Is Bitcoin’s Newest Competitor JPMorgan Chase?
JPMorgan Chase made waves today with the filing -- or re-filing -- of a patent application for a payments platform that...
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Square Overhauls Its Marketing to Bag Larger Retailers
Square may have unveiled a new, sleeker reader yesterday, but the real news is that the company today changed its marketing...
VIDEO: Square Introduces New Card Reader
Square's iconic white reader has been redesigned for the first time since 2010. The reader is now 45% thinner --...
Millennials Are Better with Money Than You Think
The kids are all right. The rap on today’s young income-earners is that they haven’t bothered to learn about money...
Welcome to Banks’ new competitors
Founded in 2006 by a single repeat entrepreneur. IPOed the next year. Raised a total of USD 232 M, including...
Westpac New Zealand’s Cool SmartWatch App Offers Glimpse of What Wearables Can Do
Mobile banking isn't limited to the mobile phone any longer. Westpac New Zealand, a standalone company owned by Sydney, Australia-based...
HSBC Amends Policies in Wake of Criticism
When Brett King speaks, HSBC listens. Eventually. Author and CEO of bank startup Moven Brett King was surprised to find that his...
China Flexes Mobile Payment Muscles
Looking for the latest and greatest in mobile payments? Try China. Companies from the world’s most populous country have made...
Submerging Payments
The most important development in merchant payments right now isn’t happening in Silicon Valley (though I do think PayPal is...
Apple Appears to Move Closer to Launching a Payments Platform
Apple has made several feints toward becoming a full-fledged payments company in the past, and the signs keep piling up....
