October 28, 2014
Verifone Gets Real Boost From Apple Pay
Wall Street is starting to notice the many benefactors of payments changed fueled by Apple Pay and at the top of that list is now VeriFone, reports Barron’s. The rationale...
October 20, 2014
Piper Jaffray: Apple Pay To Bring In Only $118 Million...
As Apple Pay rolls out Monday (Oct. 20), it will suffer from two holes in its card acceptance system: corporate cards and prepaid cards. Although those absences may be short-lived,...
October 17, 2014
Alipay Embraces Biometrics
Alipay, the Alibaba Group unit that is China’s largest electronic payments service, is now rolling out biometric authentication with its service. The company held a conference Wednesday (Oct. 15) to...
October 17, 2014
The Whole Scoop On The Apple Pay Monday Launch
From his lips to your ears. It’s official. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, said that Apple Pay with be released on Monday (Oct. 20) along with the iOS 8.1 update. Apple Pay...
October 15, 2014
Investment Tracker, October 15
Click here to see this week’s investment tracker. Interview With Spreedly Tokenization is not a new idea, but since the announcement of Apple Pay and its much-praised tokenized security...
October 08, 2014
Investments in Retail Payments Rocks October
$130M in financial activity. Included an array of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Of that total, almost all was driven by strategic or venture –backed investments. Deem...
October 06, 2014
Will Apple Pay Flip Debit To Credit?
There’s no doubt that Apple Pay has a lot going for it. It’s the payment method birthed by a beloved consumer brand and technology giant, it has the backing of...
October 02, 2014
Advice To PayPal: Don’t Forget Main Street
North American Bancard CEO Marc Gardner is not a big fan of shopping at large national retailers, saying that he much prefers a local boutique where personalized customer service is...
September 30, 2014
MasterCard Gives Biometrics Start-Up A $14M Boost
Canadian biometrics start-up Biony has raised $14 million in Series A financing from a group of investors that includes MasterCard. “These are one of the companies that we partnered with,...
Biometric authentication, once just a sci-fi trope, has become so common that most consumers who shopped online used biometrics to validate their purchase. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 3,278 U.S. consumers explores why so many users like biometrics — and what it will take to win over the half who are holdouts. Read more in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Biometric Authentication in the Age of Mobile,” a collaboration with AWS.