Apple Inc. has reportedly acquired technology that enables smart phones equipped with near-field communication to act as point-of-sale devices with no other hardware. In the deal, news of which broke as the weekend began, the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker has bought Mobeewave Inc., a 9-year-old technology firm based in Montreal.
Read MoreDive Brief: Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, asked the Federal Reserve in a letter Friday to examine whether payment networks Visa and Mastercard and debit card issuers are engaging in anticompetitive practices when issuers don’t enable PINless functionality, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has rattled the financial industry more than any event since the Great Recession. Banks have been designated as essential businesses and have largely remained open, but the normal way of doing business has all but disappeared.
Read MoreIn the wake of the many changes this year has brought, companies are moving toward making more of their supplier payments electronically. It’s a welcome thing. Check payments have dwindled in consumer life, but across US industries, nearly half of all supplier payments are still made by check.
Read MoreIn a recent PaymentsJournal commentary, I noted that Square was continuing to diversify into banking and related financial services. Its POS payment transaction service operates in a crowded field and is limited by a commodity-type pricing model. Now Stripe’s expansion beyond POS transactions is really paying off.
Read MoreGoogle is expanding its plans to offer digital banking services in the U.S. The company announced today it’s partnering with half a dozen more banks to offer digital checking and savings accounts to Google Pay users in the U.S., starting sometime next year.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has rattled the financial industry more than any event since the Great Recession. Banks have been designated as essential businesses and have largely remained open, but the normal way of doing business has all but disappeared.
Read MoreCarl Slabicki is head of strategic payments, BNY Mellon Treasury Services. The views expressed herein are the author’s and may not reflect those of BNY Mellon. This does not constitute Treasury Services advice, or any other business or legal advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. A digital revolution is driving U.S.
Read MoreLONDON, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Just two weeks after becoming Mastercard’s first crypto-native principal member, pioneering payments platform Wirex have launched their first global TV brand campaign.
Read MoreIn its latest report, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) identified key frictions to cross-border payments – including funding costs, weak competition, and the complex processing of compliance checks.
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Read MoreIt’s 2022 and people around the world are finding a ‘new normal’, with employees commuting to work and roads and public transport are busy once again. Consumers are spending more confidently with retailers once again. After a continued global effort to flatten the curve and months of social distancing, life is slowly returning to normality.
Read MoreNEW YORK (Reuters) – Three of the largest U.S. banks said on Tuesday they had set aside a whopping $28 billion for loan losses, in a stark reminder that much of the economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic is still to come.
Read MoreAn interesting story in Caixin Global, a news source covering the Chinese market, talks about a trend where card processors, particularly Alipay and WeChat Pay, circumvent payment card industry standards on credit card cash advances.
Read MoreWhen the history of the coronavirus’s impact on Latin America is written, it will highlight the acceleration that the virus had on the shift to digital banking and the subsequent economic impact of this.
Read MoreMost of us are used to receiving our salaries twice a month, like clockwork.
Read MoreDive Brief: Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, asked the Federal Reserve in a letter Friday to examine whether payment networks Visa and Mastercard and debit card issuers are engaging in anticompetitive practices when issuers don’t enable PINless functionality, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreFinancial institutions (FIs) are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for bouncing back from the pandemic, but the crisis has not been without its casualties. Banks have been forced to reduce or suspend in-branch activities to prevent the risk of infection at branches at least temporarily. The largest bank in […]
Read MoreAn unexpected hero has emerged from the hack of high-profile accounts on Twitter last week: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. said today it prevented more than 1,000 customers from sending bitcoin to accounts operated by those behind the hack. In the hack of Twitter Inc.
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