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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Play2Pay CEO Says Gamification May Be The Future Of Payments
Play2Pay CEO Says Gamification May Be The Future Of Payments
July 29, 2021  |  Payment Methods

Log on. Choose a game, play the game. Watch a video. Complete a survey. Get paid for it all — and reduce your smartphone bill —...

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PayPal: Venmo Volumes Grow 58 Pct YoY To $58B
PayPal: Venmo Volumes Grow 58 Pct YoY To $58B
July 29, 2021  |  Earnings

PayPal reported second-quarter results Wednesday (July 28) that showed the great digital shift had boosted eCommerce fortunes and that peer-to-peer (P2P) payments during the period...

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‘The House Wins’ When It Comes To Casinos Offering Mobile Disbursements
‘The House Wins’ When It Comes To Casinos Offering Mobile Disbursements
July 28, 2021  |  Disbursements

Consumers are growing to expect instant disbursements across all industries, and the gaming and gambling industry is no exception. Numerous U.S. states are moving toward...

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Visa Payments Volume Up 34 Pct With Debit ‘The Engine Of Cash Digitization’
Visa Payments Volume Up 34 Pct With Debit ‘The Engine Of Cash Digitization’
July 27, 2021  |  Earnings

Whether it’s surging eCommerce transactions, a rebound in face-to-face interactions or a pop in touchless purchases, global payments giant Visa got a bit of bump...

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Square Aims To Do For Small Business Banking What Its Card Readers Did For POS
Square Aims To Do For Small Business Banking What Its Card Readers Did For POS
July 27, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

In everyday terms, a decade is only 3,650 days. You may not look all that different today than you did in 2011, save a few...

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Afterpay Sees BNPL Pact With Westfield Shopping Centers As Brick-and-Mortar Booster
Afterpay Sees BNPL Pact With Westfield Shopping Centers As Brick-and-Mortar Booster
July 27, 2021  |  Buy Now Pay Later

For most Americans, buy now, pay later (BNPL) is still mostly an online shopping experience. That is where they first encountered the increasingly popular payment...

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China Bank Wants Digital Yuan To Dominate Alipay And WeChat Pay
China Bank Wants Digital Yuan To Dominate Alipay And WeChat Pay
July 26, 2021  |  Payment Methods

The People’s Bank of China wants Ant Group and Tencent Holdings Ltd., which operate payment networks Alipay and WeChat Pay, respectively, to help it develop...

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Retailers Find New Revenue Streams In Banking-As-A-Service Models
Retailers Find New Revenue Streams In Banking-As-A-Service Models
July 26, 2021  |  Digital-First Banking

In the rise of the platform economy, the super app looms large. The lines between services and brands that once were simple and well-defined —...

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Vodafone Considers Spinning Off M-Pesa Money Service
Vodafone Considers Spinning Off M-Pesa Money Service
July 23, 2021  |  Mobile Commerce

Vodafone could spin off its popular African mobile money service M-Pesa, the company’s CEO told Bloomberg News on Friday (July 23). M-Pesa, which offers peer-to-peer...

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