Samsung Electronics said earlier this week it will preinstall Samsung Pay in its upcoming smartphones slated to be released next year. According to a report, Samsung Electronics confirmed the plan to preinstall its mobile payment service in its upcoming smartphones, excluding some of the models that...
Tokenization as a global standard for securing transactions in a digital world gets turbocharged today, thanks to Mastercard and Visa. In a mutual commitment to accelerating the adoption of an open digital wallet, the global card networks announced their agreement to allow each network to...
Scottrade Bank, a division of Scottrade Financial Services, announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) the rollout of Android Pay and Samsung Pay to its personal banking clients. In a press release, Scottrade said that, with Android Pay and Samsung Pay, Scottrade Bank now offers multiple mobile payment...
Another day, another advance for a “Pay.” Today’s pay in play is Android Pay — which is launching in Japan, according to announcements out from Google via blog post. “The next time you pop into your local “conbini”, your Android phone will be all you need...
Vantiv and iModerate know that the word wallet has come to mean much more than just the accessory thrown in a purse or back pocket. Today, the word can also describe a mobile app that stores digital versions of a person’s payment cards, loyalty cards,...
Credit card issuer American Express announced Wednesday (Nov. 30) it is enabling contactless mobile pay for cardholders in Canada that have an Android device. In a press release, Amex said the ability to pay without whipping out a card is available through the Amex app for...
We at PYMNTS desperately wish we had a short-range time machine. We don’t want to go very far back in time — we don’t need to pet a dinosaur, don’t wish to live through the Black Plague, and while character building, don’t think we’d like to live in a...
Walmart shares are up amid a push to boost its eCommerce presence to allow the retail giant to compete with e-retail behemoth Amazon. Walmart’s eCommerce growth also recently accelerated by 12 percent. Though Walmart is second only to Amazon in terms of online users (and most other...
With the adoption of digital wallets growing in the U.S. and globally, USAA Bank recently launched new mobile pay features for its digital wallet to meet the needs of its user base, which are constantly changing. According to USAA, one of the new features it...