OEM Pay vs. Issuer Pay
OEM Pay vs. Issuer Pay With the introduction of mobile payments, a brand new market has opened up to OEM pay. The OEMs revolution of in-app and App Store payments, of which the next logical stepping stone has been contactless payments. This has…
Introduction to PSD2 – part two
Transactions without the traditional players In our previous blog post, we looked into PSD2, what it is and how it might affect banks’ business. This post takes a look at one of the key parts of PSD2: XS2A. What is XS2A? Access to Account (XS2A)…
MeaWallet and Latvian Investment and Development Agency
MeaWallet has signed an agreement with Latvian Investment and Development Agency for participating in a support funding programme related to business development, expansion and international export of products and services. The cooperation allows…
Introduction to PSD2 – part one
PSD2 - what is it, and what will change? PSD2 has been on “everyone’s” tongue in the banking industry the last year or two. A follow-up from the first Payment Services Directive, it aims to change the way retail banking is performed in the EEA. The…
Solving the challenges with mobile NFC Payments – Part 2
As discussed in Part 1 of this blog post, mobile NFC payments have some challenges. This post will look at how wearable payments work and how they can meet these challenges. Enter wearables In October 2015, Mastercard and NXP announced something…
How Does HCE Address the EMV Goals?
Before following up the last post about wearable payments, we serve you a guest post. This post will look into the HCE technology and how it relates to the EMV security standard. Written by Christian Maas at Mea's business partner ti&m, the…
Wearable payments – hype or the future?
Solving the challenges with mobile NFC Payments – Part 1 The history of contactless payments Payments using NFC is nothing new - it is something we have been talking about since 2003/2004. NFC is often referred to as The radio frequency standard…
Tokenization vs. Digitization – What is the difference?
Tokenization vs. Digitization Tokenization and digitization are two central elements in mobile payments which are easily mixed when talking about them. Many are confused about their meaning and therefore use them interchangeably. Let us have a look…
Money 20/20 Europe
Money 20/20 - Our thoughts on Europe's biggest FinTech Conference We’ve reached June, and this is the month of the biggest FinTech event in Europe: Money20/20 Europe. As the interest in FinTech has increased (watch trend below), so has the number of…