Thursday, October 07, 2010

Merchant Processing (VISA, MC)

Mobile payment processing startups are appearing. They can roll their own back office, or partner with visa/mc/paypal.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1025/technology-mobile-payments-cellphones-fraud-visa-calling_2.html
Bling Nation, a Palo Alto startup that is building an alternative payment system that would bypass Visa entirely. Bling says that by starting with a clean technology slate it can charge merchants half or less of what they pay now. But a major challenge for Bling--or anyone trying to build a payment network from scratch--is that it must first persuade thousands of merchants to buy or rent yet another terminal to sit next to the one they now use for Visa and MasterCard.

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