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Rambus at CES 2018: Running with Cybertrust’s Hamon

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Rambus and Cybertrust Corporation, a security services company based in Tokyo, will introduce a new user experience through the Rambus “CryptoManager™ IoT Security Service” and Cybertrust’s “Secure IoT Platform®” (SIOTP) for a wearable IoT total service “hamon®” provided by Mitsufuji Corporation. The hamon will be exhibited at Mitsufuji’s booth (Halls A-D, Booth 45637) during CES […]

Put your money where your mouth is: Financial institutions and mobile payments

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The adoption of digital wallets, according to a Goldman Sachs analyst, has been “underwhelming to date by nearly every objective standard.” While Apple Pay is the dominant digital wallet leader in the US, accounting for 90% of all contactless mobile payments, it is still struggling to gain real traction in the United States. According to […]

Blockchain: From eSports to CDC crisis response

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Blockchain and eSports Darren Heitner of Forbes reports that Eloplay – which helps players organize and participate in eSports tournaments – is piloting a new form of currency for its users. As Heitner notes, Eloplay’s new currency is a prime example of an eSports-related entity involving itself in blockchain. “[Eloplay is] leveraging smart contracts technology […]

Strategies for securing retail payment data

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The value of mobile wallets may be seen to provide a seamless and enhanced buying experience to consumers. But digital retail wallets are also a highly-effective means of improving payments security and mitigating risk.

Do contactless payment users prefer fingerprint sensors and voice recognition?

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A new survey conducted by Juniper Research has concluded that 40% of iOS users in the U.S. consider themselves unlikely to use facial recognition as a payment security technology. Instead, contactless payment users said they considered fingerprint sensors and voice recognition more appealing authentication methods – with 74% and 62% stating they are likely to […]

Minding the mobile self-checkout loss prevention gap

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Earlier this month, Forrester principal analyst Brendan Miller observed that the success of mobile self-checkout is contingent upon bridging the loss prevention gap. As Miller notes, consumer demands and expectations have created a new alternative to queuing at many retailers. For example, Starbucks’ Mobile Order and Pay program now accounts for 20% of peak transactions […]

What’s inside your mobile wallet?

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Rambus Payments CTO Chakib Bouda recently sat down with Pymnts.com to discuss the future of mobile wallets. According to Bouda, brick-and-mortar retailers are now seriously rethinking their approach to remaining competitive in the digital age as mobile and online eCommerce channels continue to consume a larger portion of consumer spend. “[Retailers are] seeing it not […]

Wanted: Seamless mobile payments

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Trip Chowdhry, managing director with Global Equities Research, tells George Avalos of The Mercury News that the digital wallet business has gotten off to a rough start. “There have been many false starts in this industry,” says Chowdhry. “The current payment methods are intrusive and they are not seamless.” Despite the growing pains and a continuously evolving […]

Mobile payments: Looking beyond Amazon Go

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Nick Ismail of the Information Age has penned an article about the future retail experience in the era of Amazon Go and beyond. As Ismail notes, Amazon Go heralds a new way of thinking for the retailer-customer relationship. Image Credit: Amazon  “Shopping won’t ever be the same again, thanks to the blend of digital, IoT […]

Mobey Forum Member Meeting at Rambus

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On March 21-23 2017, Rambus hosted the first Mobey Forum member meeting of the year in Rotterdam. Over 150 industry experts discussed the meeting’s topic ‘From Payments to a Buying Experience’ including subtopics such as disruption of wallets, IoT, blockchain, biometrics, AI.Host Card Emulation (HCE) technology is making it easier for banks to offer mobile […]

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