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Google and Samsung sign up for MasterCard express tokenisation programme
September 9th, 2015
Google and Samsung are among the first mobile wallet providers to join up to MasterCard‘s newly launched Digital Enablement Express programme, which aims to speed up the process of onboarding banks and rolling out tokenised payment services. Express allows ...
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 ...
History of Bitcoin: The journey of a virtual currency
September 3rd, 2015
The biggest thing to hit the global market since the invention of currency is the word “Bitcoin”. What started merely as an alternate electronic payment system soon became the seventh wonder of modern economy. But while most of us ...
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 ...
FXPRIMUS announces that now Accepts funding via Bitcoin
September 1st, 2015
One of the world’s leading online forex brokers, FXPRIMUS, has partnered with BitPay to begin accepting funding via bitcoin. Since obtaining its European jurisdictional regulation with CySEC, the global broker has extended the scope of its operations – as well as ...
Barclays set to become first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin
August 31st, 2015
Company set to partner with a ‘bitcoin exchange’ or spending platform Has two bitcoin ‘labs’ in London and has been collaborating with start-ups Bought with real money and traded online, a bitcoin is worth around $230 It can be ...
E-Coin Launches Bitcoin Debit Card Affiliate Program
August 24th, 2015
E-coin specializes in bridging the gap between the traditional financial institutions and Bitcoin by allowing Bitcoin users to store Bitcoin safely with its multi-sig wallet service, as well as allowing users to load Bitcoin onto debit cards that can be used ...
Optimal Payments complete the acquisition of Skrill
August 18th, 2015
Optimal Payments Plc (LSE AIM: OPAY) has issued a press release to inform that has completed the acquisition of Skrill. The Skrill Group is one of Europe’s leading digital payments businesses providing digital wallet solutions and online payment processing ...
Is Cryptocurrency bitcoin facing a civil war?
August 18th, 2015
Bitcoin’s forked: chief scientist launches alternative proposal for the currency The bitcoin wars have begun, as Bitcoin XT squares off against the classic flavour of the cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency bitcoin is facing civil war, with two high-profile developers announcing plans ...
Bitcoin to Monetize Mobile Games Industry Soon?
August 17th, 2015
The mobile business is booming in recent years, and many companies are trying their hand at creating addictive mobile games. Developing such games takes time, money, and effort, leading to a few possible solutions to monetize these games. Most ...
