Mobile payments

23 Feb 16 @ 16:13

The total global user base for m-commerce will increase from an estimated 689.99 million users in 2014 to 4.77 billion users in 2019, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Of the... read more

23 Feb 16 @ 12:12

MasterCard announced it will bring facial recognition payment services, “selfie pay” to the UK as part of a range of new services designed to improve identity verification for mobile phone... read more

23 Feb 16 @ 12:01

Canadian debit network Interac says it will launch its own token generation and management service enabling FI’s and merchants to manage digital payment with support for the tokenized digital debit transactions on any device... read more

23 Feb 16 @ 11:53

Mobile payments have really taken off with the launch of Apple Pay in the UK recently. Now it’s Samsung’s turn, with the launch of Samsung Pay. Originally announced alongside the... read more

22 Feb 16 @ 14:08

Globe Telecom is upgrading its GCash service to address new requirements, including bulk payment services for salaries and government disbursements. “GCash has come a long way in solving financial inclusion... read more

22 Feb 16 @ 14:00

There are now more smartphones connected to mobile networks than feature phones – but smartphone adoption is peaking in many markets and manufactureres are swithcing focus to growth opportunities in... read more

19 Feb 16 @ 13:10

Having effectively blown up and being outed publicly earlier this week, Powa Technologies, the UK mobile commerce company valued at $2.7bn, had $250,000 available in its bank accounts at the... read more

19 Feb 16 @ 12:45

As Apple and the other handset giants turn their attention to financial services through the launch of their various ‘Pay’ solutions, will banks face a similar fate to that of... read more

19 Feb 16 @ 09:54

Peru has launched a domestic mobile money network, with the aim of drawing five million of the country’s unbanked into the formal banking system. Dubbed ‘BIM’, the low-tech mobile money programme... read more

17 Feb 16 @ 16:02

TransferTo has partnered under a framework agreement with Vodafone Group to enable real-time international money transfers to M-Pesa Mobile Money accounts worldwide. Powered by TransferTo’s cross-border Mobile Money network, the... read more

17 Feb 16 @ 15:41

Japan’s largest mobile network operator, NTT DOCOMO, has set up DOCOMO Digital in London as a new global business operation to advanced the mobile commerce ecosystem and encourage financial inclusion... read more

15 Feb 16 @ 12:09

Payments UK, the trade association for the payments industry, has published a second report in its World Class Payments series, titled: ‘How consumers around the world make payments’. The report... read more