Articles in Payments
According to a wide-ranging research report from Berg Insight, in-store mobile wallet payments in EU 27+2 is forecasted to grow from less than €0.1 billion in 2012 at a compound annual growth rate of 275% …
Further research from Berg Insight suggests that there were NFC mobile wallet services commercially live in 13 countries worldwide at the end of Q1-2013, up from just 6 countries at the end of 2011. However, …
New research from international payments provider VocaLink reveals that 60% of UK consumers now own a smartphone and are using them as payment devices on the move. However current mobile payment behaviour remains fragmented with …
The conclave of judges for the Internet Retailing Awards – sponsored by Venda – has gathered and are considering the entries to the ten categories in this year’s awards and we expect to see …
M&S is poised to start a limited mobile payments trial using new start up technology from Paddle. The trial, due to go live in June, will allow users who sign up to Paddle to buy …
Monitise is tapping into the growing interest for mobile point of sale (mPOS) services with the launch of a white-labelled mobile payment service that helps banks, mobile operators and acquirers offer their business customers the …
Traders at this year’s Real Food Festival, which took place at London’s Southbank Centre over the May bank holiday weekend, were able to take card payments via mobile phone without having to invest in any …
The annual – and much coveted – Internet Retailing Awards, this year sponsored by Venda , are looking for nominations for this year’s gala dinner to rival the Oscars on 26 June. This year, the …
Mobile payments is currently a three way battle for consumers being fought out between retailers, banks and mobile network operators – each keen to ‘own the customer’ – but it will be retailers and banks …
A third of businesses, regardless of size, believe that 20% of their revenues will come from mobile by 2014, with smaller merchants expecting more growth in the mobile channel and are as likely to have …
With Internet Retailing Expo 2013 continuing as you read this, we take a look at some of the key take aways from the SoLoMo (Social-Mobile-Local) session on day one. Look out in the coming weeks …
Girl Scout councils in California, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois and Arizona, gearing up to sell cookies for charity have selected the PayAnywhere app and credit card reader as the mobile credit card processing solution of choice.
New research carried out by performance marketing specialists Intela has found that consumer willingness to purchase goods and services over their mobile devices has increased in the past year, with a half of UK smartphone …
WWF, in partnership with UK mobile operator, Digital Spring Mobile, has launched the first UK mobile network designed to generate funds to protect wildlife and the environment. WWF Wildlife Mobile is operated by UK mobile …
Registration is open for Internet Retailing Expo at the Birmingham NEC 20-21 March and the speaker line up is taking shape. The Social-Local-Mobile (SoLoMo) session already has speakers from PayPal, Pizza Hut, SecretSales, Cooper&Co, Justbought.it, …
Style-passport , a fashion retailer specialising in holiday fashion and beauty products, has launched a mobile optimised website, designed to expand its reach and provide customers with a secure and convenient method to complete transactions …
Contactless payments, commercial mobile payment offerings, cloud-based solutions and data analytics will dominate the financial services market in 2013, according to Frost & Sullivan, as mobile devices have become a vital interaction channel in the …
Jersey tea and coffee merchants Cooper & Co have broken new ground in The Channel Islands by becoming the first local business to offer a method for paying at the till using a smartphone.
Juniper Research has published its revised forecasts for the global NFC market, significantly scaling back its growth estimates for the North American and Western European markets.
Research conducted by WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, has today revealed findings which show that mobile payment page optimisation and screen size are impacting the number of consumers willing …

