Digital Wallets

Tokenisation of card payments can simplify and secure financial transactions, services for merchants, consumers

Tokenisation is a process aimed at increasing the security and safety of payment systems by replacing the card details with a unique alternate payment ID or code termed as a ‘token'.

Why Abhijit Bose could be key to WhatsApp's ability to scale up payments biz in India

Bose has been evangelising the idea of how Ezetap could turn any mobile device into a PoS device.

WhatsApp Payments: Messaging app may turn heat on mobile wallet players, but game has shifted to value-added deals

What Facebook-controlled WhatsApp can do, however, is to possibly look deeper into your behaviour than other mobile wallet players like MobiKwik, PayTm etc

Paytm vs FreeCharge vs MobiKwik vs Google Tez vs others: Here's a look at the existing digital wallets ecosystem

If you are confused about this whole online payments revolution, here's a quick rundown of the features and capabilities of various popular services

Ola and ICICI Bank have signed an MoU to integrate offers for customers as well as driver partners

Through this alliance, both brands will bring together their respective technology platforms to offer Ola booking facility on ICICI Bank's mobile banking platforms

Flipkart-owned PhonePe digital wallet ties up with rival FreeCharge; lets customers link their existing wallets on both platforms

According to the deal terms, PhonePe has now enabled its over 45 million users to link their existing FreeCharge wallets to the PhonePe app

Bitcoin rises by 15 percent recouping from its worst loss since 2013

Bitcoin had risen around twentyfold since the start of the year, climbing from less than $1,000 to as high as $19,666

Cheque book ban now will be hastier than GST rollout; India is woefully ill-equipped for full digitisation

In a way, therefore, we will be killing the cheque at its infancy in rural areas where large swathes of India still is.

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant thinks that mobile wallets may replace credit and debit cards in few years

Mobile wallets and biometric modes of payments will replace debit and credit cards in the next three to four years, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said today.

Samsung Pay is here, the support for magnetic secure transmissions is a game-changer

The fact that Samsung Pay is now available in India isn't as big a deal as the fact that Samsung Pay supports MST.