Mobile Payments

Ant Group’s $34 billion IPO

Ant Group’s record $34 billion IPO will be world’s largest [Update: suspended by regulators]

By Jeff Domansky, October 27, 2020 Editor’s update: CNBC reported today (Nov 3) that “Ant Group’s controller Jack Ma, executive chairman Eric Jing and CEO Simon Hu were ...
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Visa Tap to Phone

Visa launches Tap to Phone mobile payments in 15 markets

After a year of development and testing, Visa rolled out its new Tap to Pay mobile payment app that will let micro-merchants and sellers worldwide quickly and securely ...
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One digital bank launches

New banking app hopes to be the One for middle-class Americans

Another new digital bank launched in the US and it’s aiming to provide innovative features for what it says is the underserved middle-class in America. Former Capital One ...
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Tappit powers Jacksonville Jaguars contactless payments

NFL Jaguars kick off season with Tappit contactless payments

It’s been a season of uncertainty for US hockey, basketball, baseball, and now for NFL football fans. With NHL hockey playoffs well underway without fans in arenas, the ...
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contactless payments by Fattmerchant

Fattmerchant launches new contactless payments solution for merchants

With new research showing a shift by consumers to contactless payments, technology provider Fattmerchant introduced a new suite of contactless payment tools for small business owners A recent ...
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global mobile payments

COVID-19 crisis creates contactless payments growth

As business and consumers start to raise their heads from months of prolonged lockdowns due to the coronavirus crisis, the US payments industry is finally seeing growth in ...
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local payment preferences critical

What’s the post-pandemic payments world look like?

As consumer buying behaviors change quickly during and post-pandemic, the payments world is also going through significant changes. While contactless payments were very slowly gaining traction, particularly in ...
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future of payments is changing fast

Future of Money Study sees new payments methods ahead

Money matters to consumers and the new Future of Money market research by Logica shows changes ahead in how we pay for things in the future. And those ...
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Visa's Tap to Pay turns Samsung smartphone into POS device

Visa, Samsung collaborate on payments and smartphone POS solution

A new collaboration between Visa and smartphone maker Samsung electronics brings simple mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment capability to millions of businesses without the need for expensive hardware, maintenance, ...
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Lamborghini Huracan EVO voice services

Hey Alexa, fill up my gas tank

It’s getting to the point where voice skills like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can do just about everything except give the kids a bath. The timing of ...
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