05 March 2014 eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe believes that eBay and PayPal are stronger together, despite recent moves by investor Carl Icahn to split the payments service from the company’s namesake website. Icahn has recently nominated two business associates to the company’s board of...
05 March 2014 Global technology provider Fiserv Inc. has named Kevin Gregoire as group president. Gregoire most recently led the Card Services division at Fiserv, with responsibility for debit and credit processing solutions, prepaid card services, ATM processing and the Accel payments network. “I am...
04 March 2014 North Shore Bank in Brookfield, Wis., recently launched a MasterPass digital wallet to simplify online shopping for its customers, the first Wisconsin bank to offer the service. It provides a centralized location to securely store debit card, credit card, prepaid card and...
05 March 2014 Chicago’s First American Bank recently issued an advisory telling customers not to use their payment cards in local taxis. “We have become aware of a data breach that occurs when a card is used in Chicago taxis, including American United, Checker, Yellow, and...
06 March 2014 Isis is offering an exclusive 50 percent back in statement credits for American Express Card members who use their card in the Isis Mobile Wallet for a rides in a qualified New York City Yellow Medallion Taxicab. The promotion ends June 1,...
06 March 2014 PayPal is urging Australian retailers to make a concerted effort to make better use of available customer data. Noting the ever-changing nature of the retail ecosystem, Simon Banks, PayPal Australia director of enterprise, recommends that using information sets that analytics creates can...
06 March 2014 Stripe has rolled out a new checkout system for mobile and online transactions that allows users to make one-click payments for the first time on the payments platform. Embeddable on both computers and a variety of mobile devices, the new functionality will...
06 March 2014 A new voice has entered the ongoing argument between eBay’s CEO and activist investor Carl Icahn about the future of the payments wing of eBay Inc., PayPal. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has come out in a blog post to accuse Icahn of being short-sited...
07 March 2014 MeaWallet, a Norway-based white-label solution for mobile payments, reportedly is partnering with industry leaders to provide a platform to support most mobile payments options. The platform will work on “all types of smart devices and secure elements,” reportsNFC World. “The whole idea...
