American Express mobile payments Archives

Mobile payments tokenization standard sought by credit card giants

10/04/201310/01/2013 Jesse Collins

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Visa, MasterCard, and American Express have announced their new proposed framework. The three credit card giants, Visa, MasterCard and American Express have unveiled a newly proposed framework for a global standard that would boost digital and mobile payments security, and that would simplify the experience of completing a transaction while shopping over a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other connected device. The lack of a standard of this nature has been considered a considerable barrier to m-commerce. By developing a global standard, it will make it possible for a whole new…

Mobile payments partnership between Amex and Walmart

10/11/2012 Jennifer Goula

The agreement will operate through a unique prepaid card. American Express Co. and Walmart Stores Inc. have announced a new partnership that they hope will provide customers with appealing new options for making mobile payments at the retailer’s stores. This prepaid Bluebird card is designed to appeal to consumers without traditional bank accounts. The Bluebird card functions by allowing deposits to be made through smartphone and mobile bill paying, without any annual, monthly, or overdraft fees, nor any required minimum balance. They hope that this will broaden the mobile payments…

Google Wallet draws interest but no decisions from Amex

08/07/201208/06/2012 Julie Campbell

American Express has yet to commit itself to any agreements. As of August 1, 2012, Google Wallet had already announced that it has solidified an agreement with American Express, but it may not have been entirely truthful. Nothing is official quite yet between Amex and the mobile payment program. In the Google Wallet blog, on the first of the month, it was suggested that there was a relationship between itself and American Express that was much more solid than the actual truth. It indicated that its app “supports all credit…

American express encourages mobile commerce through consumer data for brands

05/31/2012 Jennifer Goula

AMEX plans to offer its “spend graph” database information to help companies customize their mcommerce American Express group president, Dan Schulman spoke in London at the Open Mobile Summit, and stated that the credit card giant is moving in the direction of the development of a mobile commerce ID that can be used by consumers, to provide a total of their totals as well as the brands to which they have the greatest loyalties. AMEX partner brands could use this information for better targeting of smartphone consumers. This will help…

American Express cardholders to use Isis Mobile Wallet

05/11/201205/11/2012 Jennifer Goula

U.S. Consumer OPEN Serve and Small Business cards are now available in the mobile payment joint venture. American Express has announced that its mobile wallet joint venture with T-Mobile USA, AT&T Mobility, and Verizon Wireless, called Isis, has now entered into an agreement that will allow the U.S. Consumer, OPEN Serve and Small Business Cards to be available. The cardholders of American Express products will be able to use their NFC smartphones this year. It will begin with the first cities of Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah, which…