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The Merchant Financial Cyber Partnership, a unique coalition of eight financial-services trade associations and 11 merchant groups, wants Congress to make it easier for retailers and financial institutions to share information with each other related to data breaches. Merchants and financial-services companies often are bitter foes when it comes …
December, 2014
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5 December
Though Under a Cloud of Doubts, Bitcoin Marches Past 100,000 Mark in Daily Transactions
While governments and established payments networks around the world reckon with Bitcoin, the upstart digital currency has itself had to reckon this year with volatility that has seen its price plunge about 50% since its $700-plus January high. But in other respects, Bitcoin is riding high. One of the latest …
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4 December
The Value of Words: How Contract Terms Affect Portfolio Valuation
When negotiating a merchant-portfolio acquisition, buyers and sellers may want to examine more than the usual terms and conditions for elements that could affect the value, and potential, of the portfolio, advises an analyst. While there are obvious terms to look for, such as those directly related to ownership …
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4 December
MPaay Combines Loyalty, Rewards, And Payments in One App
With the recent release of MPaay by New Media Insight Group Inc., merchants have another option when considering a smart-phone app that can provide mobile loyalty, rewards, and payments capabilities. n Consumers choose from three options to make a payment. One is via existing point-of-sale terminals at merchants that accept …
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4 December
Commentators Want New York’s BitLicense To Be Clear and Ensure a Level Playing Field
More than 3,700 individuals, groups, and companies have submitted comments regarding New York State’s novel proposal to regulate virtual currencies. A Digital Transactions News sampling of comments from payments organizations about the so-called “BitLicense” shows they want more clarity in definitions and exemptions from some proposed licensing requirements. New York’s …
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3 December
Braintree Expands Availability of One Touch Mobile Payments
Braintree, the PayPal Inc.-owned online processor, says it has expanded the availability of its One Touch mobile-payments service into international markets. Announced in September for U.S. merchants, One Touch enables consumers to make payments without typing their user names and passwords for each transaction. Braintree says this helps reduce …
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3 December
As Mobile P2P Builds Momentum, Services May Struggle to Cash in
By John Stewart The advent of younger users, combined with the rise of smart phones and a much-improved user experience, is helping to drive a surge in mobile person-to-person payments. But providers still haven’t figured out how to make money on the service, which lets consumers use smart phones to …
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2 December
Mobile Commerce Soars As Consumers Begin Their Holiday Shopping
Consumers wielding smart phones and tablets put their PayPal accounts to work over the just-passed holiday-shopping weekend. PayPal, a unit of eBay Inc. until its anticipated spinoff in 2015, says its global mobile-payments volume increased 62% on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, over the same day in 2013. …
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2 December
Holiday-Season Demand Taps More Cash From Fledgling PayPal Working Capital
As small online merchants prepare for holiday-season sales, they’re seeking out financing to support extra help and added order fulfillment, and that’s boosting new financing options from online processors. PayPal Inc., for example, now has 20,000 mostly e-commerce businesses using its 15-month-old PayPal Working Capital merchant cash-advance service. It has …
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2 December
Security Firm Predicts Hackers Will Target Apple Pay and ATMs in 2015
What’s that big, juicy new target out there for cyber-hackers? Apple Pay, of course. And don’t forget ATMs, either, since many deployers have yet to upgrade machines running old, increasingly vulnerable versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP operating system. Apple Pay and ATMs are included on Woburn, Mass.-based data-security services …