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Global mobile payment market to hit $620bn in 2016
Consumers across the globe will use their mobile phones to spend a total of US$620bn on all forms of mobile transaction this year, representing a 37.8% year-on-year growth from $450bn in 2015, research from TrendForce reveals. By 2017, total mobile payment revenue will reach $780bn, climbing to $930bn in 2018 and $1.08tn in 2019. More
Facebook may soon support Apple Pay
Facebook is open to partnering with Apple Pay and other payment services in order to enable payments on its social media network, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed... More
Cook reports strong growth in Apple Pay usage
Apple Pay saw a “significant acceleration in usage” in the second half of 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported during the company’s first quarter earnings call, with a growth rate 10 times higher than in the first half of the year... More
Barclays to support Apple Pay within “60 to 75 days”
Barclays will add support for Apple Pay “within the next 60 to 75 days”, the bank’s Ashok Vaswani has revealed in an email to a customer... More
Apple Pay adds 51 US banks
Apple has added another 51 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Apple Pay leads US mobile payments market
Apple Pay is “overwhelmingly the share leader” in point-of-sale mobile payments across the US despite uptake remaining relatively low, the latest statistics from Piper Jaffray’s Apple Pay adoption tracker show... More
Nebraska’s Union Bank & Trust to launch HCE mobile payments
Customers of Union Bank & Trust (UBT) in Nebraska, USA will soon be able to make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments via a mobile app that uses a solution from digital payments provider Prairie Cloudware... More
Canada’s BMO to support Apple Pay?
Canadian bank BMO is “actively evaluating Apple Pay as a mobile payment option” for its customers, an email seen by iPhone In Canada reveals... More
Nine in ten US Apple Pay users have made an in-store mobile payment
More than nine in ten users of Apple Pay in the US (91%) have now made an in-store payment using a credit card stored on their mobile device and two thirds (67%) have made an in-app transaction, a survey by Phoenix Marketing International has found... More
Apple Pay adds almost 60 more US banks
Apple has added 58 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Samsung Pay to launch in China with China UnionPay
Samsung has partnered with China UnionPay to bring its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China in early 2016. The announcement comes as Apple reveals that it has also partnered with the bank card organisation to bring Apple Pay to Chinese consumers next year. More
Apple Pay to go live in China in early 2016
Apple Pay will launch in China in early 2016 through a partnership with bank card association China UnionPay and with support from 15 of the country’s banks... More
Apple Pay adds 66 US banks
Apple has added another 66 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Apple Pay yet to sign up key Australian banks
Apple is struggling to persuade Australia’s big banks to sign up for Apple Pay, according to Reuters... More
Analyst details new iPhone with NFC and Apple Pay
A research note by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that Apple will release a new iPhone equipped with NFC and Apple Pay early next year... More
Apple adds 40 US banks to Apple Pay
Apple has added another 40 banks to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US, bringing the total close to 800... More
Apple Pay transactions decline on Black Friday
Only 2.7% of US shoppers with Apple Pay used the service on Black Friday to make a purchase in a store equipped to accept the mobile payment technology — representing a decrease from 4.9% last year, research from InfoScout reveals. Just 2% of Android owners used their device to make a mobile payment for eligible transactions during the day. More
JCPenney piloting store cards on Apple Pay
Customers of US department store chain JCPenney in Texas are piloting the ability to add their store cards to Apple Pay for in-store use... More