Alibaba has got its hands into another investment — and this time it’s putting $316 million into a startup that helps Taiwanese entrepreneurs get their business up and running, The Wall Street Journal reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
While it has been widely known for months that Ant Financial Services Group — Alibaba’s financial arm — has been developing a credit scoring service, the company has now officially started offering the service with the backing of China’s Central Bank. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
Billion dollar companies lose 3 percent or more of their revenues a year to mobile fraud. Many have resorted to frequent, impractical creation of complicated passwords to stop these losses – but that just isn’t cutting it. Biometrics, however, introduce “a new paradigm in user...
After years of pushing e-commerce sites to be more mobile friendly, Google is now pushing retailers to make their Android apps more search friendly as well, according to a post on the company’s blog for webmasters. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Almost two years after PayPal launched a handheld payment card reader for merchants in the U.K., that’s finally coming to the U.S. — and this time, it will support contactless payments and Apple Pay, too. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Is Apple Pay really the way to pull younger customers into traditional banks and credit unions? That might seem to be a no-brainer. Millennials — born between 1980 and 2000 — are twice as likely to say they’ll use a mobile wallet within the next year as...
Chip makers Qualcomm and Intel are looking for better ways of authenticating users for payments and other smartphone functions, and they’re talking up what they hope will be the next wave of user recognition this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, The Wall...
MasterCard is on a roll with exciting announcements revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Today, the company announced its findings from the third annual Mobile Payments Study. The study, developed with PRIME Research, tracked global social media posts across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Forums, Weibo...
March is coming in like a lion in the world of mobile payments! Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....
