“Before Max Levchin co-founded PayPal, launched Affirm or sold Slide to Google, he was a teenager fleeing the Soviet Union for the United States. In this conversation with Jon Fortt he talks about his journey, his advice for entrepreneurs, and how Silicon Valley needs to change...
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Texas law banning surcharges for credit card payments was overturned. Now you’ll pay more
“For the first time in many years, surcharges are suddenly allowed on Texas credit card sales. Merchants can penalize you, passing on their “swipe fee” costs to you. A federal judge in Austin ruled this summer that the state law was unconstitutional. It was tossed...
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U.S. Faster Payments Forecast, 2017-2018 & 2021: Faster Payments Services Developing Rapidly
“The financial services industry is aligning resources behind the development of faster payment services and beginning to launch products that have a faster payments component. This research projects that faster payments in the U.S. will reach $255 billion by year end 2018...
“The report reveals exclusive insights about omnichannel shopping behavior, mobile payments as the key tech trend for consumers globally and peak days like Black Friday Key finding: The vast majority (82%) of consumers uses multiple sales channels during the purchasing process and...
“Mastercard decided to invest in the DC-based fintech startup to further simplify digital giving while connecting people to the causes they care about most.” Also Featuring : Creating a good world one # at a time | Dale Nirvani Pfeifer | TEDxAuckland As founder of GoodWorld a...