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)

Holiday 2021: Pent-Up Consumer Demand, Test of In-Store Experience For Retailers
Holiday 2021: Pent-Up Consumer Demand, Test of In-Store Experience For Retailers
September 15, 2021  |  Retail

Rising inflation and the continued spread of COVID-19 may be grabbing headlines and denting consumer sentiment, but former Saks CEO Steve Sadove said he’s confident...

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Xendit Snags $150M in Series C Funding for SE Asia Digital Payment Infrastructure Enhancements
Xendit Snags $150M in Series C Funding for SE Asia Digital Payment Infrastructure Enhancements
September 15, 2021  |  International

Southeast Asia payments platform Xendit on Tuesday (Sept. 14) finalized a Series C funding round that generated $150 million, in the process cracking the $1...

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UK’s PawaPay, Fresh With $9M Seed Funding, Eyes Africa Expansion
UK’s PawaPay, Fresh With $9M Seed Funding, Eyes Africa Expansion
September 07, 2021  |  Mobile Payments

Like many founders in the African mobile money space, PawaPay CEO Nikolai Barnwell sees endless opportunities for growth as people increasingly embrace mobile money as a safer and...

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Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in the US Use Apple Pay In-Store When They Can
Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in the US Use Apple Pay...
September 07, 2021  |  Apple Pay

Remember this? It was about seven years ago – Sept. 9, 2014 – when Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s WWDC and introduced Apple...

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Remember Commuters? They Still Want To Be Connected While They Drive
Remember Commuters? They Still Want To Be Connected While They Drive
September 06, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

As drivers hit the road over the long holiday weekend to celebrate Labor Day and the waning days of summer, mobile digital devices in connected...

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Latin America’s Market Dynamics Can Help Nuvemshop Leapfrog Into Pole Position
Latin America’s Market Dynamics Can Help Nuvemshop Leapfrog Into Pole Position
September 02, 2021  |  eCommerce

Kushki Chief Executive Aron Schwarzkopf sees Latin America as one of the last frontiers in terms of digitization of payments. It’s a place that relies...

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BitPay CEO’s Crypto Prescription for New Regs: Go ‘Carefully And Cautiously’
BitPay CEO’s Crypto Prescription for New Regs: Go ‘Carefully And Cautiously’
September 01, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

The initial design of bitcoin was to be a payment method, a unit of currency. Along the way in the decade-plus since its creation by...

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FIs Must De-Clutter Online Banking to Enable Fast, Fluid Transactions Clients Demand
FIs Must De-Clutter Online Banking to Enable Fast, Fluid Transactions Clients Demand
September 01, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

Customers today are demanding more compelling user experiences from their banks. “They’re demanding more access, they’re demanding higher levels of performance,” Fastly Director of Serverless...

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Easebuzz Debuts Service Simplifying SMB Payments
Easebuzz Debuts Service Simplifying SMB Payments
August 31, 2021  |  B2B Payments

Digital payment solution provider Easebuzz has offered a new way to simplify payments for smaller businesses’ online payments, called EasyCollect, a press release from the...

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