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PayPal to Offer Cards, Expand Point of Sale Trial This Week – American Banker Article
PayPal, which has been testing a point of sale payment system with Home Depot, plans this week to expand that trial and offer consumers a card linked to their PayPal accounts….
Via www.americanbanker.com
By 2020, half of all Visa Europe’s payments will be mobile
Visa Europe sees a very mobile future and now predicts that more than half of all Visa payments in Europe will be mobile by 2020.
Via gigaom.com
Suze Orman Discusses Her Prepaid Debit Card : NPR
Audie Cornish speaks with financial expert and author Suze Orman about her new prepaid debit card, Approved….
Via n.pr
TechCrunch | Mobile Payments Company BilltoMobile Launches One-Click Checkout For The Mobile Web
Mobile payments company BilltoMobile, which now has relationships with all four major carriers in the U.S.
Via techcrunch.com
PayPal Left to Fend for Itself
Scott Thompson’s jump to Yahoo leaves eBay’s PayPal without its longtime leader, just as the online-payments unit grapples with new challenges from rivals such as Visa and Google….
Via online.wsj.com
Visa’s Digital Wallet Now Available on Some Smartphones
Visa, the credit card company, has added support for making wireless payments through some smartphones, which would replace its plastic cards….
Via bits.blogs.nytimes.com
COLUMN: The troubling fine print of Suze Orman’s prepaid card
“(Reuters) – Can those celebrity-linked prepaid cards really help the unbanked?
Lately there have been a spate of them, from Kim Kardashian’s to Lil Wayne’s. When it comes to that newest one, the Approved Prepaid MasterCard issued by the Bancorp Bank and endorsed by personal finance personality Suze Orman, who is also an investor in the product, less is not necessarily more. There are better alternatives.”
Via www.reuters.com
