The modern credit card’s history stretches back to just after World War II, when the Charg-It card came out of Brooklyn, tied to a single bank. Account holders could use the cards at a few local merchants, and the bank paid the merchants and billed the cardholders....
China’s Ant Group is reportedly looking to expand use of its payments product Alipay+. “What we found is that people want to use their home e-wallets when they travel abroad. So they don’t want to have to load their card into another app that they don’t know as well,” Douglas...
Whether shopping online or in person, an increasing number of consumers are embracing digital wallets. But the appeal of digital wallets — which include Apple Pay, Google Wallet, PayPal and others — doesn’t end with shopping. Digital wallets can also provide other features intended to make the lives of users easier, such as...
Alipay+ unveiled a cross-border payments initiative in a move to boost Hong Kong’s tourism and commerce sector. The platform facilitates transactions for users of 14 overseas mobile wallets and bank apps from nine countries and regions. Among the eWallets and bank apps newly introduced to the city’s landscape are Hipay from Mongolia, Malaysia’s MyPB by Public Bank Berhad and Touch ’n...
Consumers are using mobile wallets more, but it is taking a while for them to grow accustomed to utilizing the technology to pay in stores, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals. By the Numbers The PYMNTS Intelligence report last year, “The Mobile Wallet Challenge: Replacing Physical With Digital,”...
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, represents a cohort deeply intertwined with digital technologies. “They are described as the first digitally native generation — a generation that has lived with mobile phones and apps for most of their lives. The iPhone was introduced 17...
Apple’s reign as the world’s top smartphone maker was short-lived. The iPhone maker supplanted Samsung late last year as the number-one seller of the devices, though Samsung regained the crown during this year’s first quarter, according to a report Sunday (April 14) by IDC. That...
According to PYMNTS Intelligence, 95 million consumers would welcome a single mobile app to help manage their banking and shopping activities. This is one key finding in the report “Consumer Interest in an Everyday App,” which surveyed 3,320 consumers in the United States and Australia...
Digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Wallet provide consumers with convenient and secure ways to make in-store and online purchases without having to put sensitive credit or debit card data at risk. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Can New Use Cases Drive Consumer Use of...