Chase Visa cardholders can now use Samsung Pay

Chase Visa cardholders can now use Samsung Pay to make simple and safe mobile payments, the companies announced. “Samsung Pay gives our customers another convenient way to pay with their Chase Visa credit, debit or Chase Liquid cards,” said Gavin Michael, Head of Digital for Chase. “They choose how they want to pay.” Starting today, Chase

MTN Rwanda Deepens Financial Inclusion with Mobile Money Regional Remittance

In yet another exciting development in mobile money innovation, MTN Rwanda, the country’s telecommunications leader has announced that it has opened its corridor with Safaricom in Kenya that will see MTN Mobile Money and M-PESA users send and receive money seamlessly and affordably between the two countries. This comes just a month after the Company

Kenyan Dairy Processor Partners with Safaricom on Cashless Solution

Leading dairy processor, New KCC has partnered with Safaricom to roll out a Kshs. 55.7 million cashless solution, to enhance business efficiency and address risks associated with cash handling. Through a mobile application, over 200 sales and distribution agents for New KCC will be able to place and process orders, access real time reports on

Terra Launches Connect to Mobilize International Remittance Growth

Terra, a mobile-first international network, for low-value remittances, launched Terra Connect, its application programming interface suite, to enable mobile wallet providers offer affordable, accessible international remittance products and maximize global reach. The size of the African remittance wallet is valued at USD 65 billion, with more than 30 million migrants initiating 300 plus million remittances

MasterCard Cardholders Can Now Use Vodafone Wallet to Pay Contactlessly

Vodafone Wallet users will be able to pay for goods and services contactlessly using their MasterCard cards, with the service scheduled to launch to consumers in European markets within weeks.  Contactless card payments using Vodafone Wallet require a Vodafone NFC SIM and are supported on more than 60 Android smartphones. Customers can simply: Activate the

Merchant Solutions Could be the Answer to Mobile Money’s Last Mile Issue

The mobile money agency system has made huge progress in increasing access to financial services and reducing the cost of transactions, though in terms of serving the “last mile” – those wishing to make single dollar transactions – there is still much to be done. But the answer may be staring us in the face,

FIS Helps Accelerate Acceptance of Mobile Payments at the Pump

FIS, a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, announced a technology agreement with SAP, in which FIS will integrate the FIS Mobile Payment Enablement Gateway solution with SAP Vehicles Network running on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. When used together with SAP Vehicles Network, the FIS Mobile Payment

Chase and P97 Enable Mobile Payments for Retail Fuel and Convenient Stores

Following this week’s partnership announcement at Money 2020 between MCX and Chase Pay, mobile commerce provider P97 Networks, Inc. announced that they will launch a program to enable mobile commerce with Chase Pay to pay at the pump and make in-store purchases with their smart phones. Chase Pay is a simple, rewarding and secure payment

SumUp Expands to U.S. with Launch of New NFC Card Terminal

SumUp, Europe’s leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company, launched its mobile payments platform in the United States. The country migrates to EMV chip technology as new payment standard, including a liability shift in case of fraudulent transactions starting this month. SumUp’s proprietary, end-to-end payments platform is the first fully-certified EMV mPOS system in the world to

Virtusa Announces Tokenization Solution Accelerator for Providing Secure Mobile Payments

Virtusa Corporation, a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to transform the customer experience, announced the availability of vToken, a solution accelerator. The solution was developed for enterprises, issuing banks and issuer processors that are considering providing Token Service Provider (TSP) functionality and building in-house EMVCo