Mobile Payments

PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: MCX’s CurrentC Pivot
May 17, 2016

What’s next for MCX and its CurrentC mobile payments product? Well, according to a statement released by MCX CEO Brian Mooney late yesterday (May 16), via their PR rep, MCX and its CurrentC mobile payments product is folding its tent. But it’s not the end for...

Say Bye-Bye To MCX CurrentC
May 17, 2016

Today, the mobile payments field has been reduced by one. A statement released by MCX CEO Brian Mooney late yesterday (May 16), via their PR rep, said that MCX and its CurrentC mobile payments product is folding its tent. The decision, said the written statement,...

Mobile Payments
Barclays’ Mobile Payments App To Be In Play Soon
May 13, 2016

It looks like the Barclays Mobile Banking app will be going head to head against Android Pay in the very near future. The U.K. bank announced on Thursday (May 12) that it will soon introduce a new capability to its mobile app that will enable...

Can Voice Authentication Tip The Mobile Payments Scale?
May 12, 2016

Could it be that the best way to authenticate the consumer is by leveraging two things that everyone has — their voice and a mobile phone? That’s inspiration for one company: SayPay, a voice recognition and biometric authentication solutions provider for financial transactions. It uses its...

Mobile Payments
Tap-And-Pay On The Rise In Europe, According To Visa
May 11, 2016

According to the latest data from Visa Europe, one in five in-person card transactions are now being made with a contactless card. That translates to roughly 3 billion tap-and-pay transactions in Europe over the course of the last 12 months, tripling levels from a year...

BBVA Supports Android Pay, Samsung Pay
May 05, 2016

BBVA Compass has thrown its support behind two major mobile payment services: Android Pay and Samsung Pay. The financial institution announced that it has now made the services available for its cardholders, underscoring “BBVA Compass’ drive to provide more and varied ways for its customers to bank...

Alibaba’s Mobile Snapshot: Quarterly Earnings Data
May 05, 2016

When Alibaba releases its quarterly earnings today (May 5) just before its call with analysts at 7:30 a.m. EST, there’s going to be one sure topic that Alibaba will likely rattle off some new, impressive figures about. Mobile — and how it’s driving Alibaba’s eCommerce business...

Samsung SDS Partners On Mobile Payments Solution
May 03, 2016

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, and Samsung SDS, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, announced a new partnership aimed at providing consumers with a frictionless mobile banking/payment solution. What this entails is using Samsung SDS FIDO Authentication to enable banking and mobile payments customers to...

OmnyPay’s Take On Igniting Mobile Payments
May 02, 2016

Igniting mobile payments starts and ends with two distinct groups: merchants and consumers. After all, without merchants willing to embrace the concept, consumers won’t use them. When it comes to enabling mobile payments solutions, there are plenty of solutions on the market. The trick, of...