Mobile wallets are being introduced to the market in a steady stream of configurations from passive containers to dynamic payment products. Companies large and small are vying for a piece of a future market. Along the way, these emerging payment forms are reshaping traditional business models and impacting traditional acceptance brands.

In a new research report, Mobile Wallets: The Business and the Brand, Mercator Advisory Group applies a business model canvas approach to analyze examples of developing mobile wallet types based on first-person interviews with the leaders of these companies. In addition, this report breaks apart the impact of branding based on different mobile wallet structures to discuss the effect on traditional payment brands as well as the challenges new acceptance marks face in the market.

“There is no such thing as a benign product strategy in this superheated market. Even seemingly innocuous container products have to find their way to profitability and at some point, all roads will lead to being a component in the payment transaction value stream and as a result having some brand equity stake in the equation,” comments Patricia Hewitt, director of Mercator Advisory Group’s Debit Advisory Service and author of the report.

Major highlights of this report include:

– Categorization of mobile wallets based on a spectrum of usability

– Analysis of the widening gap between wallets designed for mainstream consumers and those designed for unbanked/underserved consumers
– Discussion and analysis of how revenue streams that rely heavily on advertising and licensing fees are shifting the market away from traditional fee income strategies

– The features most likely to signal the potential for a wallet to be successful in the market

Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

The Business of Payments
New Participants Building a New Model

The Branding of Payments
A Look at Digitizing Brands
The Functional Spectrum of Mobile Wallets

Digital Wallets in Market
Lemon (Card and Credential Container)
Paydiant (Mobile Wallet)
PreCash (Mobile Wallet)

By No Means the Conclusion
The Importance of Delivery Channels
The Brand Challenge

Companies Mentioned
– Apple
– FlipMoney
– Lemon Wallet
– MasterCard
– MasterPass
– PayPal
– Paydiant
– PreCash
– Starbucks
– V.me
– Visa

More information: Research & Markets Report – Mobile Wallets: The Business and Brand