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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Mobile Wallets Get Their Moment. Supplying a much-needed conduit and line of communication with the unbanked and underbanked is the ubiquitous smartphone. Mobile payments capabilities are a prime avenue for this population and others to access hot banking tech, or to just get paid faster. “It

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

The company focuses on mobile payments and wearables, and has operations that span 25 countries and nearly two dozen currencies. Separately, Ireland-based FinTech Prepaid Financial Services has been granted an eMoney license by the Central Bank of Ireland.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Financial Innovation Now (FIN) submitted a public letter in December, contending that the Fed was best-positioned to operate a ubiquitous, interoperable real-time payments network. Mobile is expected to comprise more than half of eCommerce in the coming years.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Helena Mao , vice president of global product strategy for payments at Blackhawk , spoke to PYMNTS, explaining why many consumers were slower to adopt the rollout of mobile wallets and payment methods in places like the United States — and why those feelings may be shifting. By contrast, U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

“At Wells Fargo, our goal is to make the payments experience as seamless as possible for our customers, which is why we are so pleased to launch contactless credit cards for simple tap-to-pay checkouts,” said Beverly Anderson, head of Wells Fargo cards and retail services, in the press release.

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JULY 1, 2019

One of the biggest opportunities is in fleet payments, where cash and checks remain prevalent (particularly in the U.S.), but where innovations in mobile payments, the Internet of Things (IoT) and autonomous vehicle technology have opened doors for FinTech firms to tackle some of the biggest challenges from new angles.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

There was a time when it seemed that ubiquity would become the focal point of full-service and mobile payments systems. Experts believed that universally accepted mobile wallets from trusted companies like Apple or Samsung would dominate the new wave of payments. “That’s clearly not true.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

They were regarded as the pinnacle of mobile payments and mobile phones. If one jumps in the wayback machine and parks it at the turn of the millennium, the gears were already turning in innovators’ heads about making mobile about more than a device that could make phone calls and send SMS messages.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A good forecast is a notoriously difficult thing to write – particularly if one is trying to write it about the payments and commerce ecosystem. And that customer, according to the experts, is increasingly becoming every customer – because the advances are just that ubiquitous at this point. The winners in 2018?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

A number of Chinese financial firms are branching out to embrace mobile payments, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Jan. trillion market as measured by transactions seen in the latest fiscal year, which ended in September, and is marked by a shift by consumers using their phones to make mobile payments ubiquitous.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

Apple Pay is one of the most ubiquitous forms of payments, and provides users with an easy, fast and secure way to pay,” eBay’s EVP of Payments Steve Fisher said at the time. Last July, Apple Pay went online with eBay, though it is somewhat more limited than Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In a January 2020 column, with a nod toward the connected home, Karen Webster noted in this space that “in many ways, voice is the great payments and financial services equalizer — the most ubiquitous and natural of all ways to communicate and trigger a transaction.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But the landscape is changing, where physical payments are not the way it is done alone. Enter the mobile payments push, where buying is a 24/7/365 proposition. The coffee giant has seen 25 percent of its volume accrue over the past five years, with a nod to loyalty and apps being ubiquitous to all who want to use them.

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Fintech News

APRIL 16, 2024

With cashless payment becoming ubiquitous, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) is now paving the way for open finance, aiming to enhance consumer access to financial services. Additionally, a new strategy announced by the National Innovation Agency (NIA) will be supporting local innovative startups, and help businesses integrate digital tools.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Some of the technologies include retinal scanning and selfie payment systems. By using retinal scanning, for example, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users are now able to make mobile payments. News highlights from the IoT world. While the capability is available in the 2.3

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

The bank announced the launch of its Wells Fargo Wallet on Tuesday (May 24), noting that the new function will be incorporated directly within its existing mobile app for Android. With mobile ubiquitous in today’s world, innovation around mobile will continue to be a key area of focus.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

But there is often one major drawback: Actually using the virtual card in a remote setting can be a challenge, as support for virtual cards to be loaded onto a mobile wallet is not ubiquitous. Consumers have come to accept and expect enhanced payment experiences through digital innovation – and now business card users can too.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The companies noted that by issuing Mastercard prepaid cards, Grab’s mobile payments platform, GrabPay , will become the first eWallet from Southeast Asia that is accepted around the world. Customers can add cash to the card to spend at any merchant, online and offline, where Mastercard is accepted around the world.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We are also seeing that certainly RTP is playing a bigger role, though clearly that’s not a ubiquitous option at this point for small businesses unless they have relationships with larger financial institutions,” McFarland said.

