Mobile wallets

The move is an extension of a pilot project begun in the fall. T-Mobile says it sought to give customers a better deal on digital banking and stand out from its rivals.

Payments providers can use this announcement as a chance to evaluate their mobile payment offerings and gain a better understanding of consumers’ evolving expectations in order to better serve their merchants, writes Casey Bullock, general manager of global enterprise e-commerce for North America at Worldpay.

SnapPay has grown rapidly in its role as an acquirer and payments gateway for Chinese mobile payment acceptance in North America, and it is ready to show merchants the next step.

Alipay Financial Services’ Hong Kong unit is collaborating with McDonald’s, enabling consumers to order and pay for items at the fast-food chain within the AlipayHK wallet.

Contactless transit fare systems are drawing lots of investment despite several false starts in the U.S. But new numbers out of London show there are clear and multiple benefits if the infrastructure can catch up.

Mastercard has spent years attempting to overhaul transit payments to allow riders to pay with a contactless credit or debit card. This time around, it expects Apple Pay to play a significant role.

Beyond Apple’s glitzy product rollouts this week, the tech giant quietly notified users of new policies and a fee to Apple Pay Cash, the account in which the Apple Card deposits rewards.

Before we can advertise the security benefits of digital wallets, we have to address their vulnerabilities, writes Jared McClure, co-founder and COO of CrayPay.

Italian payments provider Axepta-BNL Group is launching the WeChat Pay service to its clients, saying it is the first in the country to offer the popular Chinese mobile payment and social networking app.

Walmart has a good grasp of where it sits among global retail giants, but its position among the financial services industry is still evolving under the guidance of Karla Allen, its senior director of payments innovation.

Barclays plc has spent years experimenting with creative ways to promote mobile payments, and it's not showing signs of stopping.

Amazon’s an attention machine, making its reported attention to Mexico’s criticized mobile payment project something banks have little choice but to see as a welcome development instead of a threat.

Barclays is preparing to merge its wearable mobile payments product BPay with its more popular Pingit app, after it struggled to attract users.

It may take several more months of testing before it is deployed in a payments application, but a new money transfer specification the NFC Forum has developed carries the organization's promise of becoming an alternative to QR-code technology.

Wirecard and Cimple Marketing have teamed with Estonia-based cruise ship operator Tallink Grupp to enable shops on its 14 vessels to accept China’s top three payment options.

Canadian cross-border payment provider SnapPay is expanding its two-year partnership with China's Ant Financial to bring the Alipay app to the country's FoodyMart grocery chain.

China dwarfs the U.S. market in e-commerce adoption and is likely to be soon giving lessons to internet executive from U.S. and Western countries.

Mobile payments adoption is patchy, but it's getting a higher profile in social media.

Hong Kong's mobile wallet AlipayHK has expanded to enable cross-border payments for the first time in Japan and other regions of the Greater Bay Area.

Walmart India will partner with the PhonePe network to offer a mobile payment option at Walmart's B2B cash-and-carry stores.