Mobile payments

The telco-driven Isis wallet is working to transform its consumer base into its newest sales force.

BillingTree is giving consumers a test drive of its systems for handling car payments electronically.

South Africa-based Standard Bank will formally launch its SnapScan mobile payment application to more than 10,000 merchants across the country, allowing them to accept payments from customers using QR codes and PINs.

Airtel Money and Total Oil are rolling out a mobile payment service for consumers in Uganda to purchase fuel and make in-store purchases with their Airtel accounts at Total gas stations.

McDonald's Austria has launched a mobile ordering and payment app, Quick Mac, which allows customers to pay with the most common cashless payment options in the country.

Authentify Inc. says its new mobile authentication platform will work with the Samsung Galaxy S5's built-in fingerprint reader.

As InComm takes the platform it developed for Rogers Communications' suretap mobile wallet to new regions, it's mindful that the system should adapt to the needs of each market.

Russia's Sberbank, the third largest bank in Europe, will use Host Card Emulation technology for its mobile payments initiatives as a way to eliminate players and cut the costs of deployment.

LifeLock Inc. left many of its customers "extremely frustrated" when it pulled its mobile wallet app off the market last week because of potential security gaps, but those customers understand it was the right thing for the company to do, CEO Todd Davis says.

Nordea Bank will offer iZettle's mobile card readers to its small business customers in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Banks are not as aggressive as the many technology startups competing to dominate the mobile payments market, but their slow pace is justified, a new report says.

Prepaid product and transaction services company InComm has launched a platform for mobile payments and commerce.

LifeLock Inc. has temporarily pulled its LifeLock Wallet app off the market to address security issues.

Payments processor mopay is now offering an HTML5 in-app billing solution for online merchants doing business in India.

Groupon Inc. is expanding its in-store payments business with a new service that lets merchants identify customers with the company's coupons and enable them to pay for purchases using Apple Inc.'s iPad mini.

Yapital Financial AG is seeking bank partners in Europe for its mobile payment app, but it's insisting on a long courtship.

Host Card Emulation technology, which allows mobile devices to emulate a secure Near Field Communication transaction, is catching on fast so fast that it would be unwise for any company to ignore it, says ABNote CEO Steven Singer.

Users of new technology often invite derision—Google Glass wearers are "Glassholes," iPhone devotees are "iSheep"—and mobile wallet users may soon be the next target of such ridicule.

Square has added and removed many features over its few short years as it refines its mobile-pay pitch in an effort to win more merchants. Its removal of the Square Wallet app was the latest of many revisions to the company's strategy.

The Dutch startup Eaze has begun the public beta of its "Nod to Pay" app for the Google Glass headset and has added support for two Bitcoin wallets.