Vendor Eliminates Contactless Metal Card Issues and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 3/16/18

XCore Technologies, a component maker for card manufacturers, introduced a technology that it said eliminates issues when making a contactless payment using a metal card.
TruRating Ltd., a technology company specializing in point-of-payment customer feedback services, announced it has joined the app marketplace of point-of-sale terminal maker Poynt.
In an interview with Britain’s Financial Times, Visa Inc. chief financial officer Vasant Prabhu said Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are in a bubble, and that they find favor with “every crook and every dirty politician in the world.”
The newly released 2018 Joint Economic report from Congress includes an entire section on cryptocurrencies, marking the first time the annual report has mentioned them in a substantial way, Coindesk reported.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will conduct webinars March 21 and March 22 to review results of a mobile-banking and payments survey conducted in seven Federal Reserve districts that obtained responses from 706 financial institutions.

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