Microsoft, Ripple, Paypal and Square in payments this week

Microsoft, Ripple, Paypal and Square in payments this week

Microsoft is working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores. The company is developing systems that track what shoppers add to their carts and has held talks with Walmart concerning a potential collaboration, according to Reuters...
Paypal, Samsung, Yolt, Revolut in Payments

Paypal, Samsung, Yolt, Revolut in Payments

MF head, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the development of bitcoin and other digital currencies could make the global financial system safer, despite the ‘inevitable’ accidents PayPal has combined PayPal Here with ebizmarts’ iPad-based point-of-sale solution,...

Ant Financial, Coinbase, Lydia, Visa in payments this week

Ant Financial is planning to raise around $5bn in a funding round expected to value the Alibaba payments affiliate at more than $100bn Coinbase, which has blamed recent changes to the coding of cryptocurrency purchases for a recent spate of erroneous charges against...

Apple, Paypal, SoftBank, Wechat, Mastercard, Stripe

Apple has announced that Discover and Wells Fargo are among the businesses supporting the roll-out of a new business chat application in iMessage, which allows users to have a text conversation with merchants and process payments from the same screen. Business Chat is...