On August 15, 2012, MCX threw its hat into the mobile payments market ring when a group of retailers banded together to create its own, mobile-only, merchant-centric payments network. Nearly four long and painful years later, on June 28, 2016, the experiment that was MCX and CurrentC...
While most Americans were probably ready to focus on a news event other than the presidential election, the tragic events of the EgyptAir crash were certainly not the way anyone wanted to get there. And it is with sadness that PYMNTS notes the international aviation tragedy, and our thoughts go out to...
Today, the mobile payments field has been reduced by one. A statement released by MCX CEO Brian Mooney late yesterday (May 16), via their PR rep, said that MCX and its CurrentC mobile payments product is folding its tent. The decision, said the written statement,...
Welcome to 2016 — and at least the seventh year that everyone says will be the year of mobile payments. But it might just be a year that we begin to see some interesting changes take place and new moves being made. And four business...
March 20, 2017
March this week improved on its “in like a lion” bonafides with a mid-month blizzard that socked most of the Northeast and gave us all our collective doubts that any lamb-like exits were in our national future. Innovation Project, incidentally, battled back against the blizzard and kept Cambridge warm despite the ice — which we’ll have […]
June 09, 2016
On August 15, 2012, MCX threw its hat into the mobile payments market ring when a group of retailers banded together to create its own, mobile-only, merchant-centric payments network. Nearly four long and painful years later, on June 28, 2016, the experiment that was MCX and CurrentC will come to an end. Users’ accounts will no longer work […]
May 17, 2016
Today, the mobile payments field has been reduced by one. A statement released by MCX CEO Brian Mooney late yesterday (May 16), via their PR rep, said that MCX and...
October 20, 2015
A recent news release from Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) on Friday (Oct. 16) gave another indication that CurrentC is getting closer to launch. MCX announced it was adding Buy It Mobility Networks’ (BIM)...
September 21, 2015
Best Buy confirmed with Quartz late last week that it has begun testing its checkout systems for NFC compatibility, opening the door for contactless payments like Apple Pay and Android...
