Norway’s Vipps and Finland’s ePassi have adopted Alipay’s QR Code standard to enable interoperability for the four million users of their mobile wallets. Under the agreement, consumers will be able to use their home app to scan the QR code of the partner scheme from 2019. Merchant partners will also benefit when they are able…
HSBC UK is wading in to the robo advice market, launching an online advisory service that will deliver tailor-made recommendations based on an individual’s unique financial circumstances and needs HSBC UK customers with a minimum of £1,000 to invest are eligible to use the ‘My Investment’ service, simply by logging on via a desktop, laptop,…
Mastercard and Microsoft are joining forces to tackle the messy business of digital identity verification, vowing to kill off passwords and give people a secure, instant way to verify themselves online with whomever they want, whenever they want. To verify their identity online, people are still usually dependent on physical or digital proof managed by…
A Report from Mobey Forum’s Virtual Currencies Expert Group Co-chaired by: Hans Henrik Hoffmeyer, Co-founder, Coinify (Former Senior Vice President, Nets Group) Peter Stephens, CIO, DrumG Technologies (Former Head of Blockchain and UK Group Innovation, UBS) Editor: Paul Rogers, iseepr Virtual currencies have been ‘on the list’ of banks for some years, yet few have taken…