Monthly Archives: April 2015

Visa Europe Reexamines Card-Not-Present Risk as Mobile Matures

Mobile commerce is blurring the lines between card-present and card-not-present transactions, possibly even making the distinction—and the difference in pricing—irrelevant. Source: http://www.paymentssource.com

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Xiaomi and Alibaba Group Partner on Mobile Payments for Wearables

Xiaomi and Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate, will enable the Alipay Wallet mobile app to link with Xiaomi’s Mi Band smart fitness bracelet. Source: gadgets.ndtv.com

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Next fix for mobile payments

Discussing the next big problem mobile payments needs to solve, with Tri Tran, Munchery co-founder and CEO, and Juan Benitez, Braintree general manager. Source: video.cnbc.com

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More Mobile Phone Users Report Having Made Mobile Payments

Some 22% of mobile phone users surveyed in 2014 by the Federal Reserve report having made a mobile payment at some point during the prior 12 months, up from 17% the prior year, according to the agency’s 4th annual study

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Apple seeks to make mobile payments mainstream like it did for digital music and smartphones

Jim Maholic, vice president of industry consulting for Hitachi Consulting, discusses how Apple can change mobile payments like it did for other industries. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

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Broadcom hopes to integrate mobile payments in your next PC

The company hopes to expand mobile payments beyond stores with its latest product Source: http://www.cio.com

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Inside MicroStrategy’s biometric mobile identity platform Usher | BiometricUpdate

MicroStategy anticipates that their biometric identity and authentication tool will see significant interest from both its existing and prospective customers. Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

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Verint Systems adds voice biometrics to enterprise workforce optimization solution | BiometricUpdate

The newly embedded voice biometrics technology greatly improves the customer experience by decreasing fraud-related losses and call handling time. Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

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Hedge Funds More Bearish On Emerging Markets

Investors still favor emerging markets, but hedge fund sentiment deteriorated in March. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images SKS Microfinance officials collect a payment from a borrower in a village outside Ahmedabad, India. Source: blogs.barrons.com

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Emerging markets challenge US might

Two decades after setting out to become global players, David Thomas, dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, tells Della Bradshaw why so little has been achieved… Source: http://www.youtube.com

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