Bell and CIBC partner for mobile credit card payments MobileSyrup.com Bell and CIBC announced today that the carrier’s NFC-capable smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry Q10, are now able to make small credit card purchases on…

PYMNTS.com Creating The Omnicommerce Consumer PYMNTS.com Without being heavily incentivized to make the switch to mobile, many consumers have yet to see a real value in leaving their leather wallets and cards at home.

NEC targets retail market with NFC and face recognition solution Infotech Lead In a statement NEC said NFC technology enables users to conduct secure, contactless payments and transactions with their NFC-enabled mobile phones instead of using cash…

Samsung’s biometrics supplier is developing a slim area-based sensor Android Authority CrucialTec is not just moving over to a new algorithm though, the company is also planning to produce new ultra-slim embedded biometric modules, which will…

Biometrics market expected to exceed $23B by 2019 Biometric Update The global biometrics technology market is projected to reach a value of $23.3 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 20.8% from 2013 to 2019, according to a report published by Transparency…

5.5 billion users of mobile and wearable biometrics by 2019: Goode Intelligence Biometric Update In its latest analyst report, Goode Intelligence forecasted that by 2019 there will be 5.5 billion users of mobile and wearable biometric technology…

Should You Use a Password Manager? Tom’s Guide Morris Tabush, who runs his own IT consultancy, Tabush Group, in New York, also noted the vulnerabilities inherent in having an online identity protected only by passwords.

ThinkAdvisor ‘Wall of Liquidity’ Headed to Emerging Markets Wall Street Journal (blog) The fear that emerging markets will lack liquidity has been overstated, partly because the “wall of liquidity” beginning to come out of Japan has been ignored by…

ETF Trends Five Reasons to Change Your Outlook on Emerging Markets TheStreet.com NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It’s been a bumpy ride for emerging market investors.

TechCrunch With $25M Backing, Saltside Wants To Be The Craigslist For Emerging Markets TechCrunch The long road