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Is The US On The Verge Of A Contactless Surge?

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When contactless payments started gaining traction in the mid-2000s, there were rampant fears about security. JPMorgan Chase launched a contactless card called Blink back in 2005, then killed it off in 2014 ahead of the push for EMV chip cards. JPMorgan Chase will roll out new Visa-branded contactless EMV cards this year.

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Another One Bites The Dust: Toys ‘R’ Us Files For Bankruptcy

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The debt load came care of a 2005 $7.5 As of now, the approximately 1,600 Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us brick-and-mortar retail locations around the world will continue to operate as usual. The eponymous toy store has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as of Sept. And it is a lot of debt: $5 billion at last count.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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Capital One made the headlines then – a genius move, many called it at that time, for an issuer that lacked demand in deposit accounts and had no other way to provide a debit-like offering that would make their brand sticky to consumers. Just like 2012, with the launch of MCX and CurrentC merchant-branded, ACH-linked mobile payments products.

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Fraudsters Pose As Hurricane Relief Orgs

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Justin Lavelle, communications director of BeenVerified.com and a frequent writer on how to avoid scams, noted that even back in 2005 (practically the dark ages when it comes to the internet), while the U.S. Despite the misleading “secure” designator “https,” Darrin Edelman, Token of Trust CEO, says this is a fake. The only problem?

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Online Marketplaces Catching Up To Offline World

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They simply aren’t going to garner the same press coverage as an international eCommerce giant like Amazon or an established market like Etsy, where artisans have been peddling their wares since 2005. But that doesn’t mean other service marketplaces are beneath notice. Here are five that are doing cool things out there in cyberspace today.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5: 2014 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Open Bank (OTCQB: OPBK) Open Bank commenced operations in 2005 as First Standard Bank in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. Please do not claim to invest in any security based on what you read here.

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The Coming Clash Of The Commerce Titans

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Consumers – often with friends or family in tow – walked past store after store, a deliberate design consideration by mall operators to maximize the number of stores that consumers had to walk past to get to the anchor store that originally pulled them in. In 2005, online sales accounted for 2.3 Should they focus on apps? With its 1.5

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