Inside Secure HCE payment platform achieves full certification by both MasterCard and Visa URPay brings faster time-to-market, greater flexibility and trust to issuer banks for mobile financial transactions Aix-en-Provence, March 9th, 2017 – Inside Secure (Euronext: INSD), at the heart of security solutions for mobile and connected devices, is the first provider of host card…
By Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director, Mobey Forum As Apple and the other handset giants turn their attention to financial services through the launch of their various ‘Pay’ solutions, will banks face a similar fate to that of the music industry, which Apple revolutionized with the iPod and iTunes? Are their business models under the same…
By Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director of Mobey Forum What a difference twelve months can make. Industry conversations at last year’s Mobey Day, (Mobey Forum’s annual open conference for all mobile money stakeholders) told of an industry undergoing major disruption. At this year’s event in October, the industry vibe had changed almost beyond recognition, particularly in…
Given the degree of ‘cool’ with which Apple endows nearly all it does, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago, NFC based mobile payments were viewed as a missed opportunity, strangled at birth by the inability of banks and MNOs to agree business terms. Now, thanks to HCE and to Apple Pay,…