Mobile Payments

Seven Ways Mobile Payments Made News This Week
March 03, 2016

As everyone knows, when it comes to igniting mobile payments, there’s no one player, technology or device that’s going to dominate it all. The rapidly growing field of players, products and innovations shows that it’s still very much anyone’s game. And that’s why, every week,...

Samsung Pay Brings Wells Fargo Into The Digital Wallet Fold
March 03, 2016

Samsung Pay is one of several key players in the ongoing mobile payments race, aiming to build up a loyal user base and a steady foundation of usability and reliability. This week, the payment platform took another step forward as it announced a new partnership. Wells Fargo...

Mobile Payments
Google Goes ‘Hands Free’ For Mobile Payments
March 02, 2016

We’ve said it before and we will say it again — when it comes to mobile payments, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, any more than there is one-size-fits-all payment method. But what is clear is that the mobile solution that will ultimately garner the critical mass...

Android Pay On The Way To The UK
February 29, 2016

It looks like Android Pay will be making its debut across the pond in the U.K. at the end of March. The launch follows a little under six months after the launch of Android Pay in its current instantiation in the U.S. last September. The...

The Trending Tweets And Topics That Defined MWC16
February 26, 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016 is in the books, but the conversations and topics that drove the announcements of the week are sure to be driving the innovations for much of the next few years across the payments, tech, commerce, and security industries. But what were...

12 Ways Mobile Payments Showed Off At MWC
February 25, 2016

“Mobile Is Everything.” That was the theme of Mobile World Congress 2016. And as MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote in her column this week: “Mobile is everything because just about everyone in the world now has a mobile device … Mobile is also everything because those...

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MasterCard Partners To Expand Tokens To Issuer Wallets
February 24, 2016

MasterCard’s Digital Enablement Services just got another partner to extend its tokenization services to issuing banks. MasterCard announced a deal with Giesecke & Devrient to use the MasterCard Digital Enablement Services along with C&D’s Convego CloudPay solution. What this solution does is enable G&D to implement industry-standard tokenization...

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Retail Payments Task Force: 2016 Not ‘Year Of Mobile Pay’
February 24, 2016

At the end of 2015, the Retail Payments Risk Forum, which is part of the Federal Reserve, promised the payments community it would provide its projections for the year 2016. And, as promised, the group delivered this week with eight bold projections that don’t give...

Mobile Payments
Mobile World Congress: Day 2 Trends
February 23, 2016

Yesterday, PYMNTS detailed what happened during Day 1 of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That included news like Visa’s car-based commerce deal, and its plans to expand Visa Checkout. It also detailed a series of news announcements from MasterCard, including details about its “selfie pay”...