The appropriate use of customer payment data

Acquiring and sharing customer data has become "one of the most hotly negotiated" deal points in the mobile payments M&A community. A payments attorney asks a…

Litigation that may redefine mobile vs. plastic

Private litigation in New York pitting a group of merchants against Visa, MasterCard and a number of large banks could stifle innovation in the mobile space.

The new card

George Wallner, payments pioneer and founder of Hypercom, describes the promise of the "new card" in an interactive environment. (From the ATM & Mobile…

Square turns on money request app

February 17, 2014

Square Cash, a new money request feature from mobile POS provider Square, allows users to request money from other people or groups by using the Square Cash…

JETCO rolls out mobile NFC in Hong Kong and Macau

February 13, 2014

Joint Electronic Teller Services Ltd. is rolling out mobile NFC payments in Hong Kong and Macau with its member banks using the Gemalto LinqUs trusted service…

Easy card loading is a necessity in mobile wallets

George Wallner (founder of Hypercom) explains the feature every mobile payment provider must build into its digital wallet. (From the ATM & Mobile Executive…

'They're strangers to the idea of the physical card'

Today's younger generation is being trained to be tomorrow's mobile payment users, says George Wallner, CTO of Loop. "If they can't do something on their…

Why banks need to be in the mobile wallet business

by Dan Kramer — Senior Vice President, Marketing & Merchant Servic, SHAZAM

A recent Allied Market Research report indicates the global mobile wallet market is on target to reach $5.25 trillion in 2020, with a compound annual growth…

My 3-month experiment paying for everything by phone

George Wallner says people were wowed when he whipped out his phone instead of a card, but are "cool" and "convenient" enough to establish a new mode of…

PIN debit already developed for mobile

George Wallner describes the simple one-step PIN solution already developed by the mobile industry. (From the ATM & Mobile Executive Summit.)

Pay in-pay out network bridges the digital divide

February 4, 2014

Historically, ATM and POS network operators have been locked into card-based payments acquiring relationships that offer few options for generating additional…

Infographic: BLE vs. NFC

This infographic compares the key similarities and differences between Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and Near Field Communications (NFC) in how they are…

The main reason NFC hasn't caught on

Too many technologies (including NFC) ignore a necessary step toward merchant acceptance. "Users of NFC will be disappointed for many years to come," says…

A bigger issue than payment security

"It's not true that security is paramount," says George Wallner, CTO of Loop. (From the ATM & Mobile Executive Summit.)

The unavoidable problem for mobile payments at retail

This one issue causes enough retailer resistance to potentially keep mobile from gaining wide acceptance at the point of sale. (From George Wallner's keynote…

How mobile payments will evolve

George Wallner says, "There's not anything wrong with [today's] technology, it's just not supported." (From the ATM & Mobile Executive Summit.)

How secure are cards on mobile phones?

"Attacking a phone — especially if it has a piece of hardware to securely store the card data — is not a very rewarding process for a hacker." (George Wallner…

The challenge of Android mobile security

"Literally as soon as handset manufacturers sell a phone, they no longer care about that phone because they're already moving on to the next version," says…

How a mobile OS was exploited

CrowdStrike's CTO tells how his team exploited a phone using tools and techniques currently available "in the wild." The phone's owner felt personally…

An overview of the strengths of today's mobile security systems

Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, gives the "good news" in the fight for mobile security. He explains the systems and processes in place…