Chimecard has added Apple Pay, a new service to instantly pay friends and family, and picked up another $9 million in funding Chime has raised a total of $21 million to date. Lauren Kolodny, recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital list, led the financing for Aspect Ventures and has joined Chime’s…
Wells Fargo Wallet is integrating into the existing Wells Fargo mobile app experience for Android users, this summer. Wells Fargo Wallet quickly and conveniently adds eligible Wells Fargo debit and credit cards so customers may easily make purchases by tapping an Android phone at millions of NFC-enabled payment terminals worldwide. For more seamless money management,…
MasterCard is adding a new tool for small- and medium-sized (SME) businesses to control, prevent and monitor e-commerce transactions in real time. The solution, a complement to payments platform Simplify Commerce, helps businesses maximize online sales by letting legitimate orders through and keeping fraudulent transactions out. With a mobile app and desktop dashboard, merchants can…
In Other News: BLUESNAP (merchants); NCR (Bankia Spain); PROGREXION (FICO); and TSYS (Featurespace). BLUESNAP – BlueSnap released the Cleanse Report to help merchants analyze their sales traffic and develop an action plan to optimize their sales funnel. So much effort goes into converting shoppers into buyers – advertising, marketing, website and checkout page localization, payments…
Financial institutions can now select INSIDE Secure’s MatrixHCE, a VisaReady, approved mobile banking and payment solution, to roll out mobile wallet applications within a few weeks. MatrixHCE is a proven software solution that effectively protects sensitive data on mobile devices and allows mobile phones to be used as payment cards (credit, debit or prepaid) in…
Samsung Pay is giving U.S. users another way to slim down their physical wallets with the support of membership features. Samsung Pay users now have easy, direct access to merchant membership and loyalty cards to receive savings, rewards and other offers—all on their supported Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The average American household carries almost 30 loyalty…
WePay, which fuels GoFundMe, FreshBooks, and Constant Contact, announced a white label mobile point of sale solution that enables platforms to seamlessly handle in-person payments in addition to online payments. WePay’s white label mobile point of sale solution enables platforms to seamlessly handle in-person payments in addition to online payments. Now any platform can offer…
BlueSnap says MasterPass by MasterCard is now available in its Powered Buy Platform to give merchants the frictionless checkout experience they need to reach global shoppers and solve checkout abandonment with higher payment conversions. MasterPass by MasterCard is a global, digital commerce platform that connects consumers with merchants, enabling them to make fast, seamless and…
A new report projects the global mobile payments market will grow at a CAGR of 36.26% by 2020. Asia-Pacific will lead the way forward. NOVONOUS says the industry is emerging as one of the most diverse, competitive and technologically complex market in the recent years. Currently the Global Mobile Payments market includes POS Devices Companies,…
TSYS and Dejavoo Systems announced the EMV certification of all Dejavoo Z and V Series devices. TSYS also announced that Ecobank has deployed the latest version of the PRIMESM payments solution platform, PRIME 4, to support its acquirer processing of MasterCard, Visa and UnionPay International point-of-sale (POS) transactions across 28 countries in Middle Africa. Compatible…
Walmart introduced Walmart Pay – a fast, easy and secure way for customers to pay with their smartphones in Walmart stores. Now, customers in Texas are some of the first to use the checkout-changing service as it’s available in each of the more than 480 Walmart stores in the state. Built with the goal of…
Turkcell has added a new smartphone to its own-branded smartphone family T-Series and T Tablet. T70, Turkcell’s brand new, LTE-compatible smartphone, supports LTE speeds of up to 150 Mbps while Turkcell network offers the fastest LTE speeds available on commercial devices on the back of LTE Advanced Pro and carrier aggregation technologies. T70 comes with…