Banks are beginning to realize that mobile payments are better not left to tech giants. Banks can be intermediated and loose the one-on-one brand connection with the consumer. But how can banks win the mobile payments game? Well, the partnership between Chase and MCX gives us a few good lessons. At first you wouldn’t think…
Depending on which survey you read, anywhere from 28% to 48% of iPhone 6 users have already tried Apple Pay, and half of those who haven’t intend to do so in the next 90 days. These astoundingly high numbers will impact the payments industry just as iTunes impacted the music business, and players who adapt…
We may love the Hollywood movies about amazing bank or jewelry heists, armored car robberies, art scams, and the like, but smart criminals figured out long ago that a good financial data breach is a much more lucrative form of criminal activity. And it comes with the added benefit of much lower risk of arrest…
From an interview published on Mobile Payments Today Last May, Russia-based Sberbank became one of the first major financial institutions to announce a commercial mobile wallet rollout that integrated Host Card Emulation to bypass the secure element in a smartphone to make NFC mobile payments. Sequent Software Inc., a U.S.-based firm that specializes in providing a mobile wallet platform-as-a-service,…
I recently came across an article on Retail Touchpoints called “Reinventing The Retail App For In-Store Success“. In it Artisan CEO Bob Moul explains why retailers nowadays care so much about native mobile app strategy for in-store experience and how it is essential to maximizing ROI. According to a Google research, some 84% of shoppers use their smart…
Apple Pay is here and banks can finally enable NFC mobile payments for their iPhone carrying customers. However, the Apple smart phone user base, while considerable, is only part of the entire customer base of banks and merchants. How can banks serve their entire customer base, especially their Android-based customers? And this is not a…
With the introduction earlier this year of Host Card Emulation (HCE) and last month’s reveal of the iPhone 6, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is making a strong move to fulfill its promise to be the dominant “physical world” payments technology. The reinvigoration of interest in NFC is raising the stakes for enabling technologies that…
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