PayPal can board me in 5 minutes, why can’t my acquirer?” Automating the boarding and underwriting process has completely reinvented what used to take...

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Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?
Is Yelp + Amazon The Mobile Commerce Game Changer?
July 21, 2014  |  Commentary

Facebook and Twitter made news last week when each introduced payment options. But MPD CEO Karen Webster says that the real player to watch is...

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Judge Gives Green Light To Opt-Out Cases
Judge Gives Green Light To Opt-Out Cases
July 21, 2014  |  Company Spotlight

A federal judge last week denied requests from Visa and MasterCard to have lawsuits filed by merchants that opted out of an earlier Interchange-fee settlement...

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The Four Ways To Win At Cross Border Commerce
The Four Ways To Win At Cross Border Commerce
July 16, 2014  |  International

It’s baacck. About twenty years ago, the big corporate buzzword was “glocal” – the global-plus-local business strategy that defined how multinationals would compete successfully on...

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Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
Does The US Really Trail The Rest Of The World In Payments Innovation?
July 14, 2014  |  Commentary

Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that more or less...

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How Device Intelligence Can Cut Mobile Commerce Fraud
How Device Intelligence Can Cut Mobile Commerce Fraud
July 11, 2014  |  Exclusive Series

Android devices have a bigger market share overall in the smartphone market, but a way bigger fraud problem too – three times as much as...

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