Samsung Pay is one of several key players in the ongoing mobile payments race, aiming to build up a loyal user base and a steady foundation of usability and reliability. This week, the payment platform took another step forward as it announced a new partnership. Wells Fargo...
We’ve said it before and we will say it again — when it comes to mobile payments, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, any more than there is one-size-fits-all payment method. But what is clear is that the mobile solution that will ultimately garner the critical mass...
It looks like Android Pay will be making its debut across the pond in the U.K. at the end of March. The launch follows a little under six months after the launch of Android Pay in its current instantiation in the U.S. last September. The...
Mobile World Congress 2016 is in the books, but the conversations and topics that drove the announcements of the week are sure to be driving the innovations for much of the next few years across the payments, tech, commerce, and security industries. But what were...
“Mobile Is Everything.” That was the theme of Mobile World Congress 2016. And as MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote in her column this week: “Mobile is everything because just about everyone in the world now has a mobile device … Mobile is also everything because those...
MasterCard’s Digital Enablement Services just got another partner to extend its tokenization services to issuing banks. MasterCard announced a deal with Giesecke & Devrient to use the MasterCard Digital Enablement Services along with C&D’s Convego CloudPay solution. What this solution does is enable G&D to implement industry-standard tokenization...
At the end of 2015, the Retail Payments Risk Forum, which is part of the Federal Reserve, promised the payments community it would provide its projections for the year 2016. And, as promised, the group delivered this week with eight bold projections that don’t give...
Yesterday, PYMNTS detailed what happened during Day 1 of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That included news like Visa’s car-based commerce deal, and its plans to expand Visa Checkout. It also detailed a series of news announcements from MasterCard, including details about its “selfie pay”...
MasterCard’s facial recognition payment option, commonly referred to as “selfie pay,” is expanding beyond tests in the U.S. and Netherlands. MasterCard announced its plans to roll out the option in the U.K., according to a Financial Times report. This technology enables consumers to use their...
