December 03, 2012
Challenge Accepted: Gemalto Gets Two Bloggers Chasing Through London For...
The summer of 2012 filled the UK with important events, such as the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, and the payments industry took the opportunity to push forward NFC payments....
December 03, 2012
Cashless ATMs Go Global
Taking out cash at ATMs is so yesterday. That’s what we may be saying around this time next year, as KAL, makers of the “Retail Teller Machine,” or RTM, have...
December 02, 2012
Emerging Payments Goes To Washington
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t MCX It Groundhog Day At Google Wallet December 3, 2012 I was invited to keynote a closed-door convening in Washington, D.C. last week that was...
December 02, 2012
U.S.: Opened FBI files bring new insight to ’70s bid-rigging...
Newly-released FBI files from former Boston Mayor Kevin White allege that an individual in the running to earn a new contract with the city for his trash company bribed White...
December 02, 2012
MasterCard And Telefônica Partner For Mobile Payments In Brazil
MasterCard and the Telefônica Group have partnered to launch MFS – a company that will develop mobile payment solutions in Brazil. The company’s first product will be a pre-paid account...
December 02, 2012
MasterCard On The Future Of Cash
Marion King, MasterCard’s president for the UK and Ireland has recently spoken on the possibility of a cashless society. She defended that the evolution of payments technologies will replace cash...
November 29, 2012
NCR Acquires Retalix For $650 Million
NCR Corporation has announced that it will acquire Retalix for around $30 per share in cash, totaling around $650 million. The deal, which was originally rumored to be for around...
November 29, 2012
Claro, Bradesco To Bring NFC Payments To Brazil In 2013
Brazilian carrier Claro and bank Bradesco have announced a partnership to bring an NFC payments service to Brazil in 2013, reports NFC World. “We think the scenario is really propitious...
November 28, 2012
Where Has All The Money Gone?
Nearly 80 percent of all U.S. currency comes in $100 bill denominations. If that’s true, why do so few of us have them stored in our wallets? That’s what The...
The pandemic is making cash all but a nonstarter for today’s no touch customers – and restaurants that can’t deliver touchless payments will find themselves in hot water. In the Order To Eat Tracker, Chris Birkinshaw, CEO of poke bowl chain Aloha Poke Co., explains why the rapid shift to cashless transactions has made contactless offerings imperative.
