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Apple Iphone showing home screen with application icons. There is a blue globe beside the iphone. This symbolises the global reach of modern communication tools.
Mobile wallet makers are not content to stay in their own backyards. Many prominent names in mobile payments are increasingly active on foreign soil. (Image: iStock)
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Apple Pay

Apple Pay was originally rumored to launch in China rather than the U.S., and the country is still on the company's radar. There are also reports that Apple is eyeing the U.K. as one of Apple Pay's next territories. (Image: iStock)
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Seamless/SEQR

Sweden's Seamless is aggressively expanding its SEQR mobile wallet throughout Europe. In March, it deployed SEQR in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France and Italy. It also has its eyes on the U.K. and U.S.
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A logo sits on a balloon advertising 4G internet services inside the Orange SA store in Toulouse, France, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. France's gross domestic product fell 0.1 percent in the three months through September, national statistics office Insee said in an e-mailed statement. Photographer: Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg
Balint Porneczi/Bloomberg

Orange Cash

The French telco launched Orange Cash last year in France and is expanding it to Spain. The mobile wallet operates on Visa's payWave contactless technology. (Image: Bloomberg News)
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Vodafone Wallet

Vodafone's loyalty card app, which it is upgrading to a true NFC mobile wallet, is available in Germany, Spain, the U.K. and the Netherlands.
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Residents transfer money using the M-Pesa banking service at a store in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. In the six years since Kenya's M-Pesa brought banking-by-phone to Africa, the service has grown from a novelty to a bona fide payment network. Photographer: Trevor Snapp/Bloomberg
Trevor Snapp/Bloomberg

M-Pesa

M-Pesa is most famous for its popularity in Kenya and other parts of Africa, and last year the mobile payment system began seeking an audience in Europe, starting with Romania. (Image: Bloomberg News)
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Mozido

Mozido is buying its way into China with its purchase of Beijing-based PayEase. Mozido also recently bought U.S.-based CorFire from South Korean IT services provider SK C&C.
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MasterPass, Visa Checkout/V.me

These major U.S. card brands launched their digital wallets with a global strategy. MasterPass, for example, debuted in Australia and Canada before finally coming home to the U.S. And Visa Europe is expanding acceptance of V.me, a digital wallet that launched in the U.S., where it is now called Visa Checkout.
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The Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Alipay.com Co. website, displayed on a Samsung Electronics Co. tablet, is seen in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, will go public in 2014 after talks with Hong Kong’s exchange on a proposed corporate governance structure fell apart, said people with knowledge of the matter. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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Alibaba/Alipay

Alibaba and Alipay are lining up alliances with companies outside their home turf of China. The companies are reportedly open to collaborating with Apple and PayPal, and Alibaba's recent backing of Paytm gives it a mobile wallet presence in India. (Image: Bloomberg News)
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Coinbase

Bitcoin wallets are a natural fit for international payments. Coinbase, a U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange, has expanded to the U.K., where it hopes to take advantage of the country's Faster Payments System. (Image: Shutterstock)
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