Mobile payments

08 Sep 16 @ 17:00

At last week’s CONNECT Mobile Innovation Summit in Chicago, Walmart Services SVP Daniel Eckert revealed that Walmart Pay, the retailer’s proprietary mobile payment app, already boasts 20 million active users... read more

08 Sep 16 @ 16:25

JCB announced that Apple Pay will launch in Japan in October to make mobile payments with iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2. JCB has been a... read more

07 Sep 16 @ 13:44

Disruption, innovation, Uberisation, disintermediation, Fintechisation, regulation… all of these words are nowadays perceived as challenges for the retail banks and their business. Media and experts are fond of predicting that... read more

07 Sep 16 @ 13:00

As the share of digital payments in Europe keeps on growing to reach 38% of payments by 2020, the continued transformation of Mastercard is driven by the rapid growth and... read more

07 Sep 16 @ 11:58

Over the past few years, the payment landscape in India has mirrored developments occurring in the global payments arena, albeit with a time lag. Although digital payments in India is... read more

06 Sep 16 @ 11:37

First Annapolis recently completed the third edition of its semi-annual Study of Mobile Banking & Payments tracking consumer adoption and use of mobile banking and payments products. Given the energy... read more

05 Sep 16 @ 14:58

Google is rumoured to start the Android Pay, digital payment service, using smartphones in Japan as early as autumn, in cooperation with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, sources close to the... read more

05 Sep 16 @ 14:40

05 Sep 16 @ 12:38

There has been much written about the Australian banks pushing Apple Pay to loosen its grip on the technology that enables mobile payments. The result could bode well for US... read more

02 Sep 16 @ 09:32

For the first time on the Russian market, MDM Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia, has launched single-tap Mastercard Contactless mobile payments with no additional passwords. Using... read more

01 Sep 16 @ 09:12

Consumer-merchant engagement is fundamentally changing, becoming more digital and more open. Shoppers from all age groups increasingly purchase goods and services at home, at work, or on the go, via... read more

31 Aug 16 @ 13:02

The rise of third-party m-payments in China at the expense of credit and debit cards is threatening commercial banks’ access to the customer data viewed as crucial to newly emerging... read more