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Visa and FNBO partner to offer customers a better mobile wallet

09/05/202309/04/2023 Sam Lambert

First National Bank of Omaha and Visa have teamed up to create a digital payment experience customers will like. First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) and Visa have announced a new collaboration for the purpose of offering customers an improved mobile wallet experience. They announced that it offers instant account credential delivery to the user’s digital account. What makes this mobile wallet experience different is that it doesn’t require users to have to download an app. They will receive instant account credential delivery without needing to add anything to their…

Consumers love paying bills with mobile wallets, but fees could block growth

08/24/202308/23/2023 L. Green

Half of consumers say they wouldn’t use this feature if it came with an added cost attached to it. All age demographics are using their mobile wallets to an increasing degree for the purpose of bill payments. Consumers enjoy the convenience of being able to pay their bills whenever and wherever they want. There is certainly an advantage to using mobile wallets when compared to now outdated methods of paying bill such as writing a paper check and mailing it or heading to the bank or institution to make a…

Mobile wallets see a decline in top-ups in some regions

08/14/202308/10/2023 Jennifer Goula

As popular as these digital payment methods have become, they are declining in the Bahamas. In the Bahamas, the use of mobile wallets has become commonplace, but over the first five months of the year, a declining trend was recorded in top-ups. The decline wasn’t a slight one, it was practically a freefall in the amount of money topped up. During the first five months of 2022, top ups to mobile wallets reached $38.4 million. During the same period in 2023, that figure reached only $7.1 million, a fraction of…

Apple Pay snags 48 percent of mobile wallet use

08/22/202208/19/2022 Jorge Gonzalez

Even with this massive share, its use represents only a tiny fraction of total retail payments. Mobile wallet use is beginning to take off, and Apple Pay is leading the way with a considerable market share. That said, even with such a high position among transactions made via smartphone, it barely represents a sliver of total in-store payments. The use of these payment apps for in-store commerce is rising but is barely there next to cash and cards. The new PYMNTS report titled “Mobile Wallets Adoption: Apple Pay @8 –…