Our newsletter looks first at MasterCard biometric cards that allow cardholders to verify their fingerprint at home. Next, we examine Shopify’s brand-new merchant payments features and some back-office improvements to their e-commerce platform. Finally, Microsoft introduces payments using its Outlook email program – an idea that could spur other interesting new applications.
Mastercard points the finger at biometric cards
Mastercard unveiled a new feature for its biometric payments cards that allows cardholders to register their fingerprints at home. Imagine not having to make a trip to the bank to register your fingerprint ID? Read more…
Shopify tunes up merchant payments tools
Shopify launched a basket of new merchant payment features at its annual Unite conference in Toronto. Chief among the new features were enhancements for retail products, new features to help marketing efforts and back office tools and enhancements for more efficient business operations. Read more…
Pay bills in Microsoft Outlook soon
Microsoft today announced plans to enable bill payments within its Microsoft Outlook email program. The integration will let users pay invoices and bills within the email program using Microsoft Pay and a select group of payment processors and billing and invoice services. Read more…
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