VIDEO: PayPal Leaps to the Forefront of Biometric Authentication
Biometrics have arrived, and not a moment too soon. The so-called Heartbleed vulnerability has just about everyone worried about the...
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FNB South Africa Is Turning In Impressive Mobile Transaction Volume
The financial services story in Africa has been dominated in recent years by M-PESA, the Kenyan mobile payments service. But...
New APIs Promise Rich, Contextual Data
We offer this new dictum: Context is king when it comes to transaction data -- and one new startup is...
Budgets Not Keeping Up with Mobile Banking Growth
Despite the clearly growing importance of mobile to banks, it seems the channel is still not receiving its due in...
Four Technologies That Will Revolutionize Financial Services
The next billion connected people. They will have a voice they don’t have now A new wave of technological change...
Payment Processor PayStand Will Be a Router for Money
A new payments startup called PayStand will accept credit cards, e-checks and -- you guessed it -- bitcoins. CEO Jeremy...
Square Accepts Bitcoins, Too
It was only a matter of time. Payment processor Square announced a partnership with Coinbase last night that will allow its merchants...
A New Bank for the Young and Affluent Kicks Off Funding Round
A startup called Bowery Financial is looking to lure the young and the wealthy away from their current banks and...
The Sorry Six: Payment Processors with the Lowest Success Rates
How did your payment processor do last month? Most companies will cite a 95% success rate in processing payments, according...
53 Fastest Payment Processors in the World
Which merchant processor puts through payments fastest? The winner last month was Litle & Co., the Vantiv company. Litle also...
