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#PAYPAL PUTS HOLIDAY #CASH IN #MERCHANT’S WALLETS
11/18/2014
All merchants know the holiday shopping season is their bread and butter, but prepping for holidays brings along high product investment costs. PayPal and Square want make the loan process easier for its customers, Bloomberg reported.
This small-business trend of using PayPal and Square for loans is becoming a popular option around the holidays. In addition to aiding merchants…
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Leader in small business lending dives into spotlight of hit television series
11/03/2014
LendVantage is honored to announce that it has agreed to a sponsorship deal with CNBC’s hit television show “Shark Tank”. The reality series, which features aspiring entrepreneurs pitching business ideas to potential millionaire investors, has been a ratings bonanza for CNBC, giving the cable network its highest prime-time audience in six years.
Read more here.
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WHY POS PLAYERS SHOULD BE NERVOUS?
10/13/2014
The impact of Apple getting into payments make POS players nervous, says Karen Webster, CEO at Market Platform Dynamics. Ingenico and VeriFone, together, have something like 80 percent of the POS terminal market share. The migration to EMV in the U.S. is fueling the sale of new terminals like crazy in a market of 9 million merchants who all need new stuff to be compliant. That, alone,…
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ApplePay, NFC, QR and the New POS
10/10/2014
ApplePay, NFC, POS: with all the new payment technologies emerging, what will the payments environment look like in the future? Consumers tapping their mobile phones to Near Field Communication (NFC) equipped POS terminals, transferring card data that looked a lot like magnetic stripe data. If you’re a merchant, I think it’s a tough time to be making POS decisions; NFC and contactless…
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Is #Apple Pay Secure Enough?
10/08/14
Is Apple Pay secure enough? Apple Pay’s combination of near field communication (NFC) technology, transaction tokenization procedures, data storage on the secure element embedded in mobile devices, and Touch ID biometric authentication makes for a secure system, but only up to a point.
Touch ID on the iPhone 6 has already proven to be hackable. The brute-force method shown in a YouTube…
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Friend-To-Friend Payments In Facebook Messenger
10/07/2014
Friend-to-friend payment option is set up in Facebook messenger. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature. Messenger’s payment option lets users send money in a message similar to how they can send a photo. Users can add a debit card in Messenger, or use one they already have on file with Facebook. An in-app pincode also exists for added security around payments. It’s unclear…
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NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS ON THE RISE GLOBALLY
10/01/2014
Non-cash payments raised 10 percent in 2013 to 366 billion transactions. China remains less developed than expected for non-cash payments, but its growth rate and population mean it could outstrip the U.S. and Europe within the next five years.
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HOW BANKS CAN SURVIVE IN A POST-2020 PAYMENT MARKET
10/01/2014
In post-2020 payment market banks have to find ways to survive.
Already, in addition to Apple, other large technology and social media companies such as Amazon, Google and Facebook also are seeking entry into the payments market.
Banks can harness this technology to explore more non-traditional alliances and partnership models, according to “Global Payments 2020: Transformation and…
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STRIPE SUPPORTS FACEBOOK’S “BUY” BUTTON
09/29/2014
Stripe has been named Facebook’s partner in developing it’s “buy” button.
Stripe signed a similar deal with Twitter earlier this year. Facebook has been experimenting with embedding a purchasing function in July. Users for the first time were able to purchase items directly from ads placed within Facebook, instead of merely clicking to a new site.
Stripe confirmed to Recode that it…
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APP-BASED RENT PAYMENTS
09/29/2014
RadPad ia an app-based rent payments option. The service works by allowing users to sign up and link their debit or credit card to their account. Rad Pad then asks for the Landlords mailing address and email, which presumably allows Rad Pad to mail the check to the Landlord. However, by saving the payments to the customers RadPad profile, Renters Can conceivably improve their credit…
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Verifi Expands Chargeback Protection
09/25/14
Chargeback prevention technology provider Verifi this week announced a major expansion of the network of banks and merchants the company leverages to identify and resolve chargebacks. The company, which partners with card issuers to identify disputes before they actually become chargebacks, giving merchants the opportunity to resolve the dispute without paying the fees associated with…
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PAYPAL PARTNERS WITH SAMSUNG ON MOBILE PAY BY WATCH
09/22/2014
Paypal partners with Samsung on mobile pay by watch feature. The payment function allows users to access promotional information of stores close to their current location. The watch will then allow wearers to choose products before actually entering a store and make payments upon the receipt of the goods. Transaction information and account balances can also be checked through text…
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Apple Pay will Face Tough Competition
09/19/14
Despite the iPhones popularity amongst loyal Apple followers, the device still faces stiff competition from the likes of Android and Samsung. The company has decided to enter the final frontier of eCommerce, which is mCommerce, with Apple Pay. This bold move to enter an already crowded mobile payments market, has met with scepticism from some industry observers.
The eCommerce…
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Tip with Plastic, not Spare Change
Tip with Plastic, not Spare Change
09/16/14
The move to a more “cashless” society has not been without its victims – namely, those whose incomes relied on the spare change and small donations that once came from customers emptying their pockets, but are now locked up in digital bits and credit card swipes. This is what the DipJar, as it’s called, aims to solve. The unit itself is basic: inside the jar is a standard credit card…
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SHOPPERS NOT WILD ABOUT MOBILE PAYMENTS
09/15/14 It looks like Apple might have a tougher time jumping into mobile payments. According to a new survey by Princeton Research Associates (for CreditCards.com), only 4 percent of Americans say they would always use their mobile phone to make a purchase and less than 10 percent said they would be interested in so doing “most of the time.” Millennials and urbanites were more likely to express…
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Apple Pay: THE FUTURE OF MOBILE PAYMENTS
09/10/2014
When consumers get an iPhone6 or 6 Plus, they can use Apple Pay almost right away (obviously in October when it is live at merchants) as long as they have an iTunes account – and there are 800 million of those now in the world. All these 800 million consumers need to do is to enter their CVC code and they’re up and running.
Consumers can then use those Apple Pay accounts to pay at…
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PayPal Expands Further Into Offline Retail And Mobile Payments
09/04/2014
PayPal is rolling out a new product designed to help its business move further into offline retail. The company is launching the PayPal Here SDK (software development kit), which will help online merchants sell their products offline, while also allowing brick-and-mortar merchants a new entry point into the world of mobile commerce. The service involves a triangle-shaped dongle that…
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