New Service Aims to Transform Mobile
Payments Industry Apple today announced that customers can start making payments...
Not exact matches
We recently had an opportunity to sit down with Charles Drucker, Vantiv's CEO, Daniela Mielke, chief strategy and product officer, and Matt Taylor, group president of integrated
payments and emerging channels, to discuss some of the biggest trends affecting processors and the
payments industry as a whole, including
Apple Pay, EMV, mobile point - of - sale, and Vantiv's growth strategy.
In the
payment industry right now, we have traditional competitors, but we also have new competitors like
Apple, PayPal and Google.
Apple described it as a «patent troll with no active business other than patent litigation», which had previously demanded
payment from «everyone from truckers and farmers to roofers and dairies...
Apple invents products that revolutionise
industries, and relies upon the US patent system to protect our innovation.»
Many new players are likely to enter the
payment industry and those can be online
payments providers, virtual marketplaces and large technology and social media companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Amazon, and
Apple, etc..
Added to that is the threat of «disrupters» to the financial
industry such as mobile
payment and digital wallet services such as
Apple Pay — which is taking bites out of bits and pieces of the more lucrative areas of traditional banking business.
Although the integration of the bitcoin
payment processor allowed the consumer electronics giant to garner interest from the bitcoin
industry, Circle will inevitably become a serious competitor to
Apple's built - in
payment application
Apple Pay.
Apple joins a host of other services including Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and Google Wallet in the peer - to - peer
payment industry.
Industry sources say
Apple believes its iPhone
payments system will be at least as secure as traditional
payment cards.
But Crone, a digital
payment industry expert, argued that
Apple may find good reason to swallow those charges.
There are some whispers within the
industry that
Apple wants to set up the iPad Pro as an
Apple Pay terminal: not to make
payments but to receive them (from the iPhone and the
Apple Watch).
It's unclear if
Apple will be able to jumpstart the stagnant mobile
payments industry although having another major player onboard can't hurt its chances.
To help push that
industry forward, and especially the new
Apple Pay, North American Bancard had announced a new PayAnywhere accessory that turns any iOS device into a terminal that supports
Apple Pay and other
payment methods, both wireless and physical.