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JULY 4, 2019

In turn, restaurants are fast embracing mobile payments as they look to deliver on the speed and convenience their customers have come to expect. These apps, as well as more ubiquitous services like Venmo , are aiming to change how consumers approach paying and tipping.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

But mobile and other connected devices, the cloud, software platforms, new technologies, data, near-ubiquitous wireless internet and the imaginations of innovators have changed all of that. Digital payments and connected devices are beginning to turn the notion of acceptance and ubiquity on its head.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

QR code-enabled contactless payments are nearly ubiquitous overseas, but they are still the exception rather than the norm in the U.S. The key to gaining customer trust came down to simplicity and security, according to Leon. Challenges In Deploying QR Codes. despite the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

Easy, Safe and Ubiquitous. The pilots are seeing what we can do to check off easy, safe and then we get into can it be ubiquitous. “What every small business we talk to says is their biggest concerns are cost and complexity,” he said, regardless of whether they operate in developed or developing markets, he added.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

Mobile wallet platforms have yet to catch on with U.S. The technology is especially popular with Chinese consumers, and mobile payment provider Alipay is looking to give Chinese citizens more ways to use the payment type at home and abroad. Evolving Mobile Platforms, with Retail in Mind.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

“We’re on a mission to replace cash and checks with a faster, safer, and easier way to pay,” said Lou Anne Alexander, group president, payments, Early Warning Services, in the press release. Zelle enables payments to be sent, received and split using a registered mobile phone number or email address.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Chudnovsky said that mobile payments will ride the existing debit rails between banks — again leveraging ubiquitous infrastructure to offer the service as widely as possible. Payments never sit in a wallet of any kind, Chudnovsky said; Messenger doesn’t hold money at any point. users have.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Retailers must do more than add installments and flexible payment options to their sites to win younger consumers’ loyalties, however. This flexibility must be ubiquitous across all channels on which their customers shop and interact, which increasingly means supporting such payments on mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2018

Mobile by nature, business travel has emerged as a leader in commercial payments digitization as companies explore ways to make it easier for employees to spend while on a trip — yet ensure the data from that spend is captured, reconciled and analyzed. use a central travel account (CTA). Challenges To Adoption.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2016

We posed the same question to each executive: If you had to answer the question, Payments was the year of …, how would you answer, and how does your answer change your world — and the world of payments, more broadly? Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

A perfect example of that in the payments space is the slow consumer adoption of Apple Pay, Google Wallet and many other mobile payment technologies. Moreover, smartphone usage is nearly ubiquitous among younger adults, with 92 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds owning one.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Could those numbers have been different if more innovators had more access to Apple’s NFC chip and used Apple Pay’s contactless infrastructure to create a flywheel for contactless mobile payments in-store? And contactless payments is where Apple CEO Tim Cook says he sees tremendous potential. And therein lies the rub.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The continued adaptation of mobile payments combined with the flexibility [of] buy now, pay later -like offerings have really gained massive traction online in recent years,” Lisiewski said. “I It’s not that consumers will never return to stores; the panel unanimously agreed physical commerce will always have patrons.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Payments can be made through credit cards, as well as services like WeChat Pay and Alipay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

For mobile banking to become ubiquitous, the development of 5G technology is paramount,” reads one recent analysis of the biggest FinTech and banking trends for 2019. “5G 5G tech reduces latency and transaction times, which is key to ensuring the network can handle the amount of transactions at scale.

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Stax

JULY 11, 2024

Ensure you have the right NFC-enabled POS equipment, and configure your payment terminals to start accepting Apple Pay. Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that allows people to make payments using their Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and Macs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Earthbound versions of actual devices were ubiquitous within 30 short years of their Syfy debut. Our first glimpse of the not-so-distant future of handheld tech was ‘the communicator’ on TV’s "Star Trek" in the late 1960s, providing science fiction’s vision of the smartphone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

This category essentially invented a “mobile” food concept before drive-thrus (never mind smartphones) were ubiquitous. The digitization of convenience stores actually began years ago. Convenience stores also helped pioneer faster POS terminals, among other retail innovations.

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