May 14, 2015
Tencent Mum On WeChat Mobile Payments Plan
As Tencent continues to grow its user base on its popular messaging app, the company’s executive team said it plans to look for ways to invest in the mobile payments side...
May 14, 2015
Braintree’s Fix For PCI 3.0 Headaches
It’s fair to say that hacking into systems of any kind (payments included) has directly gotten progressively harder over the last several years – a fact that has not, unfortunately,...
May 14, 2015
Forget Fingerprints – Pay With Iris Authentication
Now the eyes really do have it. NTT DoCoMo’s new smartphone uses iris authentication to unlock the phone – and OK mobile payments. The phone, Arrows NX F-04G, was unveiled yesterday...
May 13, 2015
LevelUp Pushes Carrier Billing Into Real World Commerce
Anyone who purchased a ringtone in the late 1990s has some familiarity with carrier-based billing. However, as smartphones rolled onto the market in the U.S., carrier-based billing never really became...
May 13, 2015
Chase’s Chip Tech Expands To Protect More Payments
“The world keeps getting smarter. Shouldn’t our transactions be smarter, too?” That’s the motto Chase has used to promote EMV chip technology, which Chase is expanding to its debit cards, credit...
May 13, 2015
It Takes Two — Tango Teams With Alibaba, Walmart For...
Apparently it does take two to tango. Or in Tango’s case, it took a retailer and an eCommerce giant as partners to help the popular messaging service launch its way...
May 13, 2015
Apple Inching Closer To Apple Pay-Alipay Match?
Will Tim Cook’s recent visit to China be enough to push the envelope and bring Apple Pay to China? Cook’s comments to Chinese news agency, Xinhua, certainly suggest Apple is making...
May 13, 2015
More Millennial Business Travelers Will Reach for Mobile Wallets, Says...
New research released Monday (May 11) by the Global Business Travel Association’s research arm, in partnership with American Express, shows millennials are on the cutting edge of using newer methods of payment and travel-related...
May 13, 2015
How Canada Sets The Foundation For Mobile Payments Success
Canada has been considered one of the “first movers” of mobile payments – partly because the nation is often quick to adopt new technologies. And the key to making that...
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.
