Mobile


Viewpoint: Selfie Generation Demands Personalization

The selfie boom was born in 2003 with the world’s first front-facing camera, and millennials are the first generation to grow up with technology focused on one’s self, bringing new expectations to the meaning of personalized, digital services.

CurrentC Pilot Adds Walmart (Oct. 19, 2015)

Walmart this week joins major merchants participating in MCX’s CurrentC mobile payments test underway in Columbus, Ohio, with Exxon Mobil and Shell coming soon, the consortium confirms.

Will banks suffer casualties in the battle to own the customer experience?

Technology has infiltrated every facet of our lives, fundamentally changing our behaviour patterns and our expectations of what constitutes a good customer experience. The banking sector has not been immune to these changes; the industry has been forced to drastically transform its business processes and services in order to keep up with customers’ expectations. Today, customer satisfaction is judged not by the smile on the face of a cashier, but on the speed with which one can gain mobile access

IDology Inc. Forges Strategic Partnership with Payfone to Increase Mobile Commerce Security (Oct. 13, 2015)

Atlanta-based IDology Inc., is augmenting its ammo to battle against fraudsters in the mobile payments and e-commerce channels with a strategic investment in Payfone Inc., combining IDology’s online identity verification and fraud prevention services with Payfone’s mobile security services with a new service, ExpectID Mobile, to verify customers’ identities in the mobile space.

MasterCard Exec Sees ‘Network of Wallets’ as M-Payment Options Expand (Oct. 8, 2015)

The recent surge of mobile payments services including Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay is impressive, but what’s more significant is that payments-enabled mobile devices are on track to expand tenfold over the next five years, creating major challenges and opportunities for developers of consumer digital wallets, said Matt Barr, MasterCard’s group head, North America, emerging payments, speaking at this week’s NFC Solutions Summit in Phoenix.

PayThink: A ‘Killer App’ for M-Payments Is Coming (Oct. 5, 2015)

Mobile payments development has exploded with the arrival of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, but it will take “organic demand” from consumers to drive broad adoption of mobile wallets, according to payments experts speaking at PayThink last week in Las Vegas.

Kerv Kick-Starts Fundraising Effort for Ring Enabling Contactless Payments (Sept. 29, 2015)

London-based fintech startup Kerv has turned to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to raise mass-production capital to enter the field of wearables with an NFC-enabled ring that allows consumers to make contactless payments. The Kickstarter campaign launched Friday in an effort to raise nearly $117,000 and as of this morning, the company already has raised more than $52,000.

Report Cites Vulnerabilities in Voice Authentication (Sept. 29, 2015)

Voice-based user authentication systems are vulnerable to “voice impersonation attacks,” where criminals gain access to a sample of a user’s voice and use that sample to build a model of the user’s speech pattern with voice-morphing software, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers say.

Reports: Square Preparing for IPO? (Sept. 28, 2015)

Square Inc. may be getting ready to file an initial public offering within the next two weeks, according to a report in Fortune magazine, adding weight to rumors going back more than two years about the m-POS company’s desire to go public.

First Data Exec: With Android Pay Launch, U.S. Mobile Payments Ubiquity ‘A Couple of Years’ Away (Sept. 23, 2015)

This month’s launch of Google Inc.’s Android Pay, just weeks before the U.S.’s Oct. 1 EMV liability shift date, is a key milestone in expanding mobile payments access to the majority of consumers, but we’re still “a couple of years” away from mainstream m-payments with ubiquitous support from banks, merchants and handset makers, predicts Dom Morea, senior vice president of business development for First Data Corp.

PayNearMe, 7-Eleven Offer Bill Pay Services (Sept. 23, 2015)

Financial services provider PayNearMe has partnered with 7-Eleven Inc. to launch the PayNearMe Bill Pay app, enabling consumers in the U.S. to pay more than 17,000 national and local billers, such as cable companies, utilities providers and insurance companies, with cash using a barcode scan at participating 7-Eleven stores.

Apple Pay Registers for Business in China (Sept. 21, 2015)

Apple Inc. is making good on its plan to bring Apple Pay to China, with news that it’s registered a subsidiary, Apple Technology Service (Shanghai) Ltd. in Shanghai’s free-trade zone, with permission to operate Apple Pay, but it’s already late to the m-payments party in China, say observers.

RBC Goes Live with HCE-Based M-Payments (Sept. 17, 2015)

Royal Bank of Canada this week introduced a new—and still somewhat rare—approach to connecting its customers to its RBC Wallet mobile payments service via host card emulation (HCE), so it works with any NFC-based Android handset, regardless of its brand or the user’s wireless carrier.

Android Pay Launches

The mobile payments race just kicked into high gear, with Google Inc. today announcing the immediate launch of Android Pay, joining Apple Pay with a little more than two weeks to go before Samsung Pay rolls out Sept. 28 in the U.S.

Samsung Pay’s Launch in Korea Drives Brisk Business (Sept. 1, 2015)

Samsung Pay is off to a brisk start in Korea after its launch there Aug. 20, about five weeks ahead of the mobile payment service’s pending debut in the U.S. on Sept. 28, but it’s nowhere near Apple Pay levels, which hit 1 million registered cards in the first 72 hours.

QIWI Integrates payWave into Visa QIWI Wallet (Aug. 19, 2015)

Building on a contactless payments boom in Russia, Visa and Russian payment services provider QIWI have integrated Visa’s payWave contactless technology into the Visa QIWI Wallet, providing millions of users with a new mobile payment option at contactless terminals.

Mobile to take lead in payments over the next five years

Mobile phones will take an increasingly leading role in the payments space over the next five years as a result of technologies that allow safe storage of payment details in smartphones, according to a report prepared by the Consult Hyperion on behalf of Payments UK.

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