When Apple Inc. showcases its much-anticipated pivot into new services next week…
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Apple and Goldman Sachs team up on credit card with iPhone features and cash back rewards
It is a major push by Apple into the financial lives of hundreds of millions of iPhone users…
Switzerland says Apple pledges to fix disruptions to rival payment app
The automatic launch of Apple Pay at point of sale terminals can interfere with payments…
Apple Pay said to launch in Belgium on Wednesday
Apple Pay will launch in Belgium in the very near future with customers of major bank
Apple Pay gains traction where it counts
Four years after introducing Apple Pay, the company is going neighborhood by neighborhood…
Apple is becoming a formidable fintech company
A growing anxiety for bank executives is how and when big tech companies will encroach on their turf…
CurrentC-backer CVS capitulates; to accept Apple Pay at 7,800 U.S. stores starting this fall
Apple Pay will be supported in CVS pharmacies and 7-Eleven stores nationwide…
Driven by Apple Pay, contactless payment systems to represent 1 in 3 in-store transactions globally by 2020 – Juniper Research
New data from Juniper Research estimates that driven by payment cards and mobile wallets…
UK’s Starling Bank adds Apple Pay support
Starling Bank customers can now add their Starling debit card to their Apple Wallet and make Apple Pay contactless payments…
Apple Pay spending caps lifted across most terminals in the UK
A majority of UK tills now accept limitless Apple Pay payments…
Why Apple Pay is beating (and will continue to beat) Google in mobile payments
Apple has emerged as the leader in the mobile payments space….
LG to launch Apple Pay knockoff in South Korea in June
South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Wednesday it will launch a new mobile payments service…
Samsung Pay flaw lets thieves remotely collect credit card credentials
Samsung Pay’s legacy point-of-sale system compatibility mode may be insecure, as a token theft…
MCX’s CurrentC postpones further releases, stops accepting transactions on June 28th
Weeks after CurrentC was delayed (again) and half the team was laid off, the mobile payment…
Walmart continues to block Apple Pay, rolls out antiquated QR code-based ‘Walmart Pay’
QR code-based payments have their benefits like tying debit and credit card transactions to store…
MCX postpones rollout of CurrentC mobile payment system, lays off 30
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) today announced it would postpone a nationwide rollout of CurrentC…
Apples’ revolutionary Apple Pay expands to Canada and Australia
Apple’s year-old mobile-payments service is expanding to more countries, banks and merchants….
Apple, Google, and Amazon unite behind ‘Financial Innovation Now’ coalition
Three of the technology industry’s fiercest rivals – Amazon, Apple and Google – have aligned behind their shared business interest…
Clunky, convoluted, invasive Chase Pay cannot compete with Apple Pay
Big retail is looking to carve out a piece of the mobile payments pie, where competitors like Apple Pay…
Apple Pay is coming to Starbucks, but will users earn points?
Apple Pay is finally coming to Starbucks’ U.S. stores by year-end, more than a year after Apple launched its mobile wallet…
Starbucks, KFC, and Chili’s to accept Apple Pay this year
Apple’s service, launched a year ago at about 220,000 U.S. locations including McDonald’s and Macy’s…
Chinese hackers infiltrated LoopPay, whose tech is central to ‘Samsung Pay’
The hackers were inside LoopPay’s network for five months before they were discovered and the Codoso Group is known for maintaining a hidden foothold in its victims’ systems…
So far, Tim Cook’s ‘Year of Apple Pay’ has been rather underwhelming
More than 75 percent of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users hadn’t tried Apple Pay as of April…
Customer patience to be tested as EMV Joins Apple Pay at cash register
The best part for the consumer, aside from the security enhancements with EMV chips, is that the checkout experience is about to become much more exciting. By exciting I mean tedious and terrible…
Some Best Buy stores are now accepting Apple Pay
You’ll soon be able to use Apple Pay in a lot more retailers…
MCX’s CurrentC may not launch until next year
CurrentC, the payments app being created by a consortium of big retailers…
CurrentC-backer Rite-Aid capitulates, to accept Apple Pay at 4,600 U.S. stores starting this Saturday
After shunning Apple Pay last fall, drugstore chain Rite Aid…
Apple Pay rival ‘CurrentC’ to get limited trial run in stores next month
After almost three years in development, the retail industry’s…
Apple Pay makes considerable progress with more than 700,000 retail sites and growing
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook made a confident prediction…
MCX CEO gone a day after Apple Pay lands Best Buy
Best Buy was a supporter of CurrentC, the system created by MCX…
Best Buy capitulates, to accept Apple Pay despite CurrentC allegiance
Starting today, Best Buy customers can use Apple Pay to make purchases…
Apple Pay outperforming PayPal, Google Wallet in mobile payments
iPhone users (34%) are more than twice as likely to use mobile payment apps compared to those with other phones…
CurrentC is no threat to Apple Pay
In every important respect – ease of use, privacy and security – CurrentC is inferior to Apple Pay…
MCX’s convoluted ‘CurrentC’ payment system to test in single market in mid-2015
The mobile payments space is about to get more crowded…
Samsung’s LoopPay payment move creates friction with Google
Tension is rising between Samsung and Google…
Analyst: Samsung’s LoopPay acquisition is ‘totally useless’
I think the technology of this LoopPay stuff is totally useless…
Visa, MasterCard full of praise for Apple Pay; international rollout said to start soon
Visa CEO, Charlie Scharf, is full of praise for Apple Pay…
Apple Pay breathes life into the mobile wallet, triggers deals
Apple Pay now counts for two of every three dollars spent via contactless payments…
Google and Softcard tie-up benefits versus Apple Pay are overstated
Google Wallet is awkward to use. To the cashier, it looked like I was some jerk holding up the line…
Google in talks to scrape up beleaguered Apple Pay roadkill Softcard (née Isis)
Beleaguered Apple Pay wannabe Softcard earlier this month laid off about 60 employees…
Slavish copier Samsung in talks to launch Apple Pay knockoff
Samsung has discussed a deal with a payments startup that would help…
How McDonald’s will accept Apple Pay at the drive through
At launch Apple Pay will be supported by a number of retailers, restaurants and more…
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