Mobile payments

Tradeshift has launched a payments and travel booking virtual assistant that uses voice recognition to manage ordering, payments and risk.

American Express is working with Facebook to explore different methods of customer engagement through the social media network’s Messenger app.

Facing more payments because of high-deductible insurance plans, 72% of consumers say they prefer to use electronic payment methods such as payment cards, Automated Clearing House or digital wallets to cover health care costs.

The market for one-touch home supply-ordering services like Amazon Dash is heating up, and forecasters say it’s not just homes, but offices and organizations that could fuel growth, from a surge in “smart” buildings wired with devices to order items with the push of a button.

After saying it would not support Android Pay in the U.K, Barclays is leaning on device agnostic mobile technology and its own developers to launch its own payments app for the operating system.

Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a mobile wallet for its small share of the smartphone market. But the company has been steadily developing this technology across much bigger platforms.

The digital revolution has not been kind to independent sales organizations and others in the merchant acquiring market, which has seen its long-standing business model upended by the mobile point of sale and other new technologies.

Who is Microsoft Wallet for? With just 1.6% of the U.S. smartphone market as of January, it's unlikely that even Microsoft believes Windows Phone users are a huge untapped audience for mobile payments.

Bank of America is betting on consumers’ future intentions over their current actions when it comes to building its digital wallet strategy.

Four state-run banks in Thailand and 15 corporations will soon begin registering for PromptPay, formerly known as the AnyID scheme, a national payments platform that will allow users to send money with only their national ID or mobile phone number.