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Samsung has reached an agreement with an online marketplace for financial products in India that will allow consumers to apply for credit cards and loans through the Samsung Pay app.

Samsung Electronics France is partnering with French card issuer Prepaid Financial Services to allow its line of PCS Mastercard prepaid cards to be loaded onto the Samsung Pay wallet.

Mobeewave, a provider of in-person contactless payment acceptance software, is getting an investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation that pushes a recent Series B funding round led by NewAlpha, Mastercard and Forestay Capital to nearly $20 million.

Samsung’s been pushing for government support for its blockchain and cryptocurrency technology for much of the past year, and early Galaxy S10 leaks suggest a built-in crypto wallet will be among the handset's planned features.

Just a few years ago, tech companies imagined a world where Bluetooth beacons would push alerts to consumers' smartphones as they walked by a store or navigated its aisles. The tech isn't gone, but it's become more subtle in how it's being used.

Samsung is exploring the development of a smartphone-based cryptocurrency wallet, according to a recent patent application the electronics giant filed in the U.K.

Staffers at the bank's flagship, multilevel branch in Manhattan say wearable tech has proven ideal for discreet communication among each other to speed customer service.

Payments technology veteran Will Graylin is looking to build support for OV Loop, a universal conversation and commerce app he developed that harnesses any handset’s texting capabilities to support voice, text or video messages with an e-wallet to store tokenized payments.

As VR and AR mature, new possibilities open up for customer interaction in a virtual space.

For merchants to reap the full benefits of the modern mobile payments ecosystem, their payments strategy can go beyond accepting a contactless tap-and-go card and encourage use of smartphone payments at the point of sale, writes Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association.

Starbucks has reported an impressive number of in-store sales in the U.S. coming through its mobile app, a figure that has climbed quarter after quarter since the 2009 introduction of the Starbucks Card app — until July 2017, when it reached 30% and has not budged from that number since.

Samsung Pay became available Thursday, allowing users to load UniCredit credit cards, MyPay and MyOne prepaid and debit cards for payment directly from the Samsung Pay app.

Regardless of some promising uptake numbers numbers, it’s obvious there are still many hurdles to clear before we see ubiquity, Rahul Shah of Applause writes.

A combination of software, operating system and development tools can turn in-vehicle "informatainment" systems into payment gateways, according to Jim Carroll, chief technology officer at Mobica.

A better camera should mean more accurate facial recognition. Will it spur more banks to embrace the technology?

The Olympics draw together fans from around the globe to cheer on their fellow citizens, and having such a diverse group of people in one spot can inspire companies to experiment with cutting-edge technologies.

Due to new and advanced analytical and analysis practices such as shopping behavior analysis, customer data, including credit card info, now travels to different teams within the organization, multiplying the opportunities for data leakage and exposure, writes Yo Delmar, vice president of GRC Solutions at MetricStream.

While consumer adoption of mobile payments remains sluggish, research behind the scenes to figure out what consumers want from mobile apps is brisk. Proprietary mobile apps from retailers are becoming a hotspot of development, with Target Corp. rolling out Target Wallet this week, joining numerous other retailer mobile apps.

MobilePay, Danske’s digital-pay subsidiary, wants Nordic banks to offer a single payment platform to counter challengers like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

The slow and difficult EMV migration has slowed major adoption of contactless cards, but there are signs that momentum may be turning around.