Transaction Tracker news and trends

Mobile Pay Players Focused On Biometrics Authentication
Cool // July 09, 2015

When payments pundits start talking mobile payments, there’s always two hot topics that are top of mind: biometrics and authentication. Authentication, of course, has always been the “hot-off-the-press” type of buzzword that industry experts have debated. This includes the best methods — and technologies — to...

PYPL Countdown, Google Payments And Facebook Pay
Exclusive Series // July 02, 2015

Ah, summer vacation.  But what a foreign concept for the biggest mobile payments players. PayPal will soon be independent, Google is crafting a new platform to manage all of its users’ mobile payments data, and Alibaba is possibly acquiring another mobile payments player. There is literally no rest for...

Meet Europe’s Latest Digital Payments Network
Cool // June 25, 2015

One of the biggest hurdles of mobile payment adoption — besides breaking existing consumer habits — is the fact that there simply isn’t a consistency about where or how consumers can actually pay using their mobile devices. Dinube is Europe’s latest digital payments network that says...

Why Samsung Pay Got Delayed
Hmmm // June 04, 2015

Within 24 hours of a report that suggested that Samsung was not really all that concerned with Android Pay, came the news that the launch of its mobile payments solution, Samsung Pay, would be delayed. What was initially scheduled to be a summer 2015 rollout...