Mobile Payments

A mobile payment is a money payment made for a product or service through a portable electronic device such as a tablet or cell phone. Mobile payment technology can also be used to send money to friends or family members, such as with the applications PayPal and Venmo.

Source: investopedia.com

Vodafone Bails On Libra

Vodafone Bails On Libra
Vodafone Bails On Libra
January 21, 2020  |  Facebook

Another company has left the Libra Association, a conglomerate of companies meant to help get Facebook’s cryptocurrency off the ground and handle regulatory initiatives and...

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Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance
Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance
January 21, 2020  |  Retail

Mark Twain famously said there are three kinds of untruths: lies, damned lies and statistics. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators
How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators
January 21, 2020  |  Restaurant innovation

One of the biggest questions that promises to play out in the larger world of restaurants — whether quick-service operations or others — is who will...

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Bitcoin Daily: IDC Identifies Terror-Linked Hamas Bitcoin; Venezuela Opens Crypto Casino
Bitcoin Daily: IDC Identifies Terror-Linked Hamas Bitcoin; Venezuela Opens Crypto Casino
January 21, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The International Data Corp.’s Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC-ICT) has discovered a bitcoin front linked to Hamas that is associated with Iran, and is used...

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Why Merchants Should Look For Payments Orchestration
Why Merchants Should Look For Payments Orchestration
January 20, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

FinTechs are helping merchants coordinate all of the different components that a payment entails with payments orchestration. Modo CEO Bruce Parker told PYMNTS that the term...

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Can Amazon Make Waving The Future Of Payments?
Can Amazon Make Waving The Future Of Payments?
January 20, 2020  |  Amazon

The rumors about hand-based payments out of Amazon have been building for the last few months.  In early September 2019, reports emerged that Amazon was testing...

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Visa’s Chief Risk Officer On Securing Commerce In The 2020s
Visa’s Chief Risk Officer On Securing Commerce In The 2020s
January 20, 2020  |  VISA

Futureproofing is the process of creating systems and processes resilient enough to hold their value in the face of an unknown future. It’s also about...

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Deep Dive: How BNPL Could Boost The Future Of Mobile Shopping
Deep Dive: How BNPL Could Boost The Future Of Mobile Shopping
January 17, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments
What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments
January 17, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

These days, it seems like you can hardly go a minute without hearing about the rise of 5G, the spread of facial recognition or how...

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