Mobile Payments

MasterCard Mobile, based on Cellum’s technology, has reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads in May. The service was launched in 2011, making payments via mobile available at nearly 200 merchants as of now. Cellum has...

The GSMA announced the launch of the Mobile Money Exchange initiative at the Annual Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona. Visa and Globe Telecom are the first two founding partners of the Mobile Money Exchange,...

Bank customers will soon be able to pay old-fashioned paper bills the modern way by simply snapping pictures of the bills with their smartphones, Mitek Systems has announced. With its new Mobile Photo Bill Pay...

Western Union has launched its Digital Vendor Program intended to extend the reach and accessibility of its money transfer services to mobile finance initiatives in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. 'Establishing a...

Now several companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, are trying to bridge the gap between mobile browsing and desktop purchasing with a simple “buy” button. Buy buttons have been around since the early days...

PointsPay, a 'global mobile wallet and mobile payment solution', successfully launched in October together with launch program partner Etihad Airways converts virtual currency, such as miles and points, into over 150 global currencies for...

Non-bank competition in the payments market is set to hot up as Google launches its own credit card and PayPal expands on its bricks-and-mortar strategy. Google is preparing beta tests of a commercial credit card...

More than half of UK consumers (54%) now say they often or always use digital wallets to pay for goods online. This is according to a survey of 2,000 UK adults commissioned by digital...

Although mobile wallets are a relatively new form of payment, nearly 3 in 10 consumers (29%) expressed a willingness to adopt this emerging payments alternative in the next six months, according to recently released...

Masabi has successfully collaborated with mobile payments provider, Mi-Pay, to develop Street Vendor; a mobile transaction system that allows mobile operators, banks and other retailers providers to offer their services in remote regions without...