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Google Takes on NFC, Will They Crack the Code?
March 17, 2011

Google has signaled that it will do two things no one else in the payments ecosystem has done or even talked about: make a business case for merchants and consumers around NFC and maybe even put some real money behind it. Google has obviously made...

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Google Takes a Bite of the Apple
February 22, 2011

Google and Apple made news last week when they announced their respective plans to help publishers monetize their content. Less than 24 hours after Cupid worked his magic on Valentine’s Day, Apple began a subscription payment service that lets customers pay for content that magazine...

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Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Rewards
February 16, 2011

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the weeklong “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” series on PYMNTS.com is just beginning. The fourth stop for the Market Platform Dynamics team is ‘Rewards’: loves me or loves me not? Karen Webster: Loves Me The card industry...

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Will Apple Get Us to Wave At the Point of Sale?
January 26, 2011

Reader Warning: My usually sunny demeanor has been replaced by a little crankiness, given an unfortunate, unintended consequence of the snow and ice that has plagued Boston for what seems like months now. Last Tuesday, I slipped on the ice and broke my right wrist....

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Virtual Currency Equals Love
December 23, 2010

On the 11th Day of Christmas my true love gave to me … 100 Facebook credits and told me I could go crazy buying virtual stuff for my farm on Farmville. Frankly, it was not what I expected to receive from my true love. I’m...

Security and Fraud
June 04, 2010

mPayment Security: How to Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself Jack Alton, Vice President of Sales at Kount, provides a perceptive look at how Kount, and their state of the art risk decision processing engine, are helping merchants minimize the risk of fraud, while maximizing...

David S. Evans
More Than Money
April 16, 2010

    Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time.     “Perhaps you would like to see what our credit cards are like,” [Doctor Leete asks of his guest, Julian West]. “You observe…that this...

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ReliaCard Visa Debit Card
March 04, 2010

The U.S. Bank ReliaCard® Visa® was recently honored as the “Best Government-Funded Program” at the 2010 Paybefore Awards. The Paybefore Awards recognize the best products and programs in the prepaid business. Paybefore, a leading publisher of information for the prepaid industry, organizes the annual awards....

Mocapay Unveils Secure Mobile Payments at Merchant POS
February 26, 2010

Mocapay, a mobile experience platform, today, introduced the only mobile solution in the marketplace that enables secure, hardware infrastructure agnostic, mobile payments regardless of tender type and transaction location. Mocapay’s “dynamic cryptogram” architecture, which recently received a U.S. patent, ensures every mobile payment transaction is...