After trying for years to replicate the success of its QR code-enabled payments solution overseas, Ant Group seems to have finally found a path to scaling. Instead of going after end users, the Alibab
While we are going to have to wait a little longer for Apple to launch payments in iMessage, this weekend, Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s VP of Apple Pay, announced a series of other milestones for th
On the heels of large investments made in Flipkart and Snapdeal, another e-commerce juggernaut in India is closing in on an outsized round of funding to tap into India’s fast-growing, smartpho
Google is continuing the expansion of Android Pay in Asia Pacific after the mobile payments service went live in Australia today, its most significant launch in the region to date.
Apple Pay may only be available in a handful of countries right now, but the iPhone maker is working hard to extend the footprint of its digital payment services into new parts of the world.
The increase of smartphone ownership in India is fueling the rise of mobile wallets in India. One company leading the charge, MobiKwik, has topped up its own funds with a $50 million Series C round an
Isis, the mobile wallet platform backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is rebranding. "In a few weeks, Isis Wallet will become Softcard. It's a different name for the same great way to pay," the c
<a target="_blank" href="http://lemon.com/">Lemon</a>, a digital wallet platform which allows users to store their ID, payment, loyalty cards and more on their smartphone, has been acquired by identit
Ayannah, a gift-remittance startup in the Philippines, just received $1 million in its first angel round. The company’s service is called Sendah, and allows Filipinos working overseas to pay for
Although you can't ditch your leather-bound billfold yet, a startup called <a target="_blank" href="http://lemon.com/">Lemon</a> has been slowly building up a mobile wallet platform that's encroac
<a target="_blank" href="https://walletkit.com/">WalletKit</a>, a 500 Startups-backed platform allowing businesses to create passes for mobile wallets like Apple Passbook, is today making its public d
As the digital wallet battle rages on here in the U.S., with Google Wallet, Amex's Serve, MasterCard's PayPass, Square, PayPal, carrier-backed Isis, and others all wrangling for a piece of the action,
Vodafone Group is partnering with m-commerce company CorFire to bring NFC-powered mobile wallet capabilities to its smartphone users next year. CorFire said it would be "providing mobile wallet capabi
<a target="_blank" href="http://lemon.com/">Lemon</a>, the makers of a mobile wallet application for iPhone and Android, is today launching its developer platform, cleverly called "Lemonade." The "ADE
Not that it should come as a big surprise, given that Target was one of the brands showcased in the Passbook demo <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/13/apples-passbook-could-be-a-platform-not-jus
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/wallet/">Google Wallet</a>, the company's NFC-based virtual wallet for Android, got a major update <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/google-wall
I have to admit, when I first heard about the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1404403369/geode-from-icache?ref=live">Kickstarter project</a> for the <a target="_blank" hre
At this week's WWDC, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/11/apple-ios-passbook/">Apple introduced a new application called "Passbook,"</a> meant to function as an organizer for all your passes. It
Apple's Siri has been transforming how people interact with their phones. It taught us that it's not just OK to talk to our phones, but that, in many cases, it's actually a more useful way to get thin
This week, two of the major players in the credit card industry, Visa and MasterCard launched their online digital wallet services. Known as V.me (Visa's) and PayPass Wallet Services (MasterCard), bot
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