Highlights of the report include:
- Analysis of the U.S. mobile-wallet market and categorization of products into three basic wallet categories
- Characteristics of the common point-of-sale technologies, how merchants access wallet credentials and the way wallet transactions are settled
- Examination of wallets using different technologies to support payments at the point of sale, online and for person-to-person funds transfers
- Comparison of storage and management wallets as well as mobile banking and payments platforms Discussion of mobile banking platforms and the role they will play in mobile payments.
This report is 27 pages long with 13 exhibits.
Companies mentioned in the report include: ACI Worldwide, Amazon Inc., American Express Co., Apple Inc., Apriva LLC, AT&T, Atos Worldline, Attido Mobile Ltd., ATX Innovations, Bango Inc., Barclaycard, BarTab Inc., Belly Inc., Best Buy/BBY Solutions Inc., Blackhawk Network, Boku Inc., Braintree Payment Solutions LLC, Burger King Corp., CashStar Inc., CellFire Inc., Certify LLC, Clutch Holdings LLC, Coop Financial Services, Corefire/SK C&C USA Inc., Cumberland Farms, DeviceFidelity Inc., Discover Financial Services, Dunkin Donuts, Dwolla Inc., eBay Inc., Fandango, Fifth Third Bancorp, Firethorn Mobile Inc., Fiserv Inc., Fortumo Ltd., FreedomPay, Giftango Corp., Google Inc., Green Dot Corp., GrubHub Inc., Hailo Network Ltd., iCache Inc., Intuit Inc., Ingenico, Isis/JVL Ventures LLC, Kinetic Farm Inc., Lake Trust Credit Union, Lemon Inc., LevelUp/SCVNGER, Live Nation Worldwide Inc., MasterCard Inc., mFino Inc., mFoundry/FIS, MCX, Microsoft Corp., Monitise PLC, mopay Inc./MindMatics AG, Mozido Inc., mShift Inc., National Payment Card Association, NCR Corp., Oberthur Technologies, Parkmobile USA Inc., Pango Shyyny USA LLC, Paperlinks Inc., Payair US LLC, PayByPhone Inc., Paycloud Ltd., Paydiant Inc., Paydragon, PayOne, PayPal Inc., PreCash Inc., Proxama Ltd., PXT Payments, QuickPay Corp., Research In Motion Ltd., RideCell Inc., RideCharge Inc., SafetyPay Inc., Salt Technology Inc., Samsung, Sears Holdings Management Corp., Shazam Inc., ShopKick Inc., ShopSavvy Inc., Sionic Mobile, Spindle Inc., Sprint, Square Inc., Starbucks Inc., Target Corp., Text2Pay Inc., TMG Financial Services, T-Mobile, Tyfone Inc., Verizon, Uber Technologies Inc., VeriFone Systems Inc. and Visa Inc.
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