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APRIL 9, 2020

Though they’ve overcome serious technical hurdles, work well, and are now in the hands of billions of smartphone-owning consumers, mobile wallets including those from Big Tech players Apple and Google are starving for share as Q1 2020 usage slipped below an unimpressive 2019. Apple Pay, Walmart Pay Go Unused Amid COVID-19 Frenzy.

Mobile 140

Mobile Apple Cards Millennials 140

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. consumers showed that of the 7.75

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Dutch antitrust regulators have launched an investigation into freedom of choice regarding payment apps and is eyeing Apple Pay’s limitations, Bloomberg reported. Although the antitrust regulator didn’t mention Apple by name, it said in a press release on Friday (Dec. Apple has denied any outside access to the chip.

Apple 159

Apple Payments Software Regulation 159

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MAY 21, 2019

Banking service Monese now offers Apple Pay through 13 countries in Europe , as the digital payment service has also arrived at National Australia Bank (NAB). retailer Iceland has seen encouraging results from a mobile wallet technology pilot during a marketing campaign. Users who reside in Belgium, the U.K., And in the U.K.,

Apple 108

Apple Retail Mobile National 108

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APRIL 6, 2020

One might expect that in these circumstances, consumers would be even more inclined to take advantage of the contactless payment capabilities of mobile wallets, to avoid swiping their cards at point-of-sale (POS) terminals and pressing keypads touched by many other shoppers. percent reported Walmart Pay usage. percent to 3.3

Mobile 234

Mobile Apple Data United States 234

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MARCH 18, 2020

percent, of consumers reported they would be highly likely to seek banking services with Amazon , Apple or Google — while another 23.5 The good news, particularly for smaller FIs, is their ability to be nimbler, build more partnerships and roll out to market with advance capability more quickly. Meanwhile, 28.5

Cards 217

Cards Tools Mobile Google 217

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent to market, a host of “. In the pre-pandemic world, mobile wallets struggled to get all the way up to a 1 percent penetration rate among consumers.

Mobile 289

Mobile Retail Apple Payments 289

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JUNE 16, 2020

The Minneapolis-based company has partnered with Mastercard to offer consumers access to their funds through their Branch Mastercard debit cards by adding it to mobile wallets, including Apple Pay, from the Branch mobile app. .

Digital Banking 199

Digital Banking Mobile Los Angeles San Francisco 199

PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Card processor TSYS is looking to heighten the security of mobile corporate payments. The company announced Tuesday (May 30) that it is enabling tokenization across its North American commercial card program, allowing businesses to let their own cardholders pay with a mobile device. To do this across all of our U.S.

Mobile 113

Mobile Cards Payments Samsung 113

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

20th) is Apple Pay ’s sixth birthday – a day that finds the digital payment method carrying a bit of the same air of great expectations that came with its launch in 2014. But, as it turned out, even Apple didn’t have the power to change people’s payments preferences. The use of mobile wallets has remained flat, with only 5.9

Apple 133

Apple Payments Study Mobile 133

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

The EU is looking even further into possible antitrust violations regarding Apple , with regulators trying to find out if online sales companies were ordered to use the tech giant’s mobile payment service instead of rival services.

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Apple Regulation Mobile Online 100

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JUNE 2, 2016

There’s one particular country that’s been creating a lot of attention in the mobile payments ecosystem in the past week. While those facts may seem a bit random for this edition of the mobile payments tracker, they do, in fact, matter. It’s a country with an estimated population of just 5.47 square miles.

Mobile 100

Mobile Marketing Samsung Payments 100

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Apple is hoping its new 5G iPhones will help it bridge a gap in sales in China, where it has been beaten out by rivals like Huawei, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. But in China, the phone wasn't seen on display at an Apple store in Shanghai. On Tuesday (Oct. in recent years.

Apple 160

Apple Samsung Analytics Report 160

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Smaller companies were the focus of innovation in the commercial card space this week thanks to new cards designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs. American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs.

Cards 248

Cards Innovation United States Branding 248

Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

Apple’s mobile payment service Apple Pay helped the company’s services business revenue grow 19% year-over-year to reach an all-time high of $10.9 Apple Pay processed over 1.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

Apple 170

Apple Mobile Payments Operations 170

Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

Samsung 186

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For businesses, the world market was thrown into volatility, yet soon, new opportunities emerged. For the corporate card, 2020 has been a season for dramatic shifts in how the payment tool is used and the value it adds to the enterprise. The year 2020 began inconspicuously — but in a few short weeks, everything changed. Winter Blues.

Cards 246

Cards Tools Capital Payments 246

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JANUARY 31, 2021

City National Bank has enlisted New York City FinTech Extend to enable the bank’s clients to offer virtual corporate cards to employees, vendors and other business partners, the companies announced in a press release. Replacing them is much easier than replacing plastic cards. With Extend, City National is the first issuer in the U.S.

