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Bank Technology News December 2010 Andrew Johnson |
2010 Was Banking's Year of Mobile; Payments Next The recent Verizon, At&T, and Discover deals, along with a few others, suggests that next year will be the year that mobile payments dominate the headlines in the United States. But which business model will lead the industry is still anyone's guess.  |
Bank Technology News January 2011 Shane Kite |
Discover Battles Rivals, Skeptics Discover Financial Services' execution of its long-expected "mobile wallet" will define its role in mobile commerce, a future where consumers make contactless payments with their cell phones and receive wireless deals as they enter stores.  |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2010 Gabriel et al. |
Carriers to Build Mobile Phone Payment Network Will we soon be swiping our cell phones in the check-out line?  |
BusinessWeek August 4, 2010 Eichenbaum & Collins |
Smartphones May Soon Replace Credit Cards AT&T and Verizon Wireless are readying a mobile payment system that could render plastic obsolete.  |
Bank Technology News May 2011 John Adams |
NFC Championship Still Eludes Gartner says the market for NFC-enabled handsets should expand past $240 billion in the U.S. by 2014, up from its current level of about $32 billion.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2010 Carl Bagh |
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Building Mobile Payment Network These wireless carriers want to make mobile wallet a reality.  |
Bank Technology News June 2006 Glen Fest |
Contactless Payments: Visa Wins Faceoff For E-wallets The firm hopes a pilot program at hockey and basketball games in Atlanta will seed the further development of e-wallet initiatives. It's a market estimated at $24 billion.  |
Bank Technology News May 2010 John Adams |
On Your Chip, Get Set, Pay!! Before the mobile contactless payments race has even kicked off, First Data and Visa have grabbed the wheels of the pace car to move the pack faster.  |
Bank Technology News April 2011 Andrew Johnson |
Apple Delays NFC Apple Inc. boasts that its iPhone "changes everything," but against the expectations of many bankers, it may not be changing payments-at least not this year.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2011 Tamara Rutter |
Stocks Cashing in on Mobile Payments Who will be the dominant player in the growing mobile payments arena?  |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Wade & Bills |
Waiting For Contact The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it's a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools.  |
CRM February 2012 Leonard Klie |
Consumers Want NFC-Enabled Mobile Wallets An analyst firm predicts that mobile shopping will create a multi billion-dollar industry for credit card companies, online retailers, and mobile operators.  |
Bank Technology News May 2009 Steve Bills |
Which Comes First, Stickers or The Phones? Card companies are betting that if they stimulate consumer demand for mobile payments, it will spur the phone networks and manufacturers to move faster on improving the technology.  |
U.S. Banker November 2008 Holly Sraeel |
Global Transformation Aiding Discover's Growth As banks race to cover all of their payments bases, one of the more exciting players to watch is Discover Financial Services.  |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Dan Caplinger |
Discover Financial Faces a Tough 2012 Analysts have mixed feelings about Discover. The target price for the stock is only around 10% higher than current levels, and earnings are seen remaining stagnant over the next year or two.  |
Bank Technology News November 2007 Anthony Malakian |
Strategic Alliances: Wells Teams With Discover For Merchant Payments Discover faces a fierce battle for merchant payments business from the likes of American Express. Wells Fargo is hungry to expand its merchant payment acceptance options. That makes a strategic alliance between the two firms a no brainer.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Are Visa and MasterCard Really Under Attack? I wouldn't bet on it. These moats are still safe.  |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Global Payments Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of payment processor Global Payments slipped more than 10% in intraday trading as investors digested worse-than-expected earnings.  |
InternetNews November 16, 2010 |
Leading Carriers Team for Mobile Commerce New joint venture, dubbed Isis, sees AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile partner in an ambitious mobile commerce platform that looks to finally deliver on the promise of the mobile wallet.  |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Credit Card Issuers Beware: The End Is Nigh! Whether Visa or the telecom consortium reaches the finish line first, or someone else bypasses the whole field out of the blue, the time for phone-based payments is coming soon  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2010 John Keeling |
MasterCard Results Are Mixed. Now What? MasterCard had a mixed bag of earnings news, so is now a time to invest?  |
Fast Company September 2010 Dan Macsai |
Your Smartphone Will Soon Double as Your Wallet The race is on to transform your smartphone into your wallet.  |
Bank Technology News March 2011 John Adams |
MasterCard Globetrots To Push Mobile MasterCard is lining up local partners and its own innovation lab to sell contactless transactions.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2006 Tom Taulli |
Global Payments: Looking Strong Management continues to strike deals to grow its payment processing and money transfer business. All in all, based on its track record, it's probably a strategy that should continue to work for shareholders.  |
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest |
How Will Payments Ride Rails? When mobile payments become an everyday reality for banks - and few forecast otherwise - experts say there will be crucial business-line decisions on the suitability of ACH, ATM or card association networks for particular payments.  |
Bank Technology News March 2007 Glen Fest |
