Mobile Payments

A mobile payment is a money payment made for a product or service through a portable electronic device such as a tablet or cell phone. Mobile payment technology can also be used to send money to friends or family members, such as with the applications PayPal and Venmo.

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Rewards and Preferred Payment Methods Help Merchants Lure Mobile-First Shoppers
Rewards and Preferred Payment Methods Help Merchants Lure Mobile-First Shoppers
March 20, 2025  |  Mobile Commerce

The rise of the click-and-mortar shopper, with mobile devices as the key conduit to commerce no matter the channel, has given clues to what consumers...

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Visa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards
Visa to Add Tokenization and Digital Wallet Capabilities to Fleet Cards
March 13, 2025  |  B2B Payments

Visa will soon add tokenization and custom provisioning for mobile transactions to its Fleet cards, enabling issuers and FinTechs to integrate encrypted and tokenized card...

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Visa Offers Mobile Commercial Payments Tool to Emirates NBD
Visa Offers Mobile Commercial Payments Tool to Emirates NBD
March 05, 2025  |  Partnerships

Visa teamed with Dubai-based bank Emirates NBD to launch a commercial payment solution. The partnership makes Emirates NBD the first bank in the United Arab...

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Tap to Phone Surge Creates Opportunity for Tap-to-Commerce Expansion
Tap to Phone Surge Creates Opportunity for Tap-to-Commerce Expansion
March 03, 2025  |  VISA

Consumers love to tap and businesses — particularly small businesses — are all in.  That’s the message from Visa, who announced Monday (March 3) that...

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Shift4 Explores Tencent and Alipay Pacts After Acquiring Global Blue
Shift4 Explores Tencent and Alipay Pacts After Acquiring Global Blue
February 19, 2025  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Payments company Shift4 acquired tax-free shopping provider Global Blue in a deal that represents about $2.5 billion in enterprise value. Pennsylvania-based Shift4 gets access to...

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Retail’s Digital Tipping Point: Payments Plus Rewards With a Lot More Mobile
Retail’s Digital Tipping Point: Payments Plus Rewards With a Lot More Mobile
February 10, 2025  |  Retail

Before the pandemic pushed us all to live life electronically, going shopping was an active pursuit. Consumers browsed, budgeted, planned, and even dressed up to...

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What to Watch for as CFPB Stops Rulemaking in Its Tracks
What to Watch for as CFPB Stops Rulemaking in Its Tracks
February 07, 2025  |  CFPB

To say it’s been an eventful week for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau might be an understatement. Last weekend, President Donald Trump fired CFPB Director...

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Corpay to Acquire Brazil-Based Gringo to Expand Vehicle Payments Business
Corpay to Acquire Brazil-Based Gringo to Expand Vehicle Payments Business
February 04, 2025  |  Acquisitions

Corporate payments company Corpay announced Monday (Feb. 3) that it plans to acquire Brazil-based vehicle registration and compliance payment company Gringo. Gringo offers a “super...

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Mollie Expands Tap to Pay on iPhone Availability in Europe
Mollie Expands Tap to Pay on iPhone Availability in Europe
January 28, 2025  |  Mobile Payments

Mollie has expanded its Tap to Pay on iPhone capability to merchants in three more European countries: Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom. With this...

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