The second full week of June brought a flurry of news from many of the “majors” in the mobile payments ecosystem. Samsung Pay Now In Singapore While this news has been well known for a few months now, Samsung Pay arrives in Singapore today (June...
Samsung Pay is officially online Down Under today (June 15), and according to Elle Kim, Samsung’s VP and head of global business development for Samsung Pay, this is just a first step. Samsung is doing payments now, but its vision is much bigger and more...
VocaLink is pairing up with four of the largest U.K. banks to launch the “Pay by Bank” mobile payments app, which will soon be available. Those four banks are Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax and Lloyds Bank. As part of the launch of the app, these...
While it’s been well known that Samsung Pay was coming to Singapore, it now has an official date: June 16. That means that come this Thursday, select Samsung smartphone owners can make a mobile payment using the mobile payments app. That is, for the users...
Chase Pay hasn’t launched yet for in-store or in-app payments, but it already has support from a major gas station chain. JPMorgan Chase announced yesterday (June 9) that it secured a multi-year deal with Shell to accept Chase Pay at all of its gas stations....
Would consumers rather have a master credential to rule them all in a digital world – or a “plus one” where a branded issuer credential can be embedded into another merchant app. NACHA has a point of view on this based on examining consumer behavior...
On August 15, 2012, MCX threw its hat into the mobile payments market ring when a group of retailers banded together to create its own, mobile-only, merchant-centric payments network. Nearly four long and painful years later, on June 28, 2016, the experiment that was MCX and CurrentC...
As retailers in the U.S. do what they can to prepare for the coming mobile payments revolution, other countries are seeing much higher adoption rates that could see them emerge as the flag-bearer of cash-free societies. In some nations, like China, for example, that future...
Samsung Pay has officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android...