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How Payment Giants Are Embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech
October 30th, 2015
MasterCard‘s participation in Digital Currency Group’s undisclosed funding round sent ripples of excitement across the crypto-sphere earlier this week. While this is MasterCard’s first crypto-related investment, the multinational corporation is not the first mainstream finance company to dip its toe in ...
Samsung Pay launches in the United States
September 29th, 2015
Only a few banks are available, and Verizon is still holding out Samsung Pay, the company’s answer to Apple Pay, has officially launched today in the United States after a month-long beta program. In theory, Samsung Pay should be an ...
VC Head Believes Israel will Lead Blockchain App Industry
September 25th, 2015
The managing director of Santander Group’s venture capital firm believes that Israel will become a reference market for blockchain applications. Mariano Belinky, who has recently invested in an Israel-based payment application, expressed his faith in the technologically advanced nation, ...
New global retail study reveals consumer demand for new ways to pay
September 7th, 2015
MasterCard has issued a press release to report on its global retail study findings. The world’s first retail focussed social listening study by MasterCard, highlights consumers’ desire for retailers to adopt new payment technologies. Shoppers around the world are ...
BitPay calls on industry to form ‘Bitcoin Association’
September 2nd, 2015
BitPay, the leading processor of Bitcoin payments, said it’s about time the biggest companies in the space began working together, and even suggested the formation of a “Bitcoin Association” to help promote the currency. Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer ...
Major Mining Pools Make a Stand Against Bitcoin XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows
August 26th, 2015
It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin implementation Bitcoin XT. BIP 101 is designed to create a hard fork in the blockchain to ...
Electronic Payments Remain Top Priority for Global Companies in Digital, Mobile Age
August 20th, 2015
While companies around the world are taking note of the growing emergence of mobile and digital payment applications, many treasury departments still grapple with the continued existence and enormous cost of paper payments. Clients at the Bank of America ...
Selfie Payments? Verifying Payments with Facial Recognition and Fingerprint Scans
August 19th, 2015
First Tech Federal Credit Union and MasterCard announce First U.S. Biomatric Payments Pilot First Tech Federal Credit Union announced a pilot program with MasterCard that will enable First Tech employees to authenticate and verify transactions using facial recognition and ...
Samsung Pay lines up card schemes and banks for launch
August 14th, 2015
Samsung will introduce its mobile payments service in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and several major banks onboard for a US launch in September. The handset manufacturer confirmed at an event to unveil the Galaxy S6 ...
Bnp Paribas: PAYING WITH A SELFIE
August 6th, 2015
MasterCard caused a stir a few weeks ago by announcing a September 2015 trial release of its new online payment method: the selfie. An initial group of 500 customers will test the system this autumn, in yet another show of creativity from the banking ...
