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Indian payments industry set for rapid changes
June 30th, 2016
Initiatives such as Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and mobile technology are giving a boost to banking and payments The amount of cash in circulation in India is estimated at around 18% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), making ...
Microsoft brings contactless payments to Windows 10 phones
June 22nd, 2016
Following the lead of Apple, Google and Samsung, Microsoft is bringing contactless payments to Windows 10 mobile phones. Initially only available to ‘Windows Insiders’ in the US with Lumia 950, 950 XL and 650 handsets, the new feature lets ...
Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
Mobile payments: The new future of commerce
June 16th, 2016
We look at how the mobile commerce space is advancing and why this often overlooked part of the brand engagement process is important for marketers to focus back on Many sales and marketing campaigns would be pointless if they ...
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation
June 15th, 2016
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation Bitbuy.ca is a Crypto-Currency Service That Offers Banking, Procurement and Merchant Solutions to the End User TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – June 14, 2016) – While Bitcoin and crypto-currency continue to expand into ...
George Soros Is Preparing For Economic Collapse – Does He Know Something That You Don’t?
June 13th, 2016
Why is George Soros selling stocks, buying gold and making “a series of big, bearish investments”? If things stay relatively stable like they are right now, these moves will likely cost George Soros a tremendous amount of money. But ...
Visa introduced Digital Commerce App that enables financial insitutions to grow their mobile capabilities
June 8th, 2016
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) introduced the Visa Digital Commerce App, an issuer-branded mobile commerce solution that enables financial institutions to offer their own mobile app to customers with valuable card management services – ultimately expanding and strengthening their Visa credit, debit ...
Spain is the first country in Europe to introduce Samsung Pay contactless payments
June 6th, 2016
Samsung Electronics today has announced the launch in Spain of Samsung Pay, a secure and simple mobile payments service that works anywhere you can pay with a contactless credit or debit card. Spain is the first country in Europe ...
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000
June 3rd, 2016
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000 for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Financed Retail Commodity Transactions and Failing to Register as a Futures Commission Merchant The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously ...
Contactless payments take off in Canada
June 1st, 2016
The value of contactless payments made by consumers in Canada more than doubled over the past year, according to a new study published by Technology Strategies International Inc. The report titled, Canadian Payments Forecast – 2016, estimates that the ...
