Mobile Wallet

Showing Latest Mobile Wallet

130 million active mobile money users recorded globally in 2015

29 Feb 16 @ 12:02

The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the... read more

Live @ MWC: Global mobile proximity payment users to surpass 1 billion by 2019

24 Feb 16 @ 17:15

Mobile proximity payments are the smallest, but fastest growing segment for mobile payments, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s new m-payments forecast* shows that the total global user base... read more

Banks cede power to Apple Pay

24 Feb 16 @ 16:49

Alexander Silva is thinking less and less about his bank these days. He uses his Venmo app at least three times a month to pay his rent or reimburse a... read more

Live @ MWC: What’s hot for MasterCard in 2016

23 Feb 16 @ 16:46

PCM interviews James Anderson of MasterCard to discuss the hottest trends for 2016 – including MasterPass, wearable payments and MasterCard as a technology company.

Live @ MWC: Canadian debit network launch tokenized digital debit transactions

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

Live @ MWC: Samsung Pay global expansion

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

Live @ MWC: PayPal to launch NFC

22 Feb 16 @ 13:25

PayPal has announced a change to its plans regarding NFC with two initiatives – an upgrade to its app that will support the technology and an alliance with Vodafone for contactless payments.... read more

Payments lessons from the music industry

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

Peruvian banks and telcos launch domestic mobile money network

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

Curve launch mobile payments app

17 Feb 16 @ 15:58

Curve, a London-based startup, allows people to combine an unlimited number of bank cards into one physical payment card, accepted everywhere MasterCard cards work. It is supported by a mobile... read more

NTT DOCOMO launch DOCOMO Digital to drive mobile commerce

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

World Class Payments: How UK payment habits compare internationally

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

Trending

Visa and Fiserv partnership extends API-led acceptance platform

22 Mar 26 @ 18:30

Visa and Fiserv are extending their long-running partnership in Europe with a new API-driven acceptance offering designed to simplify merchant acquiring and mod... more

Mastercard unveils new AI model built for the realities of payments

19 Mar 26 @ 15:00

Mastercard unveils new AI model to push artificial intelligence beyond the chatbot boom and into the operational core of global payments. [caption id="atta... more

Thunes links stablecoin payouts to the Swift banking network

26 Mar 26 @ 19:08

Thunes is attempting to narrow one of the most persistent divides in modern payments: the gap between traditional banking infrastructure and the digital asset e... more