Mobile Wallet

16 Sep 16 @ 13:41

Monthly consumer adoption of mobile wallets (including those offered by merchants, card issuers, and the “Pays”) has nearly doubled in three years from 11% to 21%. However, monthly frequency of... read more

14 Sep 16 @ 13:49

Visa will introduced a mobile money service to enable cashless transactions in Kenya, where the majority of wireless payments are transacted through Safaricoms M-Pesa. The mVisa app will initially facilitate... read more

13 Sep 16 @ 12:35

Following the launch of Android Pay, four new banks join the Android Pay family. From today, customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Ulster Bank and Santander are able to... read more

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