Our weekly email newsletter includes an in-depth look at the latest cybercrime trends in the ThreatMetrix Q2 2018 Cybercrime Report including the dramatic rise in mobile fraud transactions. A new Pulse Networks research study shows that PayPal still maintains the lead in online payments, but ...
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Mobile Payments
Mobile Payments
We’ve got a payments news roundup with news you can use from around the globe. Pulse Network looks at some of the reasons Apple Pay is gaining with credit card issuers. We’ve got a payments processor showdown between Stripe and PayPal as well as a ...
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A new research study of debit card issuers by Pulse Network shows that 12.2% of debit cards were enrolled in Apple Pay as of January 2018, an increase of 6.3% from January 2017. Mobile and contactless payments are slowly growing for other networks such as ...
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We all know the impact of the rapid rise of mobile transactions on e-commerce businesses. According to ThreatMetrix, in the last three years, mobile transactions have grown three times more than desktop transactions. By the middle of this year, mobile transactions, including new accounts, logins and ...
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Here’s what caught our attention in global payments news this week. IBM has now launched its blockchain payment clearing network for banks. Check out how cashierless stores are impacting retail. Amazon Pay enters the Japanese market in partnership with Nippon Pay and Instagram is building ...
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In Japan, 80% of consumers pay for transactions with cash. That’s why Amazon Japan’s decision to introduce Amazon Pay in partnership with startup Nippon Pay shows they are in the cashless payments market for the long term. With only 20% of Japanese consumers using other ...
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A new report from Juniper Research says password-based solutions are increasingly impractical, and service providers have begun testing alternative second factors; ‘something I am’, such as a fingerprint, iris, facial feature or vein pattern to establish an individual’s identity. Biometric identities provide an extra layer ...
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Lots of news, innovations and new developments in payments news this week. Here’s a collection of what we’re reading and what you need to know. Report: Google, Mastercard Cut Secret Deal to Track Retail Sales Google and Mastercard reportedly drafted a secret deal in which ...
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With the opening of its second store in Seattle, Amazon Go is in the vanguard of the cashier-less checkout movement. Though checkout automation has been a goal for many retailers, some have struggled with concepts from self-checkout to full cashier-less checkout and it remains a ...
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Google and four Indian banks will offer Indian consumers instant loans in the ultracompetitive $1 trillion Indian digital financial market. According to a Bloomberg report, “HDFC Bank Ltd, ICICI Bank Ltd, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, and Federal Bank Ltd to offer instant, pre-approved loans to customers right within Google Pay ...
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