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Mobile Payments: CakePay Is Eating the World

FICO

As a payments professional with a sweet tooth, the name is as good as it gets: CakePay , the mobile payment app rolled out by The Cheesecake Factory a few months ago. Payment apps boost operational efficiencies. A second trip to come back to pick it up with your payment card. And it was great.

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Why Americans Are Slower To Adopt Mobile Payments

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From aspects of its innovation, to consumer and merchant adoption rates, to what could be next for this method of payment, experts say the shopping landscape still has much room to grow. As for the past two years and mobile wallets, there hasn’t been the evolution that analysts originally expected.

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Wells Fargo Launches Contactless Credit, Debit Cards

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Wells Fargo announced Tuesday (April 2) the launch of contactless consumer credit and debit cards. In a press release , Wells Fargo said the new cards will enable customers to complete transactions quickly and with a single tap at millions of merchants and transit systems that accept contactless payments.

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Adding Fuel In The Tank For Mobile At The Pump?

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gas station owners to install EMV chip card readers at the pump. Estimates show that gas station operators might have to spend as much as $30,000 per location to bring the payment tech up to snuff (regardless of the deadline), as noted by the National Association of Convenience Stores. One beneficiary may be mobile payments.

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Mastercard’s Incoming CEO’s Take On The Future Of Payments

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However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. That team was a new initiative created to combine core products, digital payments, Mastercard Labs and processing activities.

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Mobile Monday: Helping Customers Understand EMV & Mobil Payments

Fintech Labs Insights

This week’s EMV “liability shift” in the United States is expected to be a boon for mobile payments. Savvy issuers should seize on the negative publicity and confusion around EMV plastic cards and push NFC options both within the native app and on desktop and mobile websites.

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Google Goes ‘Hands Free’ For Mobile Payments

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We’ve said it before and we will say it again — when it comes to mobile payments, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, any more than there is one-size-fits-all payment method. But what is clear is that the mobile solution that will ultimately garner the critical mass needed to ignite it will solve a problem for a consumer.