Apple isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to expanding its mobile payment service beyond the U.S. The company announced Thursday (July 7) that Apple Pay has officially entered the Switzerland market. This marks the first country in Europe outside of the U.K. to start accepting Apple Pay as...
Walmart Pay is officially in play across the entire U.S. That rollout, which started on a limited basis in December, has steadily ramped up over the last six months. But just how well is the mobile payments service being received? Walmart released some brand new stats...
A SWIFT Institute report, which specifically looks at Kenya as a use case — as well as sub-Saharan Africa — shows that mobile banking has aided Kenya’s financial rates drastically. But that research also indicates that the same case may not be true for other similar...
Too much data but not enough power over their finances – how can that be? Mick Oppy, VP of Financial Institution Products at Vantiv, sat down with Karen Webster to discuss why giving consumers only the financial control they crave may change the way they...
Six months in, Walmart Pay is officially available in every one of the 4,600+ Walmart stores in the U.S. That rollout, which started on a limited basis in December, literally in Walmart’s backyard, has steadily ramped up over the last six months. That was the big...
MasterCard and Vodafone have secured a new deal that will have MasterCard powering Vodafone Egypt mobile money service, Vodafone Cash. As part of this pair up, MasterCard has moved 2 million Vodafone Cash mobile wallets on its own mobile payments network. This means that all transactions...
Today marks the last day of June 2016, which means we’re halfway through the year. And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Here’s...
Starting Aug. 1, Wells Fargo will be bringing its 17 million+ mobile banking customers real-time P2P payments, thanks to Early Warning’s clearXchange network. As part of the deal, Wells Fargo will enable those customers the chance to send funds in real time for no cost...
Although it’s been well known that Singapore was going to be Android Pay’s next move, Google officially announced the news on its blog today (June 28). “Starting today, with Android Pay, that’s all Singaporeans will need to pay for their morning kopi, taxi, tapao lunches...