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.

Source: investopedia.com

Square Now Opens iPhone Tap to Pay to All US Sellers
Square Now Opens iPhone Tap to Pay to All US Sellers
September 28, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Square’s Early Access Program for Tap to Pay on iPhone is officially over and the payment option is now available to all sellers in the...

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Today in B2B Payments: Firms Deploy Payment Solutions, Biometrics
Today in B2B Payments: Firms Deploy Payment Solutions, Biometrics
September 27, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Today in B2B payments, Bank of America’s CashPro App adds a way to sign in without manually entering password credentials. Plus, German venture capital firm...

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DFM Taps Worldline for Instant Payments, CSM Partner
DFM Taps Worldline for Instant Payments, CSM Partner
September 27, 2022  |  Partnerships

Mobility sector financing partner DFM has tapped global payment services firm Worldline for instant payments and to serve as its clearing and settlement mechanism (CSM) partner. Under a five-year...

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Shopify Heralds Return to Offline Retail With ‘POS Go’
Shopify Heralds Return to Offline Retail With ‘POS Go’
September 27, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Shopify has unveiled POS Go, a point-of-sale (POS) hardware solution that lets merchants transact sales “from counter to curb.” “With POS Go, merchants can close...

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MoneyGram Helps e& Offer Mobile Wallets to 160M People
MoneyGram Helps e& Offer Mobile Wallets to 160M People
September 20, 2022  |  Mobile Wallets

MoneyGram is expanding its partnership with technology and investment group e&, a move the companies say will let nearly 160 million people use the e&...

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Adyen to Become First FinTech Platform to Add Block’s Cash App
Adyen to Become First FinTech Platform to Add Block’s Cash App
September 15, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Financial technology platform Adyen has partnered with Block’s mobile payment method Cash App to become the first such platform to offer Cash App outside of...

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Future FinTech Unit Collabs With Currencycloud on Remittance App
Future FinTech Unit Collabs With Currencycloud on Remittance App
September 12, 2022  |  Mobile Wallets

Future FinTech Labs, a subsidiary of blockchain player Future FinTech (FTFT), and Currencycloud, a global payments platform owned by Visa and licensed for money transmission...

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Panera Taps CarPlay to Bring Drive-Thru Ordering Into the Car
Panera Taps CarPlay to Bring Drive-Thru Ordering Into the Car
September 06, 2022  |  Restaurant innovation

Fast-casual chain Panera Bread, which has more than 2,100 bakery-cafes in the United States and Canada, is looking to drive digital orders by extending drive-thru...

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Mobile Money Earns Its Stripes in Ethiopia’s Telecom Liberalization
Mobile Money Earns Its Stripes in Ethiopia’s Telecom Liberalization
August 31, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Kenya has been at the forefront of Africa’s mobile money revolution ever since Safaricom launched the continent’s first mobile money platform M-Pesa, but Ethiopia has...

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