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The US Federal Reserve has set out a series of options for speeding up the country's antiquated payments system. 
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Former ING Direct CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann has launched a mobile banking service in Canada that promises to cater to "citizens of the world" through a multi-currency savings account.
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Swyp has become the latest startup to promise to replace the credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards in customers' wallets with a single card and app combo.
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Another Coin and Plastc value story. Lack of EMV, NFC capability will limit growth and usage as dependence is on mag stripe. 25% US merchants will like have EMV by year end similar to Asia and Europe!
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The future of the blockchain and the use of the Internet of Things in financial markets are among the challenges set out by banks participating in the next Startupbootcamp hackathon in London.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has declared 2015 'the year of Apple Pay' as the consumer tech firm reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company on the back of record iPhone and iMac sales.
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Canary Wharf accelerator space Level39 has opened a tech trade route to Hong Kong, through a partnership with Asian startup incubator Nest.
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Ant Financial, the financial services arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is leveraging Big Data technology and all of its considerable customer assets to launch a powerful new credit scoring agency.
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Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies are announcing this morning. The app, which is focused on..
Vineet Anand's insight:
PFM space M&A - Check picked by Mint, and now Level Money by Capital One - buy strategy a great way to expand PFM capability.
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PeerTransfer, a payments startup enabling international students to pay tuition fees in the currency of their choice, announced it has received some currency of
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Another emerging domain for C2B transactions to compete with likes of Paypal, WUBS !
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Starbucks chairman & CEO Howard Schultz explains why Apple Pay will benefit -- yes, benefit -- Starbucks.
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Howard talks about mobile payments $1.3B in 2013 with 90% from StarBucks .. math works out to $3.51 per transaction !!
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Hedgeable, a digital wealth manager founded in 2009, asked 300 members of the Bitcoin community for one, two, and three-year price predictions earlier this month.
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After a year of high-profile retail data hacks, and with the big EMV target date approaching, legislators on Capitol Hill have agreed to hold a legislative
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Samsung fans and mobile payment fanatics have something new to look forward to this year at Mobile World Congress. According to reports on Sammobile.com, Via Kenneth Carnesi,JD
Vineet Anand's insight:
My take so-far - Samsung Pay strategy will be to using LoopPay(for swipe) in addition to HCE (for NFC) to drive usage. Is it likely that LoopPay will be offered free with new smartphones? Samsung will be burning another hole in its balance sheet to play catch-up with Apple?
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In the digital age, consumers increasingly demand a fast, seamless, hassle-free checkout process. As technology evolves to meet that demand, some fear that a Via Kenneth Carnesi,JD
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Seriously - Photo id with Apple Pay / Mobile Wallets !! And next we have to work on encrypting / tokenizing the id card numbers with merchants to avoid photo card breaches.
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C-Store Chain Wawa Debuts a Mobile #Payments And Rewards App http://t.co/i7k1YNZeAF Via Kenneth Carnesi,JD
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Wawa clones Starbucks mobile payment model !! Another closed loop wallet that will add chaos in consumers mind, wallet choices, once CurrentC launches.
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MasterCard announced today that it’s bringing Apple Pay to the PGA Tour starting with its first stop at the Waste Management Phoenix Open kicking off this week. MasterCard will also offer attendees...
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Apple Pay ventures to PGA Tour in Phoenix .... watch for offers near 16th hole !!
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Apple’s Apple Pay payments service, now three months old, is making progress toward a goal that has eluded other mobile wallets: persuading people to use it.
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It is a matter of time Apple Pay to evolve Release 2 in 2015 that will address the data considerations that drive loyalty at merchants !
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Amazon is testing a new service that could help it and its publishing partners drive more traffic (and, importantly, purchases) from customers on mobile..
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It’s hard to imagine life without the smartphone. Mobile devices are now being used to complete the shopping process online and in stores – and 94 percent of us
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As a result of President Obama’s “Buy Secure” initiative, the federal government this month is kicking off its chip-and-PIN rollout. Fraud experts now debate
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Apple and Google have done a decent job getting some consumers to use their digital wallets, but a lot of work has to be done to help broaden acceptance.
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Xapo is launching the first Bitcoin debit card. Spend your bitcoins anywhere.
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There is some hope of seeing a development initiative taking off the ground for Faster Payments this year!