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

UnionPay Comes To North America With Merchants Now Accepting QuickPass In Canada

UnionPay Comes To North America With Merchants Now Accepting QuickPass In Canada
UnionPay Comes To North America With Merchants Now Accepting QuickPass In Canada
August 17, 2016  |  Mobile Payments

UnionPay International announced on Tuesday (Aug. 16) that several daily-spending merchants in Canada will start accepting UnionPay mobile QuickPass, marking the debut of the service...

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Visa To Launch mVisa In Nigeria
Visa To Launch mVisa In Nigeria
August 17, 2016  |  Cross-border Payments

Visa is said to be in advanced talks with some of the big banks in Nigeria and gearing up to roll out mVisa, its mobile payments...

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Compass Plus Gets Aggregator Accreditation For Faster Payments In UK
Compass Plus Gets Aggregator Accreditation For Faster Payments In UK
August 16, 2016  |  Real-Time Payments

Compass Plus, the electronic payments software company, announced on Monday (Aug. 15) that it has been certified as one of only five companies to gain...

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List
Sizzle Or Fizzle: Restaurants Rule, FireEye Flounders And Lending Club Is Back On The List
August 12, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

The Olympic athletes are undoubtedly the biggest Sizzle of all this week, and Team USA has given new meaning to the word. The focus and...

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PYMNTS Mobile User Data Hints At Differentiation
PYMNTS Mobile User Data Hints At Differentiation
August 11, 2016  |  Mobile Payments

It’s amazing what you can find when you dig into the data. We have tens of thousands of data points from questions we’ve asked 4,000...

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Samsung Denies Samsung Pay Can Be Hacked Via The Tokenization Process
Samsung Denies Samsung Pay Can Be Hacked Via The Tokenization Process
August 10, 2016  |  Cybersecurity

Samsung is out on Tuesday (Aug. 9) denying that Samsung Pay can be hacked after a security researcher demonstrated how it can be done at a...

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Ant Financial’s Alipay Customers Get Access To European Offline Merchants Thanks To New Deal
Ant Financial’s Alipay Customers Get Access To European Offline Merchants Thanks To New Deal
August 10, 2016  |  Partnerships

Ant Financial Services, the financial services affiliate of Alibaba Group, has reportedly inked a deal with Ingenico of France to push its mobile payment system...

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What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments
What Customer Intimacy Has To Do With Payments
August 10, 2016  |  Payments Innovation

What have the powerhouses Starbucks and Airbnb managed to do better than anyone else? Establish customer intimacy, according to Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. Clerico...

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