April 22, 2015
M-Pesa And MTN Partner For Cross-Border Payments
The two biggest mobile money operators in East Africa have joined forces. Yesterday (April 21), Vodafone M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money announced an agreement to interconnect their mobile money services,...
April 22, 2015
How MasterCard Plans To Push eCommerce Growth In Brazil
Nearly two years ago, mobile transactions made up about 4 percent of Brazilian eCommerce. But by January of this year, they were approaching 10 percent, says Daniel Cohen, SVP of...
April 21, 2015
Verifone Turns to Thales for Payment Data Encryption
Verifone has hired a new security detail. The payment technology company has selected Thales nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) for use in its end-to-end encryption solution, VeriShield Total Protect, it...
April 21, 2015
Samsung Preps Launch Of Fingerprint ID Mobile Payment Service
The touch-identification crazy is sweeping across some of the largest technology conglomerates. Most notably, Apple included the new iPhone 5s with Touch ID capabilities, but other corporations like American Express...
April 21, 2015
PayPal Boosts Leadership Ahead Of eBay Split
As PayPal readies to officially separate from eBay and operate as an independent company, the payments technology firm revealed Monday (April 20) that it has added two key members to...
April 21, 2015
Micropayments-For-Content Startup CoinTent Raises $1.1M
San Francisco startup CoinTent, which wants to get Internet readers to pay for news stories and other written content on the Web, has come out of beta and raised $1.1...
April 21, 2015
Booz Allen: IoT Will Force Enterprises Into “Active Defense”
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about to make cybersecurity a lot more difficult — and also dramatically different, according to a new set of predictions from security consultants at...
April 20, 2015
The Year Of Payments: One Quarter Down
ABOUT THE EBOOK…. In the first three months of 2015, payments has seen big strategic acquisitions, new product launches, interesting players enter the space and existing ones completely shift...
April 20, 2015
Forbes Enters The B2B Social Media Arena
The use of social media in B2B sales in questionably impactful, but digital media conglomerate Forbes seems to envision a bright future for the space. The company announced last week...
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.
