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Like most people, I still make the majority of my purchases with credit cards. But the one place I’ve always used my phone to pay has been Starbucks. Why did I never think twice before using the Starbucks mobile app to pay for all my purchases there? For the same reasons that it has become one of the most popular mobile payments experiences in the world — it was easy to use, accepted at most Starbucks, and had a rewarding loyalty program.
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Visa just rolled out the next generation of payments wearables: an NFC-enabled payment ring. And it’s bringing it to the Olympics for the Visa-sponsored athletes to use at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This is the first prototype of its kind to be backed by Visa. These NFC payment rings will be used by all Team Visa athletes in Rio, along with 45 Olympic hopefuls from around the world.
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Paper checks. Foreign exchange rates. Settlement times. All points of pain and friction in cross-border payments and all factors that can stymie cash flow for firms and even the smallest sole proprietors or freelancers that operate in a global, always-on economy. Earlier this month, GoldMoney , a FinTech that operates a financial services and payments platform that uses gold to settle transactions globally in any currency, launched its Gold Payroll and Gold Payout applications.
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Is bitcoin making a comeback? Oh, if we had a bitcoin for every time we’ve heard that question. Actually, that would be pretty difficult to calculate how much we’d actually have in real dollars since its price trend is so volatile. Every time bitcoin shoots above the $500 mark, the digital currency world starts buzzing about why bitcoin is here to stay and why it’s going to shoot above the $600 mark soon.
And the regulations just keep coming. In the banking industry, the mindset among compliance staff seems to be one where the expectation is to have a new rule governing new rules that govern new rules. As noted in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday , the fact remains that lenders are “awash in new regulations,” with swelling ranks of both interpreters and enforcers bringing “striking changes” to banks and their own internal day-to-day mindsets and operations.
Ah, summer. Season of BBQ, vacations and Mary Meeker’s internet trends report. OK, maybe that last one is a bit less universal than the others, but to those in the know around Silicon Valley, the prominent VC from Kleiner Perkins’ annual report on what’s hot on the web is a favorite summer institution. So the headline this year? The empowered consumer, driven by better and cheaper sources of data.
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