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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Mastercard’s Gerber: Innovation Needs Consumer Trust To Advance The Digital Economy
Mastercard’s Gerber: Innovation Needs Consumer Trust To Advance The Digital Economy
July 12, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

“The boat has left the harbor and is in the open seas,” Mastercard Executive Vice President of Security and Cyber Innovation Johan Gerber told PYMNTS’...

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How Intelligent Friction Trips Up The Fraudsters
How Intelligent Friction Trips Up The Fraudsters
July 09, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

“The criminals are always opportunistic.” Featurespace Senior Vice President of Global Product Management Dena Hamilton told PYMNTS that the scams are proliferating and mushrooming across...

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Using Data To ‘Take The Handcuffs’ Off Auto-Refill Subscriptions For Consumers
Using Data To ‘Take The Handcuffs’ Off Auto-Refill Subscriptions For Consumers
July 09, 2021  |  Subscription Commerce

Six, 20-pound bags of food stacked up in the corner don’t have to mean that the owner has a lot of dogs. More likely, it’s...

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Visa Expands Ecosystem For Crypto-Linked Cards As Spending Tops $1B
Visa Expands Ecosystem For Crypto-Linked Cards As Spending Tops $1B
July 08, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Visa said it had struck partnerships with more than 50 cryptocurrency platforms and exchanges to allow end-users to spend digital currencies at 70 million merchants...

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Subscription Companies Use AI To Keep False Declines To Record Lows
Subscription Companies Use AI To Keep False Declines To Record Lows
July 08, 2021  |  Artificial Intelligence

You could call it the false decline fallout. That’s where a good and functioning eCommerce subscription relationship suddenly goes haywire due to the unexpected and...

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Deep Dive: How Offering Real-Time Payments Can Help Merchants Meet Mobile-First Customers’ Needs
Deep Dive: How Offering Real-Time Payments Can Help Merchants Meet Mobile-First Customers’ Needs
July 07, 2021  |  Banking

The pandemic has led to innumerable changes in how consumers and businesses conduct daily tasks, _impacting everything from how they pay their bills to the...

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Paytronix CEO: McDonald’s Rewards Program May Not Be The Latecomer It Seems to Be
Paytronix CEO: McDonald’s Rewards Program May Not Be The Latecomer It Seems to Be
July 07, 2021  |  Loyalty & Rewards

McDonald’s may seem like a latecomer to the digital loyalty game, but it may be a little more complicated than that. The company announced in...

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How To Stop Online Fraud: Crush The Fraudsters’ ROI
How To Stop Online Fraud: Crush The Fraudsters’ ROI
July 07, 2021  |  Security & Fraud

There isn’t much good to be said about the motives and mindset of cybercriminals, given that they tend to be focused on fraudulently depriving others...

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Wish Gains Dutch Central Bank Payments License, Eyes EU
Wish Gains Dutch Central Bank Payments License, Eyes EU
July 06, 2021  |  Payment Methods

The European Union spans 27 countries and nearly 447 million people – which, to put it mildly, implies a significant number of payments. To that...

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