The mobile payments surge is global in scope, touching all regions and countries. That’s especially apparent in Africa, where as reported Thursday (April 1), Airtel Africa is getting a $100 million investment from Mastercard that valued the platform at roughly $2.7 billion, and which would give Mastercard...
Mobile wallet lovers, the ranks of which grow daily, are still buzzing with the late 2020 announcement that purchases made with the Samsung Pay mobile wallet in 2021 will not earn rewards points redeemable with the popular Samsung Rewards program. It’s starting a wider discussion...
Citgo is entering into a new relationship with the cloud-based mobile commerce company P97 to help consumers buy food, fuel or other items via mobile app, according to a press release. The app, the release stated, will integrate Connected Car and Citgo’s shopper loyalty program...
The Google Pay revamp, launched last month (Nov. 18), has catapulted the app to the top of the charts. The app quickly became No. 1 for finance on the Google Play App Store, the website Apptopia reported. By Dec. 9, it had skyrocketed to No....
First things get miniaturized, then mini things get combined with other mini things to make something (slightly) bigger than the sum of its parts. So it is with connected digital devices that have been proliferating for years — wearables, notebooks and the like — that...
PayPal’s money transfer arm Xoom is now offering customers in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Europe the ability to send secure funds to 12 countries in Africa for a reduced fee. “Sending money to Africa through traditional channels has always been expensive. We wanted to...
Argentinian mobile payments company Ualá, bolstered by heavyweight investors, is expanding into merchant services, according to Bloomberg. The investors include George Soros, Steve Cohen and Tencent Holdings. On Thursday (Dec. 3), the company rolled out a new line of services working with small- to medium-sized...
The pandemic has had an impact on digital wallet usage – in other words, up and to the right. Blackhawk Network noted that mobile wallet adoption in the U.S. stood at 38 percent usage among consumers before the pandemic, and as late as this fall...
WhatsApp is getting another crack at grabbing a slice of Brazil’s fast-growing payments market. Facebook’s messaging service will soon get a green light to start providing peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, head of the country’s central bank, said at a news...