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• Apple Inc. said it is bringing its Apple Pay mobile-payments service to Japan with its new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus smart phones, and Apple Watch Series 2. Apple Pay will work with Japan’s variant of near-field communication (NFC) contactless technology known as FeliCa. • The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial …
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Blackhawk Buys extrameasures and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Prepaid card services provider Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. acquired extrameasures LLC, a promotions and incentives firm that offers Visa-branded and private-label rewards and gift cards. The deal follows Blackhawk’s acquisitions of other incentives companies, including Parago, InteliSpend, CardLab, and Incentive Solutions. • Prepaid card provider Green Dot Corp. …
Read More »Near Field of Dreams
Remember when NFC was a dead letter in payments? Well, it’s undergoing quite a resurrection, thanks to EMV and mobile wallets like Apple Pay. When Apple Pay burst upon the payments scene 18 months ago, the way it allowed iPhones to connect instantly with point-of-sale terminals seemed like something fresh …
Read More »Opening up the Club
An exclusive coterie of card networks runs the business of issuing and managing payment tokens. But that elite club soon may have more members. Looking for a business with growth opportunities? Look no further, ladies and gentlemen, than at the business of the token service provider. A sexy business? Definitely …
Read More »Opening up the Club
By Jim Daly An exclusive coterie of card networks runs the business of issuing and managing payment tokens. But that elite club soon may have more members. Looking for a business with growth opportunities? Look no further, ladies and gentlemen, than at the business of the token service provider. A …
Read More »The Brand Power of Apple and Samsung, Plus HCE, Are Lending Momentum to Contactless
The role of EMV in pushing tap-and-pay solutions is well known, but research released on Tuesday indicates the brand value of Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. can’t be underestimated. At the same time, a cloud-based technology called host card emulation is also playing a role in spreading contactless …
Read More »Putting Self-Checkout on a Mobile Device
Developing a self-pay app is fairly straightforward. The tough part might be waiting for merchants and consumers to catch up. It doesn’t take much to imagine miniaturizing the large cash wraps found in home-improvement and grocery stores that consumers use to scan and pay for their own merchandise. The …
Read More »At Its Innovation Center, Visa Puts an In-Store Self-Checkout App to the Test
Visa Inc. is providing emerging self-checkout provider Digital Retail Apps another venue to showcase its smart phone-based service by enabling it at the Visa Innovation Center, its technology lab in San Francisco. Toronto-based Digital Retail Apps says Visa will integrate the SelfPay technology into the Visa Everywhere Shop app, enabling …
Read More »Aggregation Forever
Even though mobile wallets appear to be the better bet, card consolidators Coin, Swyp, and Stratos are sticking to their plans. Thumbing through a wallet trying to find the right payment card or loyalty card to rack up points at the cash register is an age-old experience for many …
Read More »How Google Wallet’s New P2P Focus Could Rescue the App From a Mediocre Legacy
The latest version of Google Wallet tended to get lost in all the hoopla surrounding Google Inc.’s launch two weeks ago of its Android Pay mobile-payments service, but while Wallet now has more modest ambitions, it could prove to be a potent force in the rapidly growing person-to-person payments business. …
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