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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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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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Hard Knocks Edition: MCX, EMV And Square

PYMNTS

Dick Durbin (D-IL) decided to take on EMV. A statement released by MCX CEO Brian Mooney on May 16, via a PR rep, said that MCX is delaying a nationwide rollout of its CurrentC mobile payments product. As MCX has said many times, the mobile payments space is just beginning to take shape; it is early in a long game.

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Mobile Payments: Adornments For the U.S., mVisa For The Unbanked In Nigeria

PYMNTS

From makeup to jewelry, mobile payments are all about accessorizing going into the fall season. In this roundup, Global Payments is providing Bluetooth technology and mobile payment capabilities to Mary Kay Sales consultants; iZettle, the U.K. Let’s check out mobile fashion week. Mary Kay has 3.5

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

Stax

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s.

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Giving Community Banks The Contactless Card Boost

PYMNTS

Contactless has yet to catch on in the United States, despite years of promotional efforts and the success of the payment method in the U.K., However, there may be an opportunity to get more contactless cards into the hands of consumers — an opportunity that involves community banks and is backed by financial incentives.

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Mastercard Expanding Scan-To-Pay QR Program

PYMNTS

Mastercard is expanding its QR-based programs to create greater choice in retail mobile payments. Once the QR code has been scanned, the online payment will be processed through the Mastercard network using M/Chip technology and the secure EMV infrastructure that retailers already have in place.

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