India: Moving a Billion People into Digital Finance
By Elliot Maras, article first appeared in CCN: Bitcoin, Blockchain, FinTech, & Cryptocurrency News CCN: Digital finance has great potential to improve life for consumers and merchants in India....
View ArticleMobile Payments on the rise
By Rani Molla for Bloomberg, Back in 2012, the prospect of consumers paying for things using their phones seemed close at hand. Analysts predicted explosive growth — to the tune of $60 billion in...
View ArticleHow Mobile Payments Reshape Lifestyles
By LI YUAN for wsj.com A family’s finances show how phones increasingly become wallets Piao Jianfeng says he seldom carries his wallet and hasn’t used an ATM to withdraw cash for two years. Instead,...
View ArticleChina’s mobile payment revolution is going to Africa
By Claire van den Heever for The World Post, a partnership between Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute, CAPE TOWN, South Africa — With the launch of Apple Pay in mainland China on Feb. 18, Apple...
View ArticleSquare’s new product “Cash” can now hold a balance
By Matthew Lynley for Techcrunch, Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to...
View ArticleThe broken world of mobile payments and how to fix it
By John Rampton for techcrunch.com It’s being predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the U.S. will grow 210 percent. Despite this impressive gain, it turns out that not...
View ArticleReport: Facebook Is Turning Messenger Into A Mobile Wallet
By Parmy Olson for Forbes, Facebook has big plans to turn Messenger into an “Everything App” that will replace many others found on your smartphone, but one of the most important shifts will be turning...
View ArticleMobile Payments to Continue Showing Strong Adoption Rate
By Polina Chernykh for Coinspeaker With millions of users all over the world, the mobile payments technology is expected to significantly change and improve the way we pay for products and services....
View ArticleSwitch to Digital Wallets in Kenya or payments’ reform
About 12 years ago, Kenya announced the launch of M-Pesa – a mobile money transfer, microfinancing service. Back then, it was truly a step forward in the world of digital payments. But as time goes by,...
View ArticleJumio offers free AI based identity verification service to fight COVID-19
via IBS Intelligence Palo Alto-based mobile payments and ID verification provider Jumio has announced the launch of Jumio Go for Good, which provides a free identity verification service through its...
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