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Samsung Pay Makes Its European Debut

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Samsung Pay has officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country. Samsung Pay is the first mobile payment service of its kind to be launched in Spain, giving it a head start in the market over Apple Pay and Android Pay.

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Visa Tap To Phone Expands POS Acceptance For Retailers

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12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. And for [Visa], the question has always been: How do we help businesses of all sizes use those devices to better serve their customers?”. The mPOS landscape got more interesting today (Jan.

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Kroger Introduces Contactless Mobile Pay At QFC Stores

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According to the press release, the Kroger app will be compatible with “Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Fitbit Pay, mobile banking apps and contactless chip cards, underpinned by near-field communication (NFC) technology.” So far, the contactless pay app has been introduced in 61 QFC stores.

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Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes

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Looking back over a five-year time frame, with an eye on innovation that has enabled all of the above top-down momentum in payments, the executive said the most important events have included a real “difference between infrastructure changes and what the customer might see.”. A lot of companies do that, but we don’t.”

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It’s A Wrap: Innovation Project 2016 Recap

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Innovation Project 2016 — where hundreds of leaders across the payments, commerce, tech and security ecosystems joined together under one roof with one mission: navigating the balance between the leading and the bleeding edge. Especially when your talking innovations in payments. So, how did Day 2 end up?

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Why BoA Isn’t After Its Own Mobile Wallet

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“We want to be in an open wallet ecosystem,” Hari Gopalkrishnan, client-facing platforms technology CIO at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told Bank Innovation. After all, what Bank of America is focused on is getting consumers to use its cards to spend — regardless of which wallet it’s on. It’s an open wallet strategy.”.

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Why Credit Unions Can’t Take Member Trust For Granted

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That’s reflected in data (this is Data Drivers, after all) from the Credit Union Innovation Index , a joint effort between PSCU and PYMNTS. PYMNTS and PSCU found that 59 percent of credit union members said they want innovation, though it wouldn’t necessarily sway them to choose one CU over another. Avoiding Complacency.