Reporting on Mobile, e-Commerce, and ATM Criminal Activity
This article in BankInfo Security is a fascinating digest of criminal financial crimes from enrolling stolen cards into Apple Pay...
Who Believes the Future of Payments Is Passwords? Anyone?
This ZDNet article declares that Visa has a vision that payments will be password free. What it doesn’t answer with...
Facebook’s Libra Makes China Jumpy. Maybe Because It Competes With China’s Own Crypto?
Facebook’s announcement of Libra was similar in scope to Elon Musk’s announcement he would put men on Mars by 2024....
Is an Omnichannel Transaction an Entirely New Payment Use Case?
I wouldn’t have thought a new use case was needed for omnichannel, but this article in Forbes identifies a few...
Visa Launches Installment Service for Issuers
It’s no surprise that new ways to spend now and pay later continue to be popular. What’s interesting to note...
Visa To Use Rambus Tokenization To Extend Into More Payment Networks
Visa announced that it has acquired the Rambus payments and ticketing lines of business. Likely the most compelling part of...
Banks Shouldn’t Let Apple Pay Experience Impact Decision on Libra
This article in Bloomberg suggests that banks are deciding to stay on the sidelines because they over committed to Apple...
France Creates G7 Cryptocurrency Task Force
On the heels of the Facebook announcement of Libra the Bank of England indicated support as long as Libra is...
Bank of England Bucks the Trend – Offers Accounts to Non-Banks and Welcomes Libra (With Regulatory Caveats)
The BBC reports that Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee,...
Is Facebook a Help or Hindrance to Libra?
There is a place for cryptocurrencies and they will start to edge into mainstream payments, but if this statement in...
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