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The David and Goliath of Payments “Square off” — this round goes to Square sorry PayPal…
I was intrigued this morning when I read about Square’s rebranding of its consumer mobile payment app in two separate articles. “Card Case” is now “Pay with Square.” The articles stated that the Pay with Square identifies local Square merchants who will accept mobile payments using the app. Pretty cool I thought, but agree with both articles’ presumption […]
“Alternative Payment” Providers–Walmart, PayPal, Google and Facebook–are the new faces of money service businesses
March 14, 2012
The classification of a money service business (MSB) in the past has never generated positive connotations or excitement. Bankers audibly groaned when the those three words were mentioned. MSBs were often located in less than desirable locations and considered taking advantage of the poor due to the fees charged for payday lending and being havens […]
PayPal continues to generate headlines as they roll out their payment capabilities to physical locations
February 29, 2012
Having a marquee company like Home Depot as a brick and mortar client adds credibility and credence to PayPal’s efforts–don’t you think? I am happy to say that the PayPal business model is interesting and quite promising. PayPal is not embracing near-field-communications (NFC) at the point of sale like ISIS or Google. Instead they are deploying […]
March 27, 2012
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