Mobile Payments

The time is right for service providers to provide m-payment services in Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India and China (M-BRIC), according to a study by Arthur D. Little. While only 32 million people in M-BRIC...

As more consumers and employees use their smartphones and tablets, the risk of payment fraud stemming from those devices increase for small- and medium-sized businesses, warns a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research. The...

Starbucks has launched its 'Starbucks Card Mobile App' on the Apple App Store. Customers who download the App can view their card balance and reload their card directly from an iPhone or iPod touch with...

Visa Inc. has acquired Fundamo, a leading platform provider of mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies. It also announced a new, long-term commercial agreement with Monitise for...

Pinterest teamed with Stripe to allow consumers to buy the products that they see. The company says that it will offer the ability to buy products from inside of pinned items, in what is its first foray into...

PayPal shares are up 5% in its first day as a separate and publicly traded company. The payments system company officially split with eBay on Friday, 10 months after they announced that they were going their...

The report, Pay Your Way 2025: Future Payments, looks beyond the probable to take a broader look at what could become available in 2025 for the most enthusiastic consumers of technological advances. The Payments Council...

Just days after FirstBank, a US regional bank from Boulder openly mocked Google Glass in a new video ad for its own mobile banking app, Google is working on a feature that would add...

Mobile financial services company Bling Nation has unveiled plans to enable customers to pay for their physical goods via a PayPal account, technology blog techcrunch.com reports. According to the same source, users will gain the...

Mobile network operator O2 is to cease operating its O2 mobile wallet service in the UK on 31 March. Launched in April 2012, the service included a range of money transfer, mobile shopping and offers services plus transaction...