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Dwolla Corp. on Thursday unveiled a credit option it hopes will appeal to users who want faster funds availability for spot or impulse purchases. The option, known as “Instant,” is available now and allows users to borrow up to $500 that they can use right away rather than waiting two …
Read More »Banks, Credit Unions Plan Mobile-Payments Moves in ’12; Are They Moving Fast Enough?
Major financial institutions are prepared to make bigger investments in mobile payments next year, but may not be moving fast enough to ward off non-bank competition, according to a report issued earlier this week. The chief type of mobile payments these institutions will be pouring money into in 2012 …
Read More »Using Malware And Skimmers, Fraudsters Harvest Card Data at Restaurant Depot, Lucky
The data-breach Grinch is stealing Christmas from a big restaurant supplier and Lucky Supermarkets, a major West Coast grocery chain, both of whose payment card acceptance systems were compromised recently by fraudsters using different techniques. The breach at Queens, N.Y.-based Restaurant Depot LLC, which also does business under the …
Read More »While NFC Continues to Lag, Starbucks’s Barcode System Logs 26 Million Mobile Payments
With mobile payments based on near-field communication (NFC) technology struggling to gain acceptance, new figures from Starbucks Corp. provide yet another example of how non-NFC systems are jumping to a fast lead in the mobile race. The Seattle-based coffee king this week reported that it has handled a total …
Read More »No Effect on Consumer Prices, Says Anti-Durbin Group’s Survey
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Read More »Dwolla Looks to Make Its Mark with ‘Near Real-Time’ ACH Transactions
Payments startup Dwolla Corp. eliminated its transaction fee last week on all payments under $10, a bold move in itself, but it apparently has much bigger things in store. For one thing, the Des Moines, Iowa-based company is testing a system that co-founder Ben Milne says will make automated …
Read More »Less Than a Month Old, ShopSavvy’s New Wallet Boasts 10,000-Plus Users
A mobile comparison-shopping app that launched a digital wallet late last month says it has signed up more than 10,000 wallet users and is adding new ones at the rate of 2,500 a week in a nascent business that has attracted major players like Google Inc. and Visa Inc. …
Read More »A Spat over NFC Keeps Google Wallet out of Verizon’s New Smart Phone
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Read More »Vending Machine Network Gives MasterCard Debit Cards the Boot
In a marked escalation of a conflict that began when MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. raised small-ticket debit card interchange rates, USA Technologies Inc. has stopped accepting MasterCard debit cards in its wireless network of 100,000-plus vending machines and other unattended card-accepting locations. The Malvern, Pa.-based operator turned off MasterCard …
Read More »Security Worries Arise As Mobile Payments Begin Their Ascent
The promise of mobile devices to generate new payment transactions and better service for bank customers comes with a big potential downside. Risk-control executives strongly believe fraudsters have their eyes on smart phones and related mobile devices, according to new research from Aite Group LLC. Asked if “mobile fraud is …
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