Your phone can handle the checkout. Your hand may still reach for the same old card. Twelve years after Apple Pay arrived, mobile wallets are gaining users, but familiar payment habits still have a firm grip on the register. “Apple Pay @12: Mobile Wallets Gain...
By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a better user experience. Mastercard Wallet Pay is “designed to foster interoperability and innovation” for digital...
Samsung South Africa has added a new QR payment feature to its digital wallet. Scan to Pay is designed to offer Samsung Galaxy users an alternative to physical cards and make checkout quicker, the tech company announced Friday (Aug. 28). “Scan to Pay is designed...
Walmart’s move to NFC lands as mobile wallets are taking a larger role at the register, giving one of the prominent remaining retail holdouts in the United States the same contactless payment infrastructure already common across much of the market. Beginning Monday (Aug. 24), Walmart...
August 17, 2026
Digital wallets have made the phone a familiar place to pay. X Money is testing whether a social platform can claim a place in that payment routine. Consumers already have wallets on their phones, stored credentials at merchants and payment apps that reduce the work required to complete a transaction. But success is no layup: […]
May 18, 2026
Digital bank customers are not just experimenting with new payment methods. They are increasingly reshaping what mainstream payments behavior looks like, particularly as mobile-first consumers lean into digital wallets and...
May 12, 2026
Apple Pay has spent 11 years teaching consumers to tap their phones at checkout, but the bigger story may be how many rivals are now benefiting from that lesson. A...
April 24, 2026
A credit card’s place in a consumer’s wallet is now shaped as much by its app as by its rate, perks or brand, a shift that looks especially strong among...
October 20, 2026
Automaker General Motors has begun offering Apple Wallet car key support in some vehicles. The integration went into effect last month, and was flagged Monday (Oct. 9) in a report on the website MacRumors. It applies to select Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC vehicle models, with other General Motors (GM) models to follow eventually, that report said. Apple Wallet’s car key feature […]
September 10, 2026
By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a...
August 30, 2026
Samsung South Africa has added a new QR payment feature to its digital wallet. Scan to Pay is designed to offer Samsung Galaxy users an alternative to physical cards and...
July 24, 2026
Samsung Wallet will be expanded to embrace stablecoins, Lee Dinham, product specialist at Samsung, said Wednesday (July 22). Speaking at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, Dinham said, “This will make Samsung...
