Apple Pay has brought the one-click simplicity of its mobile-payments service to the desktop and mobile browsers. Apple Inc. on Tuesday released an update for Apple computers that enables consumers to pay using its Apple Pay mobile wallet on participating Web sites, such as Lululemon.com and Apple.com, but only when …
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MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. reported Monday that online-payments specialist Stripe Inc. is using their instant-payment services to pay merchants such as ride-sharing service Lyft and other users of Stripe’s marketplaces. Stripe actually began offering what it calls Instant Payouts relying on the network services—Mastercard Send and Visa Direct—to merchants as …
Read More »• Ripple, a provider of distributed-ledger technology for financial transactions, has completed a $55 million Series B funding round. • In related news, Tipalti, which provides a platform to automate supplier payments, announced a $14 million funding round. • Time Inc. said it has integrated Apple Inc.’s Apple Pay to allow mobile …
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By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews With malware and hacker attacks on payment card-accepting devices increasing in sophistication, the PCI Security Standards Council has announced updated rules for protecting such devices. “The updates are designed to stay one step ahead of criminals who continue to develop new ways to steal credit and debit …
Read More »• Apple Inc. said it is bringing its Apple Pay mobile-payments service to Japan with its new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smart phones, and Apple Watch Series 2. Apple Pay will work with Japan’s variant of near-field communication (NFC) contactless technology known as FeliCa. • The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial …
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By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews Mobile-payments services have plenty of issues with adoption and usage, but battery fires aren’t likely to be among them. While it’s true that a consumer can’t use a mobile wallet if he’s afraid his smart phone will ignite, payments experts say the problem that developed last …
Read More »• JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it is now supporting Alphabet Inc.’s Android Pay mobile-payment service. Chase, which is in the process of launching its own mobile wallet, Chase Pay, has issued more than 90 million Visa cards. • In related news, Alphabet’s Google unit said it is making Android Pay …
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By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews For drivers passing through the Chicago area, there’s now an app that will handle payment on the 292-mile-long ribbon of toll roads snaking through 12 counties in Northern Illinois. FastToll, from a Las Vegas-based developer called Pragmistic LLC, arrives just ahead of the Labor Day weekend, …
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By Jim Daly @DTPaymentNews If there’s one thing about EMV chip card payments that always works, it’s their ability to elicit strong feelings from those in the payments industry. It happened once again on Wednesday, when attendees at the Mobile Payments Conference 2016 in Chicago met for a closing panel …
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By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Consumers will use Apple Pay and Alphabet Inc.’s Android Pay online and in-app to make $8 billion in payments for digital and physical goods by 2018, almost 15 times more than the $540 million forecast for 2016, according to Juniper Research, a U.K.-based research firm. Juniper released …
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