Robust economic growth in the U.S. and United Kingdom, combined with a gradual recovery in the Eurozone, should help strengthen global economic activity over the next year, according to the latest HSBC Trade Confidence Index. However, rising geopolitical tensions could weaken such projections. Get the...
“Tokenization is a step towards the realization of a payment becoming embedded within a user experience,” says Paul Bridgewater, TSYS Group Executive, Global Product & Innovation. Now that Apple Pay has officially been announced, the pressure is on everyone in the ecosystem to think differently....
PAX Global Technology Limited, which makes a popular NFC terminal. has embraced Apple Pay. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
Samsung and Alipay are partnering on payment biometric authentication, rolling out what the pair calls the first Fast Identification Online (FIDO) ready system in the Far East. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
There’s little debate that Apple Pay is going to sharply boost mobile payment security. After all, replacing signature or a 4-digit shoulder-surfing-vulnerable PIN with a biometric authentication is a big step in the right direction. No authentication system is perfect, but being more secure than...
At Apple’s announcement of its Apple Pay mobile payments initiative on Sept. 9, something was missing: an accompanying loyalty rewards plan that some Apple observers had heard the company was developing. But despite Apple’s silence, chatter about an Apple rewards program is still growing, Yahoo...
Starting in October, customers will be able to pay for purchases directly from their iPhones and Apple Watches, thanks to Apple’s new mobile payment service — and the Navy Federal Credit Union is among the financial institutions partnering with Apple for the roll-out of Apple...
The big question for Apple Pay is whether Apple can succeed where others have failed and take contactless payments from a niche service to more mainstream adoption, according to Tech Radar. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Forget the Apple Watch and iPhone 6. Apple Pay is Apple’s next biggest innovation, according to Advertising Age. The reason: Touch ID has the potential to finally push mobile over the hump in the U.S. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
