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Google has launched a new app called Hands Free that doesn’t require you to take your phone out of your pocket and uses face biomerics. The new system is available on Android and iOS devices and is currently being tested in San Francisco. Hands Free uses face biometrics and your phone’s location as two identifying factors [...]

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As reported earlier this year, Vodafone has become the first operator in the world to offer its customers the opportunity to make contactless PayPal payments using a smartphone. It is the latest update to the Vodafone Wallet and shows that smartphones have the potential to consign leather wallets to the dresser draw of history. Indeed, [...]

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Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service, is set to launch in the UK in March. Android Pay, which was launched in September, lets consumers pay at store checkout counters by waving their Android smartphones in front of an NFC POS. The UK launch would be Android Pay’s second international market and a major step forward for the fledgling. In [...]

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The GSMA has announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the latest report on the state of financial services worldwide, there were 1 billion mobile money transactions in December 2015 at around 33 million per day [...]

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Mobile proximity payments are the smallest, but fastest growing segment for mobile payments, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s new m-payments forecast* shows that the total global user base for mobile payment segments will increase from an estimated 689.99 million users in 2014 to 4.77 billion users in 2019. This forecast also includes m-commerce [...]

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