Mobile payments

Despite significant efforts by stakeholders to move the needle on mobile payments, the category simply isn't taking off.

The internet wasn't built to accommodate identity, which challenges initiatives to balance security with user efficiency.

When retailers run tests in which coupon offers are delivered directly to the Apple Pay or Android Pay mobile wallet, rather than as a simple text notification, the redemption potential skyrockets 300%.

Between Brexit, Dodd-Frank uncertainty and the mobile revolution, issuers and financial services companies must combine past performance data and forward-looking information to gain insight, writes Henri Wajsblat, director and head of financial services at Anaplan.

LevelUp is working with LuvJo, a New York-based firm that specializes in online ordering technology for small restaurants, to support order-ahead capabilities for thousands of coffee shops, juice bars and food trucks across the U.S.

A situation brewing in movie theaters that hinges on card network rules could have broad implications for the entertainment industry.

Consumers who either are tiring of the password overload, or those who understand that passwords are antiquated security, are driving the fair amount of biometric adoption, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

Financial institutions need to take notice of this phenomenon and ramp up their payments infrastructure to support these developments, writes Chet Kamat, senior vice president of Oracle Financial Services.

Uber India this week announced its integration with Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the mobile payments technology developed by the government-sanctioned National Payments Corporation of India and two local banks, expanding mobile payments access to Uber riders and drivers.

Chinese tourists visiting Malaysia can now use their Alipay mobile wallet at all 242 Starbucks locations in the country.