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Bergeron’s Rules for Mobile Payments
In a VeriFone press release today titled "VeriFone Says Merchant Buy-In Key to Success of Mobile Commerce", VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron outlined six "rules" that he said "industry participants need to adhere to in order to ensure success of...
POS Steering in the Age of Durbin
Point of sale (POS) steering isn't really part of the payments industry dialogue right now as various stakeholders praise, argue, and criticize the proposed Federal Reserve rules on debit card interchange and network routing. But, I think it...
The Case for EMV Chip Cards in the US?
In one of my prior lives, I made the phone call that triggered what eventually became the industry standard for chip card deployment now known as EMV (Europay-MasterCard-Visa). That call was made almost 20 years ago. At the time, I was at Visa...
A Bubble in Mobile Payments?
I’m sure you’ve seen it - there’s been so much “buzz” in the press over the last few weeks about mobile payments. Yet, in our partners' meeting at Glenbrook earlier this week, I told my colleagues that if I knew of a way to short "mobile...
Innovations in Card Acceptance
What Drives Innovation? More often than not, the successful innovations that surprise us come from disrupters who focus in a laser-like way on unserved market opportunities. In doing so, they are able to successfully fly below the radar of the...
One Hand Clapping!
That's actually two big hands clapping for Starbucks - but I'm using the one hand clapping metaphor to help make a point! Congratulations to Starbucks for taking the lead in mobile payments in the U.S. with its announcement this morning that now...
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"Ant International, a leading global provider of digital payments, digitisation, and financial technology, today announced its role as a launch partner of Google to develop Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open rulebook that defines how AI agents can reliably...
Deadline: Request for Information (RFI) on Addressing Payments Fraud
"The public comment period will close on Thursday, September 18, 2025. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board); and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seek public input...
PayPay Is Now Accepted in South Korea Via Ant International’s Alipay+
"Starting from late September 2025, Japan's leading cashless payment service PayPay will be accepted at over 2 million merchants across South Korea through Alipay+, a global wallet gateway service operated by Ant International. This will allow its 70 million...
UK Watchdog Investigates Global Payments’ $24 Billion Purchase of Worldpay
"Britain' Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry into Global Payments' $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay, assessing whether the deal could potentially lessen competition in UK markets. The CMA has set a deadline of November 11 to reach...
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