Mobile Payments: FSTC Wants Turf Talks for Mobile Wallets FSTC and Clearing House officials are examining ways to find common ground and agreed-upon standards allowing banks, carriers and cell-phone manufacturers to finally roll out the mobile wallet that remains frustratingly futuristic.  |
Bank Technology News January 2008 John Adams |
Remote Access: Metavante Bulks Up In Mobile Arms Race Tech firms are bulking up their product rosters and bank relationships through a series of acquisitions and partnerships, in preparation for the mobile payments race.  |
Bank Systems & Technology October 30, 2007 Richard Winston |
Mobile Wallet Will Take Time to Mature In U.S. Contactless payments are a transitional technology on the way to the anticipated wallet phone.  |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 Olga Kharif |
Google's Search for a Digital Wallet Google is considering joining the crowded mobile payments field. NFC technology could turn its Android phones into checkbooks.  |
Bank Technology News May 2005 Holly Sraeel |
Nonbank Payments: Are Banks Green? Yes And No. If you take cash and payments out of the equation, who needs banks?  |
Bank Technology News June 1, 2008 Glen Fest |
Fractured World Of Contactless Cards To grow its Zip contactless payment platform, Discover Network has in place the chip orders, the merchant acquirer programs, terminal hardware deals and, of course, the user base. There's only one thing missing: the cards.  |
CRM April 2013 Kelly Liyakasa |
Adoption Problems Plague Digital Wallets Retailers must overcome security, awareness, and integration issues.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Tim Beyers |
Google Beats Apple (Finally) Wallet launches with key partners, putting the Mac maker on the defensive.  |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2010 Carl Bagh |
Visa Readies to Take on Rising Competition in Payment Biz The world's foremost payment processing company Visa has joined hands with Bank of America to start a trial of contactless payment system using smartphones.  |
Bank Technology News October 2008 Glen Fest |
Payment 'Stickers' Debut In Denver The Democratic National Convention in Denver was a coming-out party of sorts for First Data's near-term answer to the drive toward near-field communications technology.  |
The Motley Fool September 23, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Little Percentages Add Up Electronic payment processing is a repeatable business, and Global Payments reaps the benefits. Investors, there a lot of ways to play this profitable and promising sector.  |
Bank Technology News March 2008 John Adams |
Is it Time for Tix by Cell? Will the growth of mobile banking and a broad increase in overall mobile phone functionality make consumers more comfortable with using mobile phones to make small purchases?  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money Emerging technologies are currently gaining momentum while paper check usage is in decline, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve...  |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2010 Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for Visa After spending more than a year locked at a mediocre three-star rank, Visa has impressed enough top-performing members of the 165,000-strong Motley Fool CAPS community to climb up to four stars.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Carl Bagh |
Looming Threat for Visa, MasterCard From AT&T, Verizon Now your smartphone really can do everything -- including paying the bills!  |
Bank Technology News November 2007 Glen Fest |
Cards: Alt-Pays and Cards: Friends...and Foes Research states online alternatives like PayPal, Bill Me Later and Google Checkout are a daunting challenge to the card firms - even when they are on the same page.  |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Glen Fest |
What Exemption? Many thought leaving out small banks from rate caps was unworkable. With no word yet from card networks on a 2011 plan, the carveout could already be moot.  |
Bank Technology News August 2009 Daniel Wolfe |
PayPal Opens Up to Innovation From Outside its Walls PayPal hopes that opening its systems to outsiders will open up a vast new landscape for mobile and online payments.  |
Bank Systems & Technology September 28, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Is the End of Cash at Hand? The growing comfort with digital and wireless technologies may be largely responsible for the recent upswing in e-payments. Of course, the trend has not gone unnoticed by the financial services industry.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2011 |
Google to Test NFC-Based Mobile Wallet? This summer Google is going to begin testing a mobile payment service based on Near-Field-Communications technology, according to a report.  |
CIO April 17, 2012 Cameron Scott |
Paying with Smartphones to Outpace Credit Cards By 2020, Experts Say A Pew Research survey found that most tech insiders believe near field communications (NFC) payments will go mainstream  |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2010 April Taylor |
2 Stocks That May Spring a Leak Visa and MasterCard have benefited mightily from consumers' shift from paper to plastic, garnering fees on each transaction. Will these companies' moats survive 2011?  |
InternetNews January 10, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Visa Mobilizes Payments Platform Visa launched a suite of mobile technology tools, applications, security standards and business models meant to lay the foundation for the commercial availability of mobile payments and services to millions of mobile users around the world.  |
Bank Technology News October 2009 John Adams |
Partnering to Conquer the World The automated corporate payments world is too vast to be dominated by a single bank, and for U.S. Bank that means a strategy of collaboration and standardization is the best way to grab share.  |
InternetNews March 28, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Visa: Credit Goes to Mobile Payments Visa's CEO called mobile devices the most promising payment platform in the world today.  |