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By Peter Strozniak |
November 21, 2012
As consumers head to the malls and shopping strips this holiday season, more than half are expected to use cash or debit cards and only one out of three shoppers will break out credit cards to buy gifts, so reports an online survey of Litle & Co., a Lowell-Mass.-based payments...
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By Anna Pena |
November 12, 2012
Once the domain of Latin mom-and-pop shops, remittance services have in recent years become accessible to Hispanic and other consumers through their local credit unions.
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 31, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Disruption. Disintermediation. Reinvention. These three themes rocked the first installment of Money2020, a bustling conference that attracted a full house of 2,000-plus attendees and, more importantly, it brought in very senior executives from major financial services players ranging from American Express to Visa, MasterCard and Discover; from...
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 25, 2012
Beware the ides of Google, and while Isis is no gift from the gods, Bluebird just may prove to be a vulture.
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By Peter Strozniak |
October 25, 2012
Scant interest found for mobile payments.
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 23, 2012
LAS VEGAS — In a high-level digital wallets panel at the Money2020 confab, the verbal punches came from two heavyweights, PayPal and Google.
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 23, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Personal service via mobile channels is what's missing today, Google guru tells keynote crowd at Money 2020 gathering.
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 14, 2012
WASHINGTON — Keynotes by Sir Richard Branson, the $4 billion Virgin serial entrepreneur, and global strategist Jonathan Salem Baskin. Panel after panel on mobile banking, peer-to peer-payments and the rules of engagement with social media. A tentative obituary for near field communication, an innovative payments technology around which enthusiasm seems...
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 11, 2012
WASHINGTON —The mobile wallet wars will be over inside two years.
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By Robert McGarvey |
October 11, 2012
WASHINGTON — Three peer-to-peer payments panelists reunited at the BAI Retail Delivery conference and then went at it.
