Yearly Archives: 2014

EMERGING MARKETS-Latam markets rebound as global markets recover – Reuters

SAO PAULO, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Latin American currencies andstocks rebounded on Friday, tracking global markets higher asconcerns over U.S. economic growth eased. Source: http://www.reuters.com

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Oil Price Pain In Emerging Markets: Russia, Venezuela, Middle East – Barron’s (blog)

St. Joseph News-Press/Associated Press Filling the gasoline tank in St. Joseph, Mo. Deutsche Bank updated its estimates for the profitability of emerging market oil producers if crude prices stay low for awhile. Source: blogs.barrons.com

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MasterCard Will Borrow A Touch ID Trick For Fingerprint Scanning Credit Card – TechCrunch (blog)

Apple isn’t the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases – Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning.. Source: techcrunch.com

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Report Says Card Fraud Could Be Larger Than the Illegal Drug Trade … – Marketwired (press release)

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Oct 17, 2014) – SmartMetric, Inc. Source: http://www.marketwired.com

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Obama signs order to tighten security for federal credit cards – Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday to beef up security measures for federal credit cards, and urged banks and retailers to follow suit in an effort to… Source: http://www.reuters.com

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This Week In Credit Card News: Data Breach Hits Kmart, Will Apple Pay Kill … – Forbes

Kmart Says its Store Registers Were Hacked, Exposing Credit Cards Kmart says its stores’ checkout registers were “compromised” for about a month but no personal data or PIN numbers were lost. Source: http://www.forbes.com

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Chase Payments Reinvents Its Loyalty Program

Faced with research that shows many U.S. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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How Apple Pay Will Work With the New iPads

When Apple made the iPad announcement yesterday at the Cupertino based event, Apple made sure to note that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were the only devices able to utilize Apple Pay within retail stores, but not users…

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New App Lets Shoppers Haggle With Merchants

Greentoe wants to change the way people shop by giving them a convenient opportunity to by goods at the minimum advertised price – a tacitly agreed upon floor at which retailers will not sell certain goods (at the request of…

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A New B2B Cloud Marketplace

One of the newest B2B e-marketplaces is Chekkt, an Israel-based company that features a portal with 85 customer relationship management applications among some 2,500 cloud or Internet-based software applications from about 2,000 suppliers available… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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