8/23/2024 10:04:30 AM USDC to embrace tap-and-go payments after Apple opens up NFC By FinTech Collective Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of stablecoin firm Circle, says his firm is planning to introduce tap-and-go payments on iPhones after a move...
8/23/2024 10:03:34 AM Apple to open up tap-to-pay technology to other developers By FinTech Collective Apple will open the contactless payments technology on its iPhone to third-party developers in multiple countries, following regulatory...
3/7/2019 6:34:23 PM Coming soon: A world without cash By FinTech Collective As soon as this spring, riders of NYC subways and buses will be able to tap a contactless bank card or mobile wallet at turnstiles. The...
3/6/2015 2:22:24 AM Canadian payment tech provider Mobeewave closes $6.5M round led by Russia’s SBT Venture Capital By FinTech Collective Mobeewave turns NFC-enabled phones into secure contactless payment terminals that can receive payments from any NFC wallet without any...
2/20/2015 3:36:43 AM Samsung's LoopPay: What it is, and why you should care By Gareth Jones If you have never played with the Kickstarter funded LoopPay, the following article does a good job of explaining how it works -...
2/20/2015 3:27:13 AM Samsung buys mobile payments group LoopPay to compete with Apple By Gareth Jones Samsung has just made a big move in mobile payments by acquiring LoopPay. Whilst Apple's iPhone has bet on NFC to enable it's mobile...
1/20/2015 4:16:03 AM Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard By Gareth Jones Originally (and unfortunately) called Isis, Softcard, has had hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into it by it's JV backers AT&T,...
9/5/2014 2:59:34 AM Isis — the payments consortium, not the jihadist group — rebrands its mobile wallet as Softcard By Gareth Jones What the #%@& next?!? That must be the question these guys are asking themselves? Apple and MCX mobile payments announcements can't be...
9/5/2014 2:35:08 AM Apple's Mobile Wallet May Not Pay Off for a While By Gareth Jones Nudy photo's getting stolen from iCloud, reminding merchants to turn on the NFC capability in their POS systems and educating the...
8/22/2014 3:40:19 PM Cash is a pain in the ass: Blackpool donkey goes contactless By Gareth Jones Barclaycard and Dillon the Donkey have teamed up to beat London Transport to contactless payments. If Apple make NFC a part of their next...
5/30/2014 2:51:33 AM Whither the mobile wallet? By Gareth Jones 700 mobile payments start-ups on Angel List, ISIS adding 20,000 new customers per day in April, Apple rumours of NFC in the next iPhone.....
4/6/2014 1:18:29 PM Google Wallet Loses Another Top Executive By Gareth Jones Another key Executive leaves Google Wallet.. Peter Hazlehurst’s departure comes hot on the heels of Philippe Dauman who recently left to...