PYMNTS.comCan Apple With NFC Ignite Mobile Payments? Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Amazon’s push into mobile payments could reflect industry trendsFierceMobileITYes, says Alberto Jimenez, director of mobile payments at IBM. Source: http://www.fiercemobileit.com

Green Prophet HopOn for instant mobile payments by bus Green Prophet In any city in the world, we have all had the experience of catching a bus, subway or train only to find we don’t the right change or the…

Figuring out FIDO (ie the Fast IDentity Online alliance and standard) Network World After all, Whit Diffie, Marty Hellman, and the RSA guys first came up with PKI back in the 1970s so you’d think that passwords would be dead…

Independent Online Emerging-Market Stocks Advance for Sixth Day; Ruble Strengthens Bloomberg Emerging-market stocks rose for a sixth day as a rally by telecommunications and energy shares overshadowed Chinese data showing the nation’s housing slump… Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

New ‘Bernanke shock’ in cards for emerging markets: ex-IMF exec Kato The Japan Times Emerging markets are at risk of revisiting last year’s “Bernanke shock” should the Federal Reserve signal an end to near-zero interest rates earlier than investors… Source:…

Confidence returns in emerging markets FT Adviser Investors in emerging markets have perhaps been right to be cautious in recent years, yet year-to-date performance has been positive and in June the IMA Emerging Markets sector recorded its fourth… Source: http://www.ftadviser.com

Product Lifestyle Management firm Centric Software Inc. recently announced that it raised $24 million in a Series D funding round, which was led by Fung Capital USA and Silver Lake Waterman. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Here’s what happened in the first week of August: The Big Takeaways for Payments and Commerce$1.2 Billion in financial activity was observed across a variety of investment types – VC funding, private placements, etc. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Much debate on cryptocurrencies has gone on over the past few years, driven by the cult-like following of Bitcoin and the general transaction anonymity most of the so-called virtual currencies support that has led on occasional to illicit use. Source:…