Mobile phones have increasingly become tools that consumers use for banking, payments, budgeting, and shopping. Given the rapid pace of developments in the area of mobile finance, the Federal Reserve Board began conducting annual surveys of consumers’ use of mobile financial services in 2011. This 78-page report, “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services” (March, 2015) examines trends in the adoption and use of mobile banking, payments, and shopping behavior and how the emergence of mobile financial services affects consumers’ interaction with financial institutions.
REPORT: Global Mobile Payment Market 2015-2019
Mobile payment is a form of payment where an end-user can initiate a transaction using amobile device for goods and services through communication networks or technologies.Mobile payment allows consumers to use a mobile device to pay for goods and services instead of using cash, check, and credit/debit cards. It is also referred to as mobile money,mobile money transfer, and mobile wallet.
The report forecasts the global mobile payment market to grow at a CAGR of 36.26%, in terms of transaction volume, over the period 2014-2019. In terms of number of end-users, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.10% during the forecast period. [Read more…]
Mobile Online Payments: Disruption and Opportunity
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Mobile online payments, made either within a mobile application or through a mobile website, are changing commerce, and not just online. The worlds of online and physical commerce are blurring in parallel with the rapidly increasing utility of the consumer pocket computer—the smartphone.
Mobile online payments are at the cusp of a growth curve that could eventually subsume any other payment path, but the complexity in the space obscures the way forward.
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Global Mobile Payments to Reach 50 Billion Transactions in 2015
The mobile payment market worldwide continued rapid growth in 2014, according to a new report by Hamburg based secondary research company yStats.com. The publication, “Global Mobile Payment Methods” discloses that while competition in the mobile payments field has intensified worldwide, acceptance and usage of in-store mobile payments and the preferences of shoppers towards payment methods in remote M-Commerce differed from country to country. A general trend is the lingering concern of consumers towards security of mobile payment transactions.
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Samsung Pay Will be Huge Driver for Mobile Payment Adoption
According to a report by Business Insider, Samsung Pay will spur the growth of mobile payments because the company’s recent acquisition of LoopPay makes the new Samsung Pay service compatible with the existing base of payment terminals in the United States. [Read more…]
Mobile Proximity Payments Forecast 2015
A recent report by Mary Monahan, Javelin Strategies’ Executive Vice President and Research Director, Mobile, analyzes the U.S. mobile proximity payment market, covering payments made by consumers using a mobile device at a merchant’s physical location. Three years of actual historical data and a five-year forecast are provided. By 2019, it is projected that mobile proximity payments will total $54 billion.
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Report: Industry Perspectives on Mobile/Digital Wallets and Channel Convergence
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston[1] has released a report based on the recent Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup (MPIW) meeting to discuss (1) different wallet platforms; (2) how card networks and other payment service providers manage risks associated with converging digital and mobile channels; and (3) merchant strategies around building a mobile payment and shopping experience. [Read more…]
Consumers and Mobile Financial Services – Free Report
Mobile phones have increasingly become tools that consumers use for banking, payments, budgeting, and shopping. Given the rapid pace of developments in the area of mobile finance, the Federal Reserve Board began conducting annual surveys of consumers’ use of mobile financial services in 2011. This 78-page report, “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services” (March, 2015) examines trends in the adoption and use of mobile banking, payments, and shopping behavior and how the emergence of mobile financial services affects consumers’ interaction with financial institutions.
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Mobile Payments : Revenue Models and Market Strategies 2015
Mobile Payments: Revenue Models and Market Strategies,” a Thematic Research Report by Pyramid Research, examines the predominant service and revenue models in the mobile payments arena, as well as the market approach of selected players, in order to identify effective strategies and key success factors. The analysis is built upon in-depth case studies of selected mobile payments services around the world, including Alipay Wallet, Boku, Dwolla, LevelUp, RURU, Paym, Starbucks and Apple Pay.
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Mobile Money Crosses Borders: New Remittance Models in West Africa
A promising new model is emerging for cross-border remittances with mobile money as both the sending and the receiving channel.
This paper from GSMA draws commercial insights from two early examples in the West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU), where member states are socio-economically integrated and adoption of mobile money has been rapid in recent years. These factors make the region a natural starting point for this model. [Read more…]
Leveraging the Mobile Channel for ACH Payment Innovation White Paper
The Payments Innovation Alliance of NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association has released a white paper, entitled “Leveraging the Mobile Channel for ACH Payment Innovation.” The white paper provides an overview of the mobile payments landscape and focuses on the use of mobile devices for ACH transactions.
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