Search Results for: mobile wallet
PayPal Eyes Growth in New Alliances With Vodafone, America Movil
February 22nd, 2016
Mobile carriers are gateway to 740 million potential customers Payments business looks beyond e-commerce for revenue PayPal Holdings Inc. forged new mobile-wallet partnerships with telecommunications giants Vodafone Group Plc in Europe and America Movil SAB in Latin America, ...
Visa Puts Consumers in Charge of Security
February 9th, 2016
Visa Consumer Transaction Controls to Allow Consumers to Direct How, Where, and When Their Credit and Debit Accounts Can Be Used Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), a global leader in payments, is introducing a new service to help Visa issuers empower consumers ...
Japan’s Largest Bank developed its own digital currency
February 4th, 2016
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) has revealed that it has developed its own digital currency nicknamed “MUFG coin” as part of its research into blockchain and distributed ledger technology. According to The Asahi Shimbun, the digital currency project seeks ...
Barcelona to Launch Local Digital Currency, Reports Claim
October 26th, 2015
Barcelona city council is reportedly working to launch its own digital currency in the next six months. According to reports from El Pais, one of Spain’s leading national newspapers, mayor Ada Colau’s government is hoping the digital currency will ...
Google and Samsung sign up for MasterCard express tokenisation programme
September 9th, 2015
Google and Samsung are among the first mobile wallet providers to join up to MasterCard‘s newly launched Digital Enablement Express programme, which aims to speed up the process of onboarding banks and rolling out tokenised payment services. Express allows ...
BitPay calls on industry to form ‘Bitcoin Association’
September 2nd, 2015
BitPay, the leading processor of Bitcoin payments, said it’s about time the biggest companies in the space began working together, and even suggested the formation of a “Bitcoin Association” to help promote the currency. Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer ...
Goldman Sachs Report Says Bitcoin Could Shape ‘Future of Finance’
March 12th, 2015
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are part of a technology “megatrend” that could change the fundamental mechanics of transactions, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs‘ equity research analysts. Bitcoin, along with improved payment security, ‘big data’ analytics and faster ...
2 Drug Chains Disable Apple Pay, as a Rival Makes Plans
October 27th, 2014
A consortium of merchants plans to introduce a payment system next year that will supplant the use of credit and debit cards. Apple Pay, the Silicon Valley giant’s highly anticipated mobile wallet, has been available for only one week ...
Gemalto will acquire SafeNet for $890 Million
August 8th, 2014
Gemalto, the Dutch digital security company announced that it has agreed to pay 890 million to acquire the data protection software provider, SafeNet. Gemalto’s security products are used for mobile wallets and online banking and in some national identity ...
CoinPip Supports Merchants Internationally
July 16th, 2014
Singapore-based bitcoin payment solution CoinPip Pte Ltd has been working tirelessly to make accepting digital currency even easier for its clients and for merchants in over 122 countries. Using CoinPip’s recently updated system, merchants can now instantly convert their ...
