Tags » Financial Independence, Visa
A new survey released by Visa shows "that only 5 percent of adults learned about the vital life skill of money management in elementary or high school -- a surprisingly low number. The Visa survey of 1,000 cardholders also found that less than half of people (48 percent) learned about money management from their parents while 41 percent were self-taught or learned the hard way. "
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Tags » Facebook, Google Checkout
The Google Checkout API Blog has a video interview with Renaud Visage, CTO of Eventbrite, about how he's monetizing a Facebook online events registration application using Google Checkout.
Tags » Contactless Payments, UK
ABI Research has announced results from a study of contactless payments adoption concluding "worldwide demand for contactless hardware, software, and services to support contactless adoption will reach more than $1 billion by 2012, up from just $260 million in 2007." ABI also commented that the success of the upcoming trial of contactless in London "will rest on [the banks' and card associations'] ability to convince both retailers and consumers of the value of contactless payments."
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Tags » Money Transfer, Yodlee
Yodlee has announced that "its inter-bank funds transfer solution – Yodlee FundsTransfer – launched in the market just nine months ago, has already moved more than $1 Billion and has initiated over 500,000 transfers."
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Tags » Prepaid Cards and Stored Value Cards, Rent Payments
Green Dot has announced an agreement with RentPayment, an electronic payments processor in the multifamily industry, that enables customers of RentPayment to have access to convenient cash payment methods using Green Dot's MoneyPak.
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Tags » Amazon Flexible Payments Service, ECommerce Payments, Google Checkout, PayPal
Ina Steiner takes a look at the recently introduced Amazon's Flexible Payments Service from the standpoint of online sellers - comparing it with PayPal and Google Checkout with respect to how it works for sellers.
Tags » Authentication, Biometrics
Murdo Macleod reports for The Scotsman about a new biometric authentication system from Hitachi that uses finger vein patterns - instead of fingerprints - for consumer authentication at the point of purchase.
Tags » Payments News - Headline News
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Tags » Announce Yourself!, Metavante
We have received news of the following recent management changes:
- Gary A. Refinski, 48, has been named Chief Information Officer and Dave Fortney, 43, has been named Chief Technology Officer - both at Metavante.
Announce yourself! Have you recently taken on a new position in the payments industry? If you'd like to share the news with your colleagues,
be sure to tell us about it. Are you looking for a new payments-related job? Or are you needing to find someone great? Checkout the
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