In this edition of The Mobile Wallet Report PowaTag CEO Dan Wagner explains his ambitious plans for Bluetooth beacons, we look at US Bank’s mobile shopping platform, and Westpac tells us how it aims to offer the best digital banking experience in the world.
Activist investor Carl Icahn says PayPal should be split off from eBay as a separate business, MasterCard explains its plans for remittances, and Swedbank is to close its QR code payments service.
94 mobile payments startups raised a total of $287m last year, CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal tells The Mobile Wallet Report. Also, Jordan is getting ready to launch a national mobile payment platform and BLE beacon interest runs high at the NRF Big Show.
Amazon pushes into payments, PayPal details the technology it will be using to enable customers to make payments at Discover merchants, and Loop unveils a mobile payment solution that works with standard magnetic stripe terminals and uses NFC technology to secure users’ card data.
As MasterCard, Visa and American Express propose a new digital payment standard, Mike Matan, head of global network business at AmEx, and Jim McCarthy, global head of innovation and strategic partnerships at Visa, comment on the technology options, rollout timing and thinking behind the plan.
In this edition of The Mobile Wallet Report we reveal how the launch of Apple’s new iPhones and iOS7 gives a major boost to Bluetooth Low Energy technology and fingerprint biometrics; PayPal is to offer merchants a Bluetooth LE device with WiFi capability to process “hands-free payments”; a second Luxembourg bank integrates low-cost mobile payments platform Digicash into its mobile banking service; and more…
In this edition of The Mobile Wallet Report we reveal how Weve has set out its vision for a loyalty-led mobile wallet — without support for payments; how marketing technology provider Vibes’ annual Mobile Wallet Consumer Report supports Weve’s viewpoint; how a MasterCard debit card with a built-in LCD display has proven popular among customers of Poland’s Getin Bank, despite the bank charging customers for the cards; and more…
In this edition of The Mobile Wallet Report we reveal how Isis has partnered with Amex for its NFC mobile payments rollout in the US; how Pulse financial institutions and retailers will be offering their own branded mobile wallets to customers; and more…
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