Mobile Commerce

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Tio Network’s Cloud-Based Silver Lining
April 01, 2014

TIO Networks’ cloud-based biller platform has faced some rough times of late with declining revenues. But it’s recent acquisition of Globex Financial Services appears to offer a much-needed silver lining to its plans for growth and improved margins. Go inside its latest earnings report.

Optimal Payments Combines MasterPass and NETBANX
March 31, 2014

Optimal Payments announced March 27 it has integrated the MasterPass digital wallet into its NETBANX merchant platform. The platform moves payments forward by allowing the consumer to safely store all their payment, store card, loyalty, shipping and billing address details in one place and gives...

Commentary
‘Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, Whose Digital Wallet Will Be Used Most Of All?’
March 31, 2014

The Fed’s new mobile survey data contains a treasure trove of information on how mobile payments and digital wallets are doing. To guide us through the mass of data MPD CEO Karen Webster relies on a well-known and highly rigorous statistical technique to ferret out...

Mobile Commerce
Kenyan Bankers Association Sticks With EMV Integration Schedule
March 31, 2014

The Kenya Bankers Association last week said it will not extend its March 31 deadline to migrate all payment cards issued in the country to the EMV smart card platform.

TSYS: The Big Gap Between Mobile Wallets And Their Users
March 31, 2014

Use of mobile devices instead of cards to facilitate point-of-sale transaction is a goal that continues to challenge industry players seeking to make it happen. An upcoming TSYS white paper will examine the issues affecting mobile wallets and what the industry must do to address...

Mobile Commerce
PayPal Expands ‘Selfie’ Mobile Payments Into Canada
March 31, 2014

Canadian consumers reportedly now can pay for food and drinks through their PayPal app at 50 Toronto locations. PayPal is enabling the locations to use its smartphone app to pay, joining others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia that already have the option, said The...

Cross-border Payments
China, New Zealand See mPayment Competition Differently
March 28, 2014

China appears embedded in a competitive battle between state-run banks and such large Internet companies as Alibaba over control of the nation’s mobile-payments market. Regulators there appear to be moving in the banks’ favor. Not so, apparently, is the case in New Zealand, where new...

Mobile Commerce
Mobile Payments … Same Old, Same Old
March 28, 2014

The payments and banking industries are making progress in getting more U.S. consumers to use their mobile devices to access bank and card-account information, a new Federal Reserve Board of Governors report released March 25 shows. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

ZipZap Hits Pause On Bitcoin Purchases
March 26, 2014

UK cash-to-bitcoin transfers through ZipZap have been put on pause. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...