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November, 2014

  • 6 November

    BitPay’s Mobile Wallet App Features One-Tap Payment

    Bitcoin merchant-services provider BitPay Inc. has launched an app to enable one-tap Bitcoin payment at the point of sale. Dubbed Bitcoin Checkout, the app is available now for smart phones and tablets using Android. An iOS version is planned for Apple Inc. devices. The app, when loaded onto a smart phone …

  • 6 November

    Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Shut Down Alleged Drug Site Silk Road 2.0 That Used Bitcoins

      Federal law enforcement agencies said Thursday they arrested the person they allege ran a Web site devoted to the buying and selling of illegal drugs using the virtual currency known as Bitcoin. Officials with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the FBI and the Homeland …

  • 6 November

    MasterCard To Expand Its DataCash Gateway Services With TNS Acquisition

    By Jim Daly MasterCard Inc. announced Thursday that it has a deal to buy gateway businesses from TNS Inc. that will expand the global footprint of its DataCash e-commerce subsidiary. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, were not disclosed. The sale includes two units …

  • 5 November

    A New App Uses Facial Recognition and Location To Pay Tips

    Tip.ly is a new app that wants to make it easier for patrons to tip their servers. The iPhone-only app is designed to solve the problem of how to leave a tip when a consumer has no cash. Consumers associate a payment card with their Tip.ly accounts. Recipients collect the …

  • 5 November

    MCX Chief Davidson Strikes Defiant Tone While Touting Benefits of CurrentC’s Wallet

    By John Stewart Merchant Customer Exchange LLC (MCX) has launched its CurrentC mobile-payment service with “thousands” of consumers in “several American cities,” the program’s chief executive said on Wednesday. The “consumers,” employees of retailers that make up the Needham, Mass.-based MCX consortium, are part of a pilot for the fledgling …

  • 5 November

    Eye on Tech: Small Businesses Snub NFC; Vantiv Completes Durbin-Compliant Debit Transaction

    By Jim Daly Results of a merchant processor’s survey released Wednesday claim that only 4% of small businesses have point-of-sale terminals that can accept near-field communication (NFC) contactless mobile payments, and only a small minority currently plan to upgrade their equipment so they can. Meanwhile, payment processor Vantiv Inc. on …

  • 5 November

    With October 2015 11 Months Away, POS Terminal Exec Doubts Mass Merchant EMV Adoption

    Just because merchants have until next October to install terminals capable of processing chip cards and avoid shouldering liability for counterfeit card transactions doesn’t mean most of them will have done so by that date. Many experts, and a number of merchants themselves, have made that point. But major terminal …

  • 5 November

    TSYS Embraces A New Technology Approach Called Surround

    Payment processor Total System Services (TSYS) this week says it is embarking on a new approach to technology, one that forms a core component of its business and information technology strategy. Called Surround, the approach is expected to lead to products that have easier integrations, greater flexibility and financial innovation, …

  • 4 November

    Poynt Recruits Chase Paymentech and Vantiv To Distribute Its New Terminals

    Conspicuously absent from new point-of-sale terminal maker Poynt Inc.’s Oct. 30 unveiling was how the new company’s L-shaped, portable devices would be distributed. The answer to that question came Monday when Poynt chief executive Osama Bedier revealed that two of the nation’s largest merchant acquirers, Chase Paymentech and Vantiv Inc., …

  • 4 November

    LoopPay Debuts CardCase, Working On Tokenized Data System

      Mobile payment provider LoopPay Inc. launched the LoopPay Card and CardCase, accessories meant to make it easier to use the mobile-payment service. After downloading the free Loop Wallet from the iTunes or Google Play stores, the user connects a Loop device to the phone. The user creates an account …

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