GigaomT-Mobile goes after the un-banked with Mobile Money
T-Mobile is becoming the public face of a prepaid financial service that gives customers access to traditional banking features. Read more »
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T-Mobile is becoming the public face of a prepaid financial service that gives customers access to traditional banking features. Read more »
Online and, especially, in-store payments are likely to advance in 2014. Banks, retailers and other payment processors are all making strides to simplify their processes and to come front and center… Read more »
According to a report in NFC Times, France’s number-three mobile operator has effectively put its pioneering NFC program on hold, with top executives associated with the technology leaving the company. Read more »
Financial institutions are looking beyond FICO scores to Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to measure a borrower’s risk profile. That’s not always bad. Read more »
PayPal tried to revamp its developer platform this spring for the new mobile commerce reality, but it realized it wasn’t moving fast enough. It decided to buy Braintree, which already had… Read more »
Capital One says it has the data it needs and is withdrawing from Isis, the mobile carriers’ NFC-based mobile payments effort. If banks are losing faith in Isis, that’s a bad… Read more »
Sweden’s iZettle is now at Square’s doorstep thanks to help from Banco Santander. The company has updated its credit card reader for the North American market. Could a push into the… Read more »
iZettle will start offering its credit card reader to its U.K. banking customers. That gives iZettle another key distribution point as it waits for Square and PayPal to challenge it in… Read more »
The upcoming showdown between Google Wallet and soon-to-be competitor Isis is just one of many interesting story lines that will take hold this year as companies ratchet up their mobile wallet… Read more »
The other day I had coffee with an entrepreneur whom we’ll call Shai. Shai was entertaining me with good, and not-so-good, stories about his experiences learning the ropes in the new… Read more »