Mobile payments

31 May 16 @ 15:27

PayPal has been forced to shut down its services in Turkey because the company could not get the necessary license from the local authorities. The news about PayPal no longer being... read more

27 May 16 @ 15:49

Several themes from 2015 will continue trending this year. Mobile payments will keep being one of them. Large players like Apple and Samsung have expanded their geographical presence with their... read more

27 May 16 @ 13:01

PayPal says it is discontinuing its mobile app for Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Amazon Fire OS devices to focus its efforts on Android and Apple and further condemning the brands to... read more

26 May 16 @ 15:15

Wells Fargo has announced a relaunch of its Android portal that will add support for contactless, NFC payments, ATM transactions, and more. Wells Fargo Wallet’s headlining feature is NFC. In an upgrade due... read more

26 May 16 @ 12:23

MasterCard has unveiled the first commerce application for SoftBank Robotics’ humanoid robot Pepper. The application will be powered by MasterPass, that connects consumers with merchants, enabling them to make fast digital... read more

26 May 16 @ 11:51

South Africa’s largest mobile operator Vodacom recently announced it will be scrapping its M-Pesa mobile money transfer system in Africa’s second-biggest economy. For many pundits the move comes as a... read more

26 May 16 @ 11:41

O2 in Germany is launching a mobile banking service in Germany in late summer 2016, as the number of disruptors to the financial services market continues to grow. The service will... read more

25 May 16 @ 15:50

During the Google I/O keynote, the company introduced a number of new products like the Android payments API’s and talked some more about Android N. The portions about Android N... read more

25 May 16 @ 15:38

By 2025 leading banks will be operating as digital financial superstores that blur the line between technology companies and banks, according to a new report from Greenwich Associates. The Future... read more

23 May 16 @ 12:33

The last decade has seen most of us decisively change both our online behaviour and our consumption of digital services. When, for example, did you last open a laptop to... read more

19 May 16 @ 11:24

Consumer-facing technology brands have done much to reset customer expectations around speed, but also convenience, value and choice. Consumers can send and receive e-mail across the globe almost instantly. They... read more

19 May 16 @ 10:53

Advancements in digital technology continued to shape the payments industry in 2015 as mobile, online and other digital forms of digital payments moved into the mainstream. From mass transit to... read more