by Payment Solution Pros | Nov 1, 2016 | Cybersecurity, Data Security, Digital Wallets, FinTech, Mobile Wallets, smartphone
Mobile wallets check off several boxes on consumers’ payments wish list: ease, convenience and options. Yet, mobile wallets also signify new opportunities for fraudsters. As card-free commerce becomes more enticing for consumers and businesses alike, banks and mobile...
by Payment Solution Pros | Oct 27, 2016 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Payments, Mobile Trends, smartphone
Remember those times when you were late at work and forgot to pick up dinner for your family, fill gas or pick up baby food? Mastercard is partnering with General (GM) and IBM to make sure that these scenarios are a thing of the past. Come next year, your car will...
by Payment Solution Pros | Oct 19, 2016 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Ordering, Mobile Payments, Mobile Trends, smartphone
The sheer number of options out there for mobile wallet systems should clue most anyone in that this is one big market. New word from Grand View Research, meanwhile, underscores just how big this market is poised to get, and when we’re talking numbers in the trillions...
by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Commerce, news, NFC
At a recent HCE Payments conference attended by Helixion there was an interesting debate about what form would drive contactless payments forward: mobile or wearables. One opinion was that it would not be the mobile phone but “wearable devices”...
by admin | Dec 1, 2015 | Digital Wallets, news, NFC
Launching in the US, China, Brazil, and Switzerland next year Swatch has announced that it's bringing contactless payments to its forthcoming Bellamy smartwatch in the US next year. The Swiss company, which is the largest watchmaker in the world by...
by admin | Nov 3, 2015 | Digital Wallets, Mobile Commerce, news
Digital wallets present a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Neither merchants nor consumers want to dive in head first: Consumers are hesitant to give up their physical cards for a number of reasons including security and ease-of-use. And merchants aren't willing...