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Allied Wallet Ltd.
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Website: alliedwallet.com
Year founded: 2002
Alpha Card Services
Headquarters: Huntingdon Valley, PA
Website: alphacardservices.com
Year founded: 2000
American Express
CB
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: serve.com
Year founded: 1850
AnywhereCommerce
Headquarters: Montreal, QC, Canada
Website: anywherecommerce.com
Year founded: 2006
appMobi
Headquarters: Lancaster, PA
Website: appmobi.com
Year founded: 2006
Allied Wallet seeks to simplify global payment processing for
merchants and consumers alike. In pursuit of this goal, the Londonbased
company is developing a suite of payment products for different
types of merchants. These products will include a tokenized payment
solution for mobile application developers and an update to its
E-Wallet mobile application.
Allied Wallet has a robust team of resellers and sales representatives
that promote its products alongside its marketing department with
the aid of its website.
Alpha Card Services offers merchants—especially those in the
restaurant and retail space—the mobility, security, and convenience of
accepting credit cards through most smartphones and mobile devices,
including Android, iPhone, and iPad. The company’s solution can turn a
merchant’s smartphone into a mobile processing terminal in a matter
of minutes thanks to a free placement reader and downloadable
software app.
Alpha Card Services sells its mobile payment solution through ISOs
and various alliance partners.
Released last year, American Express’ Serve is a digital platform that
lets consumers make purchases and payments both online via mobile
phones and, using the Serve prepaid card, anywhere American
Express is accepted. Serve offers multiple payment options including
P2P, mobile, traditional swipe and online transactions, and the Serve
Facebook app, all under a single account.
Serve is marketed directly to consumers and merchants as well as
through partnerships for Serve integration.
AnywhereCommerce is a global m-commerce payments technology,
engineering, and solutions provider with patented and proprietary
suites of hardware, software, and gateway solutions for secure mobile,
card-present credit card, PIN debit, Chip and PIN, EMV, and NFC
transactions. Its universal aCommerce platform—designed for iOS,
Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile—provides white label and
customized application services. Also, its PCI- and EMV-approved
devices and bank-grade, secure end–to-end ecosystem provide
greater security, reliability, convenience, and return on investment for
consumers, merchants, networks, issuers, and acquirers.
The aCommerce platform is sold to processors, acquirers, and payment
service providers via distributors, ISOs, OEMs, and VARs.
appMobi’s 1Touch payment technology enables “single touch” in-app
purchases through a highly secure mobile wallet on the device and
a few lines of HTML code. Developers add appMobi’s 1Touch to their
app to give their users a frictionless way to purchase app content,
subscriptions, merchandise, and more.
1Touch is one of many Cloud services appMobi offers directly to
mobile and HTML5 developers to help them maximize and monetize
their apps.
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carrier
CB
carrier billing
loyalty and rewards
mobile acceptance
mobile payments
mobile wallets
P2P payments
POS hardware/handsets
prepaid
promotions and offers
software
14 October 2012 | Transaction trends