Payment Week speaks with Julian Brook, Associate Director at SQS, about FIs, mobile apps, software control, and more.
In a bid to expand the feature set of Google’s Wallet offering, the company has released a physical debit card linked to its users’ Google Wallet accounts.
PayPal will be showing off its new mobile payment SDK to further extend its real-world reach through a partnership with cab hailing service Uber, allowing customers to pay fares via the online payments processor.
In a move that could either increase mobile payment adoption, or anger a whole lot of people, Barclays has enabled businesses and service providers to individually pay their customers through Barclay’s Pingit app.
Utilizing the iBeacon’s BLE technology, Apple stores will be able to track customers’ locations within their stores with extreme precision, displaying pricing, specs, and promotional information relevant to the items a customer is near.
Clip, a Square-like card processing offering from Mexico has gained $1.7 million in funding from Mexican VC firm, Alta Ventures. According to TechCrunch, the total funding comes from a convertible note with Alta Ventures, along with backing from a previous investor.
According to Market Reports China, the third-party payment market is on the rise. Transaction volume in 2012 was measured at CNY 12.9 trillion, or $2.12 trillion. This was an increase of 54.2% compared to 2011.
Rummaging through your wallet or purse to find the right credit card might be a thing in the past with the digital card called Coin. Coin is the perfect blend of traditional mag strip and mobile wallets - which may be the answer to the troubles of emerging payment adaption in the US.
Isis, the mobile wallet initiative that has the backing of AT&T; Mobility, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless, released today on the Google Play store. To use Isis, you need to be a subscriber to one of these three carriers, download the Isis app on an NFC enabled phone, and also install a SIM card with a secure element (some carriers make you pay for the SIM).
By February 1st, customers of the payment processor and dongle purveyor, Square, will find a shakeup in their payment plan offerings.