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Wearable Devices Are Becoming More Attractive as Digital Wallets

The cashless paradigm has gone from credit and debit cards to smartphones, and the next logical step appears to be wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers; howev...

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PSCU Prepared for Contactless Cards Growth in 2020

With a predicted rush in 2020 for more merchants and customers to jump onto the contactless payment cards bandwagon, PSCU announced earlier this week that they are fully prepared t...

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A Digital Version of the Dollar Will Take Longer Than Expected

In the world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is the leading token in terms of circulation, but this has a lot to do with being the most valuable digital asset, which means that most t...

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Apple Launches Express Transit Payments For Commuters

Technology giant Apple is trying to get the most functionality out of the iPhone before the next chapter of personal and portable computing is written. Subscription-based services,...

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New Mobile Payment Trends Your Business Should Investigate [2023 Update]

Juniper Research analytics estimates two billion people will use mobile banking by 2020. Already outnumbering desktop connections, mobile users’ first banking experience is via a...

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More Than a Million T-Mobile Prepaid Customers Impacted by Data Breach

In the United States, prepaid wireless services took a while to catch on; while customer demand was certainly there from the beginning, telecoms were somewhat apprehensive about de...

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How Can My Business Accept EBT?

EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) card payments enable SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) recipients to purchase foo...

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PayPal Top Target for Phishing

Over the past 15 years or so, phishing has been an unfortunately effective practice whereby a thief will make an attempt to obtain peoples’ login information to a number of websi...

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Advantages of Clover POS

An all-in-one point of sale and payments system, the Clover Station POS makes running your business fast and easy. By accepting more payment types, offering a two printer capabilit...

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