Blockchains Predicted to Power the Internet of Things
You might be using a blockchain to order detergent within the next few years. That's because blockchains, or more properly,...
Payments
Coolest Brands 2016: Adyen
Secret Ubiquity
Netflix, Uber, Facebook, AirBnB, Spotify., Evernote. What do they have in common? In terms of payments, they all use the...
Coolest Brands 2016: MasterCard
Making Payments Happen in the IoT
Is it possible for a payment network to be cool? And what if that payment network was launched in --...
Coolest Brands 2016: Alipay
The Numbers Gamer
PayPal is to eBay as Alipay is to Alibaba. Only on steroids. To heck with Super Bowl ads -- the...
Coolest Brands 2016: Venmo
If You Don’t Venmo, You’re So Old
When you borrow money from someone, how do you say you’ll pay it back (even if you don’t mean it)?...
Coolest Brands 2016: Digital Asset Holdings
Making Blockchain Boom
It is interesting to note that globally there has been something of a systematic crackdown on bitcoin. The enforcement actions...
SWIFT to Leverage Innotribe for Faster Payments
Get ready for the launch of a faster-payments initiative from the world's payments kingpin, SWIFT. Founded in Belgium in 1973, the...
The Subversive Message Around Bitcoin Rings Hollow
What is to be made of arguably the most polished subversive message on bitcoin that was released recently? A video venture...
10 Ways Blockchain Will Change Financial Services
Blockchain may be the payments industry's greatest recent success story. No, really. Which other payments technology, in recent years, has developed so far...
Shocking Security Failure Uncovered in NCR, Diebold ATMs
Two network cable card skimming devices, as found attached to this ATM. (Photo courtesy of KrebsOnSecurity.) Traditionally, skimming seems like...
