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Mobile payments deal between Visa and Monitise is formed

03/11/201303/09/2013 Jesse Collins

The new agreement for more than $59 million is meant to help extend smartphone money in Europe. Visa is now predicting that by the year 2020, over half of the transactions that are made by consumers in Europe will be done through mobile payments, so it is continuing to invest in this channel so that it will remain at the heart of this type of transaction. This is only one of several deals that Visa is currently making to stay central to this industry. The mobile payments partnership between Visa…

M-commerce deal reached between Spindle and PayLeap

02/09/201302/07/2013 L. Green

A partnership has formed in order to make a bigger splash in the overall marketplace. Acculynk’s payment processing solution and gateway, PayLeap, has just formed a strategic partnership with Spindle Inc, in order to be able to take a bigger bite out of the m-commerce market, together. They have said that they will be able to progress more effectively together than would be possible individually. The companies have announced their intentions to integrate each of their platforms in order to become better capable of serving the m-commerce marketplace than would…

Mobile payments offerings for unbanked demographic established by Mozido

01/11/201304/13/2014 John Montgallo

The acquisition of PagoVision is expected to solidify the company’s services and solutions. Mozido LLC has announced that it has just made the acquisition of a check cashing and transaction services company called PagoVision, which specializes in its offerings for unbanked customers, which will allow the company to expand its mobile payments services. This will also allow Mozido to strengthen its own links to the unbanked marketplace. Mozido was not new to the industry, as it had already been offering a cloud based mobile payments platform in addition to a…

Mobile payments partnership formed between Smartlink and Tagit

01/03/201304/13/2014 Sam Lambert

These two companies have joined together for a Vietnamese smartphone banking service. Tagit, a smartphone banking provider based in Singapore, has just announced that it has entered into a partnership for mobile payments with Smartlink, a payment switch operator from Vietnam. This new offering is geared toward allowing bank with a membership to offer smartphone services. According to the Tagit president and head of business development, Navtej Singh, “This is an important milestone for Tagit as we introduce our aggregated service, which will expand the user base on Tagit’s mobile…

Mcommerce steps up yet again with Swedish PayPal partnership

12/18/201212/18/2012 Jesse Collins

The new deal with the WRapp gifting app brings mobile payments up a level in Sweden. PayPal has announced that it has entered into a new partnership with Wrapp, which will give them the opportunity to test a social gifting service as a way to draw new Swedish users. Wrapp is a service that allows friends to give, receive, and use mobile gift cards. This mcommerce app also allows friends to work together to build a combined gift from several people to give to one recipient. The application works through…