National 172

National Cards New York City New York 172

Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

Cards 150

Cards Analysis Retail Apple 150

Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Yesterday Apple announced entering the payments space with Apple Pay, a new way to pay in physical stores and mobile apps. At Celent we also published a report in March this year called Apple in Payments: What to Expect? The first three are indeed at the heart of Apple Pay’s proposition.

Apple 180

Apple Payments Mobile Cards 180

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Apple is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia, choosing Thailand as the home for its second Apple Store in Southeast Asia. A tech media outlet , citing comments Apple made on its local Thailand website, reported that the store will be part of the upcoming Iconsiam mall, which will be the largest in Bangkok.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The collaboration will allow eftpos to support Apple Pay through its issued debit cards. Rambus, which launched a comprehensive mobile payments platform earlier this year, is helping eftpos bring tokenization to Australian cardholders. On Tuesday (Oct. 17), Rambus, Inc.

Apple 116

Apple Cards Security Mobile 116

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Apple payment platform, Apple Pay, is again being investigated by the European Commission again, MLex reported on Wednesday (Oct. A report says that European Union antitrust regulators are gathering information from other payments companies about Apple’s marketplace decorum. among retailers and transit systems.

Apple 116

Apple Regulation Mobile Payments 116

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Alphabet , the parent of Google, is getting into the digital payments market in Japan, inking a deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for its Android Pay platform. According to a report , which cited a person with knowledge of the matter, the move is designed to get into Japan’s fast-growing digital payments market.

Google 102

Google Apple Marketing Payments 102

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MARCH 17, 2020

Android users can bring the Coinbase Card directly to their Google Pay wallets, the company said in a post. The Coinbase Card is a debit card funded by digital currency. And, after customers request a Coinbase Card, they can add their cards to Google Pay and begin to use their crypto prior to the arrival of their tangible cards.

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Bitcoin Apple Google blockchain 152

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Facebook is gearing up to shut down a market research program that relied on an iOS app and reportedly violated the developer guidelines at Apple. The Verge , citing Facebook, reported the market research app would harvest the data of users’ phones with their consent.

Marketing 115

Marketing Guidelines Apple Policies 115

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AUGUST 1, 2018

As comes standard in many Apple quarterly earnings report, there was plenty of buzz to go around. The Apple Watch is the most beloved wearable in human history, the iPhone X is the best-selling iPhone on the market and Apple products, broadly, are bringing all of mankind together in love and harmony.

Apple 100

Apple Comparison Mobile Retail 100

Bank Innovation

AUGUST 21, 2017

The neobank has been busy in those five months, reporting growth in card transaction volume as well as in customers; the bank has now processed €5 billion in transactions, according […].

Apple 207

Apple Marketing Cards Report 207

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Coverage includes France’s Natixis Payments bringing Apple Pay to users of Apetiz at restaurants and retailers. France’s Natixis Payments is bringing Apple Pay to users of Apetiz for payments at affiliated restaurants and retailers, Natixis said in an announcement.

Google 148

Google Apple Payments Samsung 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. The most-used mobile wallet in the U.S. Mobile adoption in the U.S. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. It hasn’t been easy.

Mobile 109

Mobile Apple Samsung Cards 109

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Monese added support for Apple Pay for personal cards in the U.K. as well as France, Wirecard joined forces with Cimple Marketing for an Alipay implementation at Stockmann -operated department stores in The Baltics as well as Finland and Upco International Inc. Monese added support for Apple Pay for personal cards in the U.K.

Apple 129

Apple cryptocurrency Mobile Payments 129

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JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. At launch, the service was positioned as an innovative replacement for a well-entrenched standard considered not well-suited for a mobile and digital world.

Apple 165

Apple Mobile Cards Payments 165

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Keepsake is one company that enables consumers to upload their photos through a mobile app to be printed, framed and delivered. Keepsake accepts major credit cards or Apple Pay for payment and uses Stripe on the backend. Like many companies, Keepsake reaches its market through social media. Gift Cards.

Mobile 141

Mobile social media United States Cards 141

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JANUARY 5, 2017

USA Technologies wants to make it easier — and more rewarding — to snag a Snickers at a vending machine using Apple Pay. The self-serve technology firm has announced that it will integrate its loyalty and payroll deduct program with Apple Pay at about 300,000 machines nationwide. By offering MORE. By offering MORE.

Apple 115

Apple Technology Security Mobile 115

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APRIL 26, 2019

Mobile order-ahead apps have skyrocketed in popularity, with more than 60 percent of all digital restaurant orders placed on a mobile device. Developments from Around the Mobile Order-Ahead World. Mobile order-ahead has also expanded into previously untapped fields. What do Customers Want Out of Mobile Order-Ahead?

Mobile 139

Mobile CA Boston Cards 139

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Apple , Inc. is eyeing the payments market in India, according to Eddy Cue, the company’s senior vice president for Internet Software and Services. In an interview with The Economic Times , Cue said Apple wants to launch Apple Pay in India but lacks the payment mechanism. “If If you think about [it] in U.S.

Apple 100

Apple Customer Experience Cards Software 100