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Digital Payments Survey
Payments Cards & Mobile, the award-winning publisher, and American Express, a leading global payments brand, have partnered with payments consulting firm Accourt to conduct a survey on the state of Digital Payments. The survey aims to collect industry data from North America, Europe and Asia and compare the different states of readiness and usage of Digital Payments [...]
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Building on the Blockchain
Following the announcement by more than 20 of the world’s largest banks that they are collaborating to develop common standards for Blockchain technology, PCM examines the implications of a decentralised, distributed ledger for the banking and payments industry. At first it was all about the Bitcoin: the peer-to-peer electronic cash system, which is all bit [...]
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Bitcoin was Top Performing Currency of 2015
For most investors, the major story of 2015 was the expectation and eventual fulfillment of a rate hike, signalling the start of tightening monetary policy in the United States. This policy is divergent to those of other major central banks, and this has translated into considerable strength and momentum for the US dollar. Using the [...]
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MintChip digital currency acquired by NanoPay
The Royal Canadian Mint’s fledgling digital currency program, MintChip, has been acquired by local startup NanoPay which has plans to commercialize the technology this year. NanoPay, which has developed a mobile payment service it says is similar to Apple Inc.’s “Apple Pay” system, acquired MintChip from the Mint in December for undisclosed terms, NanoPay Chief Executive Laurence Cooke told The [...]
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Bitcoin will continue to grow in 2016
Whilst many will put 2015 down as the year of hype for Bitcoin, this infograph shows that the predictions for the cryptocurrency are still grand.
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