Friday, May 4, 2018

Google Alert - "Near Field Communications"

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"Near Field Communications"
As-it-happens update May 5, 2018
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The Global Near Field Communications Market report provides a comprehensive scenario of the present and future market processes, development methodologies and growth opportunities. Starting a discussion on the present-day state of the market, the report additionally dismembers the market ...
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Google Alert - "Near Field Communications"

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"Near Field Communications"
As-it-happens update May 4, 2018
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Both Alipay and WeChat Pay have popularised paying for purchases made at the point of sale by tapping, swiping or checking in with a smartphone, using the near-field communications feature built in the handset or the machine-readable optical label known as QR code. Mobile payments in China are ...
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Google Alert - "Mobile Payment"

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"Mobile Payment"
Daily update May 4, 2018
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IT IS A measure of how fast and unpredictably technology and finance have developed that the two most influential new payment systems of the 21st century so far both came about more or less by accident. M-PESA, Kenya's mobile-payment system, evolved out of a pilot scheme in 2005 by Safaricom, ...
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French payments provider Ingenico Group has partnered with UK-based Paymentsense to roll out a new mobile payment solution for merchants in the UK. The alliance will enable UK merchants to offer the point of sale directly to their customers with a new payment device. Under the partnership ...
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But the biggest rival is a domestic online retailer and mobile-payment firm, Paytm (for "pay through mobile"), which in February handled 40% of India's UPI payments. Claiming over 300m accounts, it provides the country's most popular mobile wallet. Alibaba and Ant Financial are minority shareholders.
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Meanwhile, Samsung Pay is revising the rewards program for the mobile payment service. Samsung Rewards launched earlier in April, and on May 23, Samsung Pay users will be able to start purchasing rewards points, "similar to the way airline consumers can purchase extra miles in order to build up ...
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The mobile payment transaction service is an integrated system linked by various components of the value chain which typically includes the merchant, the consumer, the financial institution involved and not to forget the payment gateway and the telecom network. The global Mobile Payment Transaction ...
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"Mobile has certainly changed the game for vended laundry," says Paresh Patel, Ph.D., founder and CEO of PayRange, an in-app mobile payment service for automated retail. "While card systems for laundry have been around for a couple decades, they have not gained as much adoption in part due to ...
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Our readers love to read about studies, particularly those about mobile payments (duh), but also mobile banking. So, it is no surprise that an article about Citi's latest mobile banking study surged to the top five in April despite appearing on the site late in the month. Citi's study has some juicy tidbits for ...
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Zion Market Research has recently added the latest report, titled "Mobile Payment Technology Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016–2024", which examines the overview of the various factors enabling growth and trends in the market. The report gives a ...
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Together the companies will deploy mobile payment applications, as well as explore the use of existing P97 functionality such as the authorization of in-store purchases and delivery of personalized offers directly to drivers through an app. "We believe this investment and strategic partnership is an ...
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Using Ingenico's Link/2500 mobile payment device, connected via Paymentsense's Connect software, retailers can quickly implement a fully mobile checkout experience without complex integration or major system changes. Consumers can pay with contactless, Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as ...
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Nevertheless, there are signs that mobile payment is growing steadily,[2] particularly in the retail and services sector. Smartphone apps like Snapscan are also starting to challenge cash's domination of smaller transactions. On the consumer front, almost half (45%) of consumers globally expect to be ...
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China's mobile payment apps are expanding their reach in the global market as Internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent seek to promote their e-payment tools overseas, Xinhua reported in March. Tencent's Wechat Pay has been used in 20 countries and regions including Japan and the Republic of ...
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According to the company's website, "Glance Pay Mobile Payment App boasts state of the art capabilities and has been engineered with security and ease of usage in mind. Its accounting features are designed for easy record keeping for both restaurants and users." It looks like Glance will be applying ...
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In the quarter, revenue was up 24% to $3.7 billion. 2.2 billion payment transactions went through PayPal platforms. $132 billion total payment volume. 237 million active accounts. They processed $49 billion in mobile payment volume in the quarter. That was up 52% year over year. Mobile payments now ...
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Financial institutions that built their own wallets and mobile payment capabilities were challenged in providing a full experience on both Apple and Android devices. Android's use of Host Card Emulation (HCE) is accessible by other apps, whereas Apple's use of the physical secure element is locked ...
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Leading-edge QR code payment solutions that are popular in China now enter Southeast Asia. SINGAPORE, May 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 4, 2018, Beijing Inspiry Technology Co., Ltd., one of China's leading mobile payment solution providers, displayed its mobile payment solutions at the ...
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The news was not well received by mobile payment companies, and this reflected in their stock prices. While PayPal dropped 4.1% after the news broke on May 2, Visa fell 0.9%. Square stock closed just 0.95% higher after gaining ~3.7% earlier in the day, but then fell ~7% in after-hours trading on ...
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The report also showed that mobile payment is now the preferred payment option for 35% of shoppers. Despite the adoption of mobile payment, 58% of respondents said they are worried about mobile payment security - an issue that retailers must address if they want to succeed in the Canadian retail ...
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Bank of America in March began deploying Erica, a virtual financial assistant on its app that lets customers check their balance and send money through Zelle, the mobile payment app. But AI's impact in financial services is expected to go beyond the realm of Siri for checking accounts. Investment ...
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Wearables also describes watches for certain outdoor recreation activities such as jogging. In the outdoor market, the launch of the Descent watch for divers has been well-received. In the fitness market, the Forerunner 645M is the company's first GPS running watch and includes mobile payment and ...
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The world and Olympic 1500m champion has issued a detailed statement to Kenyan journalist Saddique Shaban that doubles down on Kiprop's claim yesterday that he is a clean athlete and adds explosive allegations of irregularities in the testing process, a cash payment to one of the doping officers, ...
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The survey found that just 24% of respondents have seen even a slight increase in the usage of mobile payments over the past two years, as opposed to 68% who feel that mobile payment volume has remained more or less the same. For comparison, when ShopKeep asked small business owners ...
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"Mastercard has multiple growth avenues, including international expansion, market share gain potential, mobile payment development and prepaid," he said. "That said, we see rebates and incentives remaining high in the near term as merchants push for lower fees and competition grows from ...
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The Alibaba partnership helped Paytm become the third-largest global mobile payment platform in less than two years. By partnering with companies in other markets, Chinese giants could help balance the global competitive environment now largely under the sway of U.S. giants. This type of alliance ...
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The New York-based company said the People's Bank of China was formally accepting its application, which is for a joint venture with Chinese mobile payment provider Lianlian Group, to clear and settle bank transactions. The credit card market in China is largely dominated by a state-owned entity, ...
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That deal ended in February when Alibaba took a 33% equity stake in Ant, which runs mobile-payment network Alipay and provides other financial services. For the quarter, Alibaba is expected to report adjusted EPS of $0.88 on revenue of $9.17 billion according to third-party consensus estimates.
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... how mainland Chinese tourists have helped drive the expansion of the country's ubiquitous mobile payment services to the countries they visit.
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... many of which have had to acknowledge the widespread use of mobile payment and mobile messaging through platforms such as Tencent, Baidu, ...
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More and more Canadians are doing most of their spending by tapping with plastic or some kind of mobile payment system, like PayPal or Apple Pay.
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One of the longest-running retail problems involves loyalty points and gift cards and the fact that shoppers tend to either forget about them or find them ...
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Last week a mobile payment processor Square (NYSE: SQ) announced it would acquire Weebly, a technology company that helps customers build websites and online stores, for approximately $365 million in cash and stock. Together the companies will provide businesses and entrepreneurs with a full ...
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Luna Boutique uses technology to build connections with customers from the U.S. and Australia to Thailand and the United Kingdom, including personal shopping through Instagram messaging and mobile payment apps. The boutique features women's clothing, lingerie, footwear and accessories at her ...
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A number of companies interested in buying the payments unit have been mentioned in the media: France's Ingenico, a mobile payment services provider; First Data as well as private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Hellman & Friedman from the U.S.; Switzerland's «Handelszeitung» recently said that ...
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona held in February, Rambus demonstrated its CryptoManager IoT security service, mobile payment and ...
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The search engine giant's payment platform could also pose a challenge for Apple Pay which works on both desktop and mobile devices and other mobile payment services. Google added Android Pay and Google Wallet together into one unified service called Google Pay in February. However, it was ...
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A recent whitepaper from data research firm Nielsen and Alipay revealed that more than 90 percent of Chinese tourists sampled in their study said they would use mobile payment methods overseas if given the opportunity. And as such, many businesses across the globe have adapted to this payment ...
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The Mobile Payment Technologies Market report is made up of an in depth analysis of current state of the global market and the factors that will be responsible for the progression in the future, The report is to define important Portion and competitors of the market with respect to production, Consumption, ...
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... domestic payment institutions have processed 169 trillion yuan ($26.6 trillion), up from 18 trillion yuan five years earlier, with an annual growth rate of 75 percent. About 105.1 trillion yuan was transferred through the mobile payment service of third-party payment companies last year, a year-on-year ...
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This is one reason why the Primer Group immediately signed up to be a partner of Globe Fintech Innovations Inc. (Mynt)—a partnership between Globe Telecom, Ayala Corp. and Ant Financial—and roll out the GCash QR-based mobile payment technology across its over 400 stores. With the partnership ...
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Alipay, the world's largest online, mobile payment and lifestyle platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, today announced the addition of two new money market funds to Yu'e Bao, the spare cash management platform within the Alipay app. The new funds, managed by Bosera Asset ...
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Malaysia Mobile Wallet and Payment Market Opportunities Databook
Market Data and Insights: It details market opportunities across 30 market segments in mobile payment industry for the period 2016-2025 and identifies potential opportunities and risks. It also covers market size and forecast on mobile payment user base and other drivers. Market estimates and forecasts ...
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Millennial Mobile Payment Users.indd
The financial technology (fintech) sector is revolutionizing traditional financial practices, yet little information exists on users of these services. In this study, we examine untapped information from the 2015 National Financial Capability Study and the 2016 GFLEC Mobile Payment Survey to provide ...
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Be prepared for Google search changes
Australian businesses need to be prepared for a big change in the Google search landscape. Google has been working on a new "mobile-first "search regime which will reward websites which perform better on mobile phones – and this change may roll out later this year. While Google has been working ...
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Mobile Payment Technologies Market by Technology, Application & Geography
COM, May 04, 2018 ) Global Mobile Payment Technologies Market Report 2017 Mobile payment is an innovation which enables buyers to make quick payments for items and administrations by utilizing a versatile electronic gadget, for example, tablets, smartphones, and cell phones which are...
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