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Apple Pay Meets Its Biggest Foe Yet: Consumer Apathy
 

What's the biggest factor keeping Apple Pay adoption numbers down? Is it problems with the tech and retailers with non-compliant POS systems? Or could there be a more fundamental issue with how consumers aren't yet ready to move on from cash and cards?

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Digital Discussion

Prepaid’s True North
 

There’s a great opportunity for U.S. companies looking to expand their addressable prepaid market — and it’s just north of the border. On Tuesday, April 5, at 1:00 p.m. EST, join MPD CEO Karen Webster and Peter Read, president of Peoples Card Services, for a live digital discussion on the tremendous opportunities in Canada — a country that might be best described as prepaid’s best kept secret.
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Bitcoin's Ransomware Problem And Bernie's 'Bitcoin Bounty'
 

What does a hospital, a local government and Bernie Sanders have in common? They were all held hostage for bitcoin last week. In the case of the hospital and the town, their computer networks were held hostage in exchange for bitcoin. In Bernie’s case, $100k in bitcoin was – unless he debated a war vet on a talk show. You really can’t make this stuff up.

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The Three 'Ds' Of Payments Innovation
 

Abraham Lincoln said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. That was Peter Diamandis, CEO of Singularity University and Chairman of the XPrize’s challenge to Innovation Project 2016 delegates last week. And he gave a panel of incumbents a lot of food for thought about how well equipped they are to create one in which they remain relevant. His message: focus on the three D's that have driven innovation for the last five decades.

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