The launch of Apple Pay in 2014 – later followed by Samsung Pay and Android Pay (now Google Pay) – was supposed to cement NFC as the go-forward technology for mobile wallets. This would happen as most merchants would enable NFC and customers would...

The lesson is a story about Ant’s Yu’e Bao. According to the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal it means “Leftover Treasure.” Four years ago, Ant Financial, the payments unit of the Alibaba, launched Yu’e Bao to scoop up the leftover...

It seems that with every day that passes we hear about a new authentication approach or threat. All this noise makes it easy to understand how we may end up glossing over really important, seemingly obvious factors that affect the authentication of...

Goodbye Beta, Hello World! Venmo ends its pilot trial for in-app payments and now makes the capability available to all Venmo users on multiple e-commerce merchant apps.

Now that the largest banks in the land have come together to make settlement speed a competitive advantage in the P2P space, they still must address the complex customer experience and lack of mobile support that continues to drive customers in...

Mastercard relaunches its Masterpass service to enable issuers to deliver new bank branded payment apps

By moving loyalty cards out of your wallet or off of your key ring, Samsung Pay shows consumers how mobile wallet storage of these credentials can be every bit as convenient as the plastic card.

In 2015, approximately 112,000 consumers reported being victims of mobile wallet-related account takeover and this is likely to get worse before it gets better, largely due to three major factors: EMV, the growing adoption of mobile wallets, and the...

Green Dot CEO struggles with board battle to retain position, company loses focus on product innovation and is missing out on the e-commerce bonanza

The transition from standalone mobile wallets to mobile banking-integrated payments will not be quick or without hiccups.