Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Marks & Spencer’s roll out of its “Mobile, Pay, Go” service in the U.K. In addition, Malaysia’s CIMB Bank is bringing multi-QR terminals to merchants, and First Abu Dhabi Bank...
Class is in session! For the summer. Today, (June 26), Mastercard announced news that it admitted six new startups into the Start Path program’s class of 2017. So far, Mastercard says that Start Path has helped 150 later-stage tech and FinTech startups grow from “good to great to...
Consumers in India can now make payments with a sound. NFC World+ reports that MoboMoney, an NFC payments platform that information technology provider Tech Mahindra released in December, has integrated the sound-based technology of the startup ToneTag. Tech Mahindra, shares the outlet, describes ToneTag as “a...
October 09, 2018
Talk about cashless and contactless. How about payments made at the speed of sound — to be specific, using encrypted sound waves to make offline payments? Sound is the ancient method of communication, of commerce, where a promise to sell or buy in days of old would be — and was, and sometimes still is […]
June 26, 2017
Class is in session! For the summer. Today, (June 26), Mastercard announced news that it admitted six new startups into the Start Path program’s class of 2017. So far, Mastercard says that Start...
February 09, 2016
Consumers in India can now make payments with a sound. NFC World+ reports that MoboMoney, an NFC payments platform that information technology provider Tech Mahindra released in December, has integrated the sound-based technology of the startup ToneTag. Tech Mahindra, shares the outlet, describes ToneTag as “a software development kit (SDK) that allows offline, contactless and secure […]
