Microservices: What can they do for your apps? The term microservices is used fairly frequently when people talk about developing modern software solutions, but what does that actually mean for payment and financial applications? Let's take a broad look at what a ... 
Dev Insights from the Global Payments Report Worldpay's 2018 Global Payments Report offers a comprehensive overview of the ways global consumers pay, from Argentina to Vietnam and everywhere in between. We took a look at 4 high potential emergi... 
PSD2: Challenges and Opportunities for Developers We polled our twitter audiences to see what they knew about PSD2. Results were mixed! As payment developers and API programmers, you face pressure to meet today’s consumer expectations to offer digital pa... Gaming and Payments: Trends, Adoption, and Technology With a mix of opportunities and challenges on the horizon, the mobile and online gaming industry is continuing to evolve in response to an ever-changing regulatory environment. Other considerations incl... New Trends in IDEs As advances have been made in the practice of software development, it should come as no surprise that the tools we use to actually develop said software have evolved drastically as well. While everything from languag... 
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Best Practices for Implementing Payments for Free Trial Web Applications Offering free trial applications is a useful strategy for helping to attract new users. However, in order to retain those users and turn them into paying customers, you need to deliver a flawless experience that helps... 
Apple Pay Developer - How to Build an Apple Pay Mobile Wallet Why develop an Apple Pay mobile wallet? Help unlock more conversions for your customers by understanding the statistics behind the Apple Pay mobile wallet. While mobile wallet adoption has la... 
The Advantages of Using iframes for Hosted Payment Pages Browser frames — also known as iframes — have been around since Netscape introduced them in 1996. Back then, iframes were sometimes used in ways that appear wacky by modern standards, such as for the struc... 
How To Build a FinTech App in 24 Hours In your mind what would be the outcome if a crowd of 500 payment geeks spread out in a large banquet room in Vegas for 36 hours? Do we truly understand the problems we are being asked ... How I got addicted to paying with my Apple watch in London Recently I had the opportunity to visit London and I was amazed by the convenience of contactless pay everywhere. For those of you who use Apple Pay with the Apple watch, you might have already experienced som... 
20 payments insights for 2021 Last year, digital wallets surpassed debit card usage in the U.S., and digital wallets are set to overtake credit cards as the leading payment option within the next five years. Don't get left in th... 5 Ways EMV Is Changing the World EMV compliance and the switch to chip-enabled cards and readers can have a big impact on reducing a merchant's interactions with fraud. Stolen data, particularly credit card and other sensitive data is still a large p... How a Parking App has Changed My Spending Habits (I Pay More For Convenience) As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about payments, I’m well aware of the impact of frictionless (or invisible) payments. Recently I witnessed a change in my spending habits due to payments innovation. ... Apple’s Face ID Introduces Uncertainties to a Skeptical Market Apple will launch Face ID with their Apple X (pronounced Ten) to be released in November. Along with its many new features, it will introduce a new biometric-based technology for customers to authenticate themselves w... 
The Bitcoin Hard Fork & Payment Channels With all this talk of bitcoin scaling, the August 1st bitcoin network fork, segwit, segwit2x, BCC, BTC and other general craziness going on in the bitcoin space... and the competing incentives between bitcoin miners a... A Smart Contract on Ethereum - Domain Registration If you are curious to start learning how smart contracts work, this blog post takes you through the steps I've taken to register a domain name using a decentralized app (dApp) running on the Ethereum network. ... Developer Tracker | July 2017 | Software for the Smallest Business They say if you love what you’ll do, you’ll never work a day in your life… Unfortunately, that’s only one part of the equation that many small business owners consider when starting up ... 
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