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Alexander Silva is thinking less and less about his bank these days. He uses his Venmo app at least three times a month to pay his rent or reimburse a friend who picks up the check at dinner. “I’ll just Venmo them right then,” says the 25-year-old San Francisco photographer. He’s also been using Apple [...]

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PCM interviews James Anderson of MasterCard to discuss the hottest trends for 2016 – including MasterPass, wearable payments and MasterCard as a technology company.

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Canadian debit network Interac says it will launch its own token generation and management service enabling FI’s and merchants to manage digital payment with support for the tokenized digital debit transactions on any device or mobile wallet. The Interac Token Service Provider (TSP) has been developed with IBM, mobile payment specialist Bell ID and payment solutions provider Everlink. “The Interac [...]

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Mobile payments have really taken off with the launch of Apple Pay in the UK recently. Now it’s Samsung’s turn, with the launch of Samsung Pay. Originally announced alongside the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung Pay is due to come to the UK in 2016 alongside the new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. [...]

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PayPal has announced a change to its plans regarding NFC with two initiatives – an upgrade to its app that will support the technology and an alliance with Vodafone for contactless payments. Customers in the US and Australia will be able to make NFC-based payments using the PayPal app on their smartphones, starting in Q2 2016. In addition, [...]

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