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For proof of the rising interaction between consumers and their mobile devices, look no further than Citi’s wildly popular ThankYou Rewards program. In 2016, approximately 25 percent of [...]

If you’ve kept pace with the commentary I’ve written on this site over the last four years, you’ll know that I’ve become somewhat pessimistic about a couple of key topics [...]

Amazon Go once again captured headlines a couple of weeks ago on a rumor that the e-commerce king is preparing to build more Go stores in Seattle and one in Los Angeles. While the company [...]

Mobile person-to-person apps and systems at the moment are probably at the height of their popularity. Zelle, which is backed by major banks in the U.S. and run by Early Warning Services, is [...]

Target Monday officially became the latest big-box retailer to add an in-store, mobile-payment feature to its app in a move that also combines the company’s digital coupon program into a [...]

While consumers have benefited from innovation in digital payments, business-to-business e-commerce still relies on outdated systems. And that’s a $6.7 trillion opportunity ready to be [...]

The payments industry needs a better barometer for how it measures success with mobile payments in the U.S. because the definition of what is and isn’t working has changed over the years. [...]

About a year ago, Citi introduced itself into the mobile wallet discussion when it debuted an Android app called Citi Pay. At the time, Citi's decision to launch Citi Pay continued a debate about [...]

This past summer was a quiet one for the payments industry. How quiet, you ask? Consider this: in the weeks after Mobile Payments Today asked companies to supply information for last year’s [...]

From left to right, Prakash Karamchandani (Balance Grill), Laura Reese (Church’s Chicken) and Jordan Campbell (la Madeleine Country French Café) listen to a question from Jim Steinberg [...]