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.

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UnionPay Opens API To International Developers

UnionPay Opens API To International Developers
UnionPay Opens API To International Developers
January 14, 2019  |  Payment Methods

UnionPay International, a subsidiary of Chinese financial services company UnionPay, is giving developers all around the world access to 18 of its mobile internet payment...

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Why Africa Is eCommerce’s Next Great Frontier
Why Africa Is eCommerce’s Next Great Frontier
January 14, 2019  |  eCommerce

Africa is home to 54 countries and hundreds of millions of smartphone users — young, tech-savvy and ready to embrace digital payments and banking. Emergent’s Saqib...

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Payments Takes The Driver’s Seat In Connected Cars
Payments Takes The Driver’s Seat In Connected Cars
January 09, 2019  |  Ecosystems

What still stands as a type of existential dread (or, in some cases, a period of freedom) is on the verge of becoming a new...

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Square Launches In-App Payments Kit For Sellers
Square Launches In-App Payments Kit For Sellers
January 09, 2019  |  Mobile Payments

Payment company Square, popular for its square-shaped mobile card reader, has released an in-app payments software development kit (SDK) that will give developers and sellers...

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Singtel’s Dash Plans Remittance Service; KinerjaPay Notches $200M Investment
Singtel’s Dash Plans Remittance Service; KinerjaPay Notches $200M Investment
January 08, 2019  |  Global Payments

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Singtel’s Dash’s plans to introduce a remittance service to...

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Today In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
Today In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
January 08, 2019  |  Today In Data

The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules are changing –...

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Visa, SiriusXM Pair On In-Car eWallets
Visa, SiriusXM Pair On In-Car eWallets
January 08, 2019  |  Mobile Payments

Visa and SiriusXM Connected Vehicles Services, a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings, have announced they are teaming up to launch a new in-vehicle payment solution....

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Alternative Payments Gain Global Traction, But Cash Remains Tough Foe
Alternative Payments Gain Global Traction, But Cash Remains Tough Foe
January 07, 2019  |  Payment Methods

The recent announcement that China’s UnionPay and Huawei are teaming up to bring Huawei Pay to Russia stands as the latest example that alternative payments...

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Data Dive, Supersize Edition: Warby Parker, Whole Foods And WhatsApp
Data Dive, Supersize Edition: Warby Parker, Whole Foods And WhatsApp
January 07, 2019  |  Data Dive

Just a few days into the new year, early indications are that 2019 could shape up to be a “more is more” kind of a year. Here are a few...

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