Six months in, Walmart Pay is officially available in every one of the 4,600+ Walmart stores in the U.S. That rollout, which started on a limited basis in December, literally in Walmart’s backyard, has steadily ramped up over the last six months. That was the big...
Today marks the last day of June 2016, which means we’re halfway through the year. And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Here’s...
Two different banks — JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Two different studies on the same topic — mobile banking and mobile payments. Two very different results. What Consumers Said JPMC’s study consisted of 1,008 respondents from a survey of 1,500 adults across the...
The second full week of June brought a flurry of news from many of the “majors” in the mobile payments ecosystem. Samsung Pay Now In Singapore While this news has been well known for a few months now, Samsung Pay arrives in Singapore today (June...
August 04, 2016
The latest news on mobile payments shows that the big banks are wanting in on the mobile wallet race, but are they already too far back in the pack? Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Here’s the latest news on […]
July 07, 2016
Six months in, Walmart Pay is officially available in every one of the 4,600+ Walmart stores in the U.S. That rollout, which started on a limited basis in December, literally in...
June 02, 2016
There’s one particular country that’s been creating a lot of attention in the mobile payments ecosystem in the past week. Singapore. It’s a country with an estimated population of just...
June 09, 2016
On August 15, 2012, MCX threw its hat into the mobile payments market ring when a group of retailers banded together to create its own, mobile-only, merchant-centric payments network. Nearly four long and painful years later, on June 28, 2016, the experiment that was MCX and CurrentC will come to an end. Users’ accounts will no longer work […]
February 16, 2016
LG Pay won’t be making its debut at the Mobile World Congress this year, an LG official has confirmed. Speaking to The Korea Times, LG said it has decided to hold...
September 28, 2015
The highly anticipated launch of the third big mobile “Pay” player is finally here. Just weeks after Android Pay announced its debut into the mobile payments ecosystem and just about...
June 10, 2015
Less than two months after its rollout, One Touch for Web is expanding to merchants and consumers internationally, starting with Canada and the U.K. The next countries to experience One Touch...
