May 29, 2015
State of B2B Commerce: Spending Up, Technology Rules
B2B sellers have a new focus for 2015: a digital customer experience. Following similar moves in other aspects of business interactions, sellers are putting the customer at the center of...
May 29, 2015
Apple Gets “Proactive”
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the clock count down you can click here, compliments of...
May 29, 2015
Swatch’s Smartwatch Smart Payments Nearing Launch
Swatch is still looking to make inroads into the smartwatch market, with an emphasis on remote payment abilities, its CEO said. As reported by TechCrunch on Thursday (May 28), Swatch...
May 29, 2015
Chase Tech Overhaul Could Bring 5K Layoffs
The human cost of tech reliance is making an appearance at JPMorgan Chase. As part of its efforts to rely more on technology, the largest bank in the U.S. will...
May 29, 2015
Banga On How MasterCard Will Scale MasterPass
Presenting at the Sanford Bernstein Conference yesterday (May 27), MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga compared the mobile payments options on the market to MasterPass as an example to express, once again,...
May 29, 2015
Google Unveils Android Pay — Gets Big Name Support
Google gave a sneak peek yesterday (May 28) into the news that the payments industry has been waiting for since the launch of Apple Pay: Android Pay. Android Pay is the latest...
May 29, 2015
Hyperwallet Upgrades Payments Experience With Fragmob Deal
Hyperwallet has formed a new partnership with mobile application provider Fragmob that integrates Hyperwallet’s commission payments platform into Fragmob’s mobile app. As a leading payments platform, Hyperwallet, along with Fragmob, will be able...
May 29, 2015
China’s Alipay Recoups Following Site Outage
Alipay, the Chinese online payment platform, was offline for roughly two and a half hours Wednesday (May 27), which has raised questions about the site’s existing backup and contingency protocols, Caixin...
May 29, 2015
Koho Banks $1M To Make Millennials Want To Bank
Koho, a Candian banking platform, closed a $1 million seed yesterday (May 28), according to a press release. This is great news for Canadian millennials, who are lucky to have a...
Convenience has made digital wallets the fastest-growing payment method in the U.S. and influences users to spend more than nonusers, yet only 57% of small businesses offer digital wallet payments to their customers. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how payment providers can help merchants overcome preconceptions about security, complexity and technology to stay on top of the trend.
