Tag: payments
PayPal Credit
I’ve just received an email from those fine people at PayPal. Apparently PayPal Credit, a new payment option, is now available. PayPal Credit is a new service that enables you to make the most of your PayPal account. It works like a virtual credit card and offers an instant decision and a paperless application process.…
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New and emerging payments
I keep using the description ‘new and emerging payments’. I think I need to change my words in some instances. Whilst updating account information I noticed that I have had a PayPal account since 2004. A further quick search and I found that PayPal was founded in 1998. Today PayPal revenue exceeds $5.6bn. Emerged and not new…
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How people really use mobile
This is the year of the mobile; payments acquiring through iZettle and their competitors is the hot topic. At the same time the phrase M-POS or MPOS (mobile point of sale) is a frequent visitor to conversations about payments. Innovation is fantastic and will lead to many successful new business. Equally many will fail, some…
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Whiteknights FC has become an iZettler
Whiteknights Football Club has been delivering youth football in Reading since 1986 and is and FA Charter Status club. We have over 150 players and the club has always been run and administered by volunteers. Collecting payments and subscriptions from busy parents is always a challenge and it can take a long time. Part of the problem…
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US Bank’s wearable wallet: will it flop or not?
Those who follow the broader retail banking industry will know that many of the most exciting developments occur in the payments space — chip-and-PIN, mobile payments and P2P, for example. Everyone is scrambling to stake their claim in the new digital payments frontier. US Bank is the latest contender to throw its hat into the…
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Jack Dorsey’s Square Raises US$100m
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s technology company Square, which enables e-payments anywhere, has raised US$100m in Series C funding, valuing the company at more than US$1bn. The marketplace for mobile device payments is beginning to open up and last week Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the market could be worth US$1trn within a few years as…
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