Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and other services using Apple Pay, CellPoint said in a press release on Wednesday (Sept. 4). “Providing modern digital payment solutions...
It’s kickoff season again — and for the 100th time, it turns out. National Football League (NFL) football is about to start up — real games, not the practice ones — and that means another flurry of activity regarding payments and commerce. The National Football...
Here’s a thought as the unofficial end of summer draws near and a new decade looms: Pay more attention to Vietnam. No doubt you already are, but maybe pay even more attention, especially to get a better sense of how digital and mobile payment and...
Silicon Valley’s mobile payments company Square Inc. is causing ripples of concern on Wall Street as the competition closes in and one of its customer walks, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Aug. 29). Now that Square has lost the Danish company Joe & the Juice, Wall...
It’s that’s time of year again – football season is upon us. As diehard baseball geeks pout about having to share TV time with another major sport, and most of the country goes into New England Patriot-hating mode, the digital payments and commerce industry gets pretty...
Speed isn’t the only factor to consider in the deployment of real-time payments systems. Security and compliance are also vital components in ensuring that payments are delivered safely and without delay. To compare payment rails to real-life rails, no rail passenger wants to travel faster...
JPMorgan has discontinued its Chase Pay app that allowed users to pay with their smartphones in stores, according to a report by Bloomberg. The app will stop working in the early part of next year, but users will still be able to use Chase Pay...
In the quest by banks to embrace the digital (payments) age, casualties mount, here and there. Call it trial and error in bits and bytes. So it is that JPMorgan Chase will partially shut down its Chase Pay app – the bank’s third digital offering...
Facebook is in talks with several FinTech companies in Indonesia about bringing mobile transaction services to the country through the WhatsApp chat app, according to a report by Reuters. The company, which recently made a similar foray into India but was delayed due to regulatory...
