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One Touch mobile payments going international
In September, One Touch mobile payments was announced with PayPal in the US, the industry’s first and only single touch payment experience across Android and iOS. Today, in an effort to help people and businesses connect more seamlessly, reduce friction from buying on mobile and support innovation globally, Braintree are rolling out One Touch with PayPal in [...]
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Mobile no longer an alternative channel
The GSMA has predicted that global smartphones will hit 1.75 billion units by the end of 2014. Mobility has become the hub of computing and connectivity. As smartphone adoption rates grow year after year and broadband penetration becomes a norm in daily life, the banking, commerce and payment sectors are also transitioning through the mobile channel. If financial institutions [...]
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The impact of cyber weekend
Cyber weekend, the culmination of Black Friday and Black Monday combined is over for another year and IBM’s James Lovell, European Retail Solution Leader discusses some of the key findings to come from it. “Although the average value of mobile spend on Cyber Monday actually fell from 2013, it is telling to note that the percentage of [...]
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Global banks investment in payment technology as top priority
It has been revealed that payment technology is set to be a key area of focus for banks across the globe in 2015 – according to the Ovum ICT Enterprise Insights* program, based on interviews with 6,500 senior IT executives. The shift in payment technology modernisation, brought on by diversification and mobile channels in particular, is a truly global [...]
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Smartphones key to biometric e-commerce
MasterCard is seeking to partner with Visa to use biometric information to replace passwords for online payments. Existing password-based online security authentication is known as 3D Secure, which the two companies hope to replace with a new, multi-layered approach to authentication. MasterCard’s Bob Reany says this would involve making use of biometric technology such as [...]
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