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Five At Five: Mastercard Makes A Biometric Bet

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Mastercard Introduces Remote Biometric Card Enrollment. As biometrics have begun to represent the next generation in securing payments, Mastercard has unveiled a technological advancement for its own biometric cards. are considering the regulation of digital tokens outside bitcoin. Ether In The Crosshairs Of Regulators.

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Happy Birthday To PYMNTS

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The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. I’ve watched the credit card industry almost from the beginning, and we got in early. True in 2009.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. Bitcoin achieved critical mass and global use within a few years. It’s not about bitcoin, it’s about the BLOCKCHAIN !

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The PYMNTS 2018 Summer Top 10 List

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The charges came three months after a previous legal action, where Holmes was on the receiving end of a civil lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), amid allegations of “massive fraud.” That represents a 6 percent crash in over a day, kicked off by bitcoin dropping $300 in just over an hour and 4.5

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

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Secure messaging for financial services. Gift cards backed with public company equity. Fingerprint-authenticated payment card. HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Bitcoin compliance solutions. Card rewards management. Tags: Consumer, blockchain, crypto-currency, bitcoin. Source: Finovate. Source: Re/Code.

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Fintech Fundings: 32 Companies Raise $210 Million Second Week of July

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Lost/stolen credit & debit card solution. Bitcoin-based mPOS technology. Bitcoin exchange. Tags: Consumer, cyrpto-currency, bitcoin, blockchain, payments, remittances. P2P currency exchange. Latest round: $8.4 million Series B. Total raised: $18.5 HQ: London, England, UK. CirraGroup.

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Fintech Fundings: 28 Companies Raise $220 Million Week Ending March 25

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Smart contract platform tied to bitcoin. Debit card with company-driven expense rules. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, merchants, acquiring, credit/debit cards, acquiring, Y Combinator (investor). Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform.

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