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Android Pay is Now Live in Canada with Mastercard
June 1st, 2017
Today, Google confirmed that Android Pay, enabling contactless mobile payments with Android-based devices, is now live in Canada. It provides millions of Mastercard cardholders with yet another innovative, fast and secure way to pay, wherever Mastercard contactless payments are ...
Android Pay vs Apple Pay: who’s winning the mobile payment battle?
December 22nd, 2016
Apple and Google have been competing in just about every field of technology for some time now – from maps to music – and mobile payments is no exception. Here we’re going to take a close look at how ...
Android Pay launches in the UK
May 19th, 2016
Google’s Android Pay has launched in the UK, enabling millions of Brits to make contactless instore and in-app payments with their handsets. Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide Building Society are ...
MasterCard to Bring Android Pay to Cardholders in the UK
March 28th, 2016
Millions of MasterCard cardholders and Android device owners in the UK will soon have additional safe and secure ways to make mobile payments and purchases, as Google today announced it will launch Android Pay in this market. HSBC, Lloyds, MBNA and M&S Bank ...
MasterCard Delivers Android Pay to Cardholders in the U.S
September 14th, 2015
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) will power safe and secure payments with Android Pay Millions of MasterCard cardholders will soon have even more ways to make safe and convenient mobile payments. Today, Google announced that they are beginning to ...
Apple sued over monopoly on contactless payments
July 26th, 2022
Tech giant Apple is facing a lawsuit in the US over allegations that its monopoly on contactless payments made using iPhones constitutes anti-competitive conduct. iPhone users can only make contactless payments through Apple Pay, while users of Android-powered smartphones ...
Mobile payment expects to grow 13% globally
February 27th, 2018
In 2018, more than a third of smartphone users worldwide will use their mobile phone to pay for a purchase a physical point of sale (POS) at least once every six, eMarketer estimates. The company analysed quantitative and qualitative ...
Study: UK consumers more likely to use proximity mobile payments than US counterparts
December 27th, 2017
The future of mobile payments appears more bright in the U.K. than the U.S. thanks to consumers’ familiarity with contactless payments, according to a report from Auriemma Consulting Group. “U.K. consumers were introduced to contactless payments in 2007,” Jaclyn ...
Biometric mobile payments to hit 1T transactions, $51B in revenue by 2022
December 6th, 2017
Biometric transactions may soon replace cash payments: By 2022, mobile biometric solutions will authenticate more than 1 trillion transactions annually, driving the market to $50.6 billion in annual revenue that year, according to a new report from Acuity Market ...
In-store UK mobile payments jump 336% but still rare, report finds
August 17th, 2017
The widespread acceptance of mobile payments in physical retail stores in the UK has led to significant growth in the number of transactions, a new report has found. In the first six months of this year, the value of ...
