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MCX ends CurrentC test – deactives user accounts
Proving just how hard it is to enter the payments space, even with backing and an obvious route to mas consumer usage, MCX, has announced that it is ending its the ongoing CurrentC beta test and postponing all future releases – according to an email obtained by The Consumerist. After the beta test ends, MCX will disable all [...]
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CurrentC to delay launch
CurrentC, the mobile payment platform developed by MCX, will kick off a public beta test within the next few weeks in Ohio, but may not push its service across the US until 2016, MCX CEO Brian Mooney told Recode in an interview published Wednesday. MCX, which has been working on its mobile-payment platform for three [...]
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US retailers to begin public tests of CurrentC
MCX, three years after deciding to enter the mobile payment market with CurrentC, a group of large retailers is finally doing it. Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a partnership between large retailers and restaurant companies including Wal-Mart Stores, Target and Darden Restaurants will begin its first public tests of its mobile-payment application at several member retailers and restaurants [...]
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CurrentC announces launch date
Finally, some good news for CurrentC! As the new CEO, Brian Mooney, formerly CEO of Bank of America Merchant Services, one of the largest US merchant payment acquirers, Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a group of large announced it expects to launch an early version of its CurrentC mobile payment app mid-year in an unnamed, mid-sized market. The group unveiled [...]
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MCX crushed as Best Buy moves ahead with Apple Pay
In more bad news for MCX, Best Buy customers can now use Apple Pay to buy electronics online, with the physical stores to follow later this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on today’s Apple earnings call and Best Buy confirmed. Best Buy was a strong boost for the unreleased CurrentC, a mobile payment service pushed by the Merchant Customer [...]
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