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In the search for new profitable businesses, mobile operators are entering the payment market. New offerings are presented as all participants try to capture what looks like the 'next big thing' in mobile communications:...

Over the last decade, payment acquirers have made leaps and bounds in FinTech innovation — for instance, major players like PayPal, Intuit, Stripe, and Square have completely reinvented the acceptance process. Meanwhile, payment issuers and...

Sometimes it is difficult enough for the mobile payments industry to keep up with new technology threats and opportunities domestically, let alone regionally or internationally. Given the frenetic pace with which new technology is hitting the...

Several companies have made predictions about what will happen in the payments industry in 2012. For example, Visa Europe predicts that this will be the year when the adoption of contactless payment technologies will become...

The overall idea behind PSD2 open banking is not new, Yodlee and others have for a while aggregate accounts, and they have done this through a process known as screen scraping. Now though the...

By Jay Thomas VP, product marketing, Narus While m-payments are on the road map for most operators, there are obstacles to be overcome before lucrative data and commerce channels can be fully realised. Jay Thomas...

With the announcement that MPSA (Mobile Payment Service Association) has re-branded to 'Simpay,' MPW interviewed chief marketing officer Jim Wadsworth to get his take on the current outlook. Simpay's commercial launch will be in...

The world seems to have got itself into a great big, tearing hurry. Consumers can send and receive e-mail across the globe in near-real-time. They can download a movie to watch immediately, or buy...

I have come across a number of articles that describe a nagging problem with mobile wallets - that cash is still King and so wallets just seem to be conduit pipes, not really holders...

With many high profile trials of NFC-enabled mobile phones on the back of the rapidly accelerating roll-out of contactless cards, Hugh Roberts, senior strategist at Logan Orviss International, offered MPW his insights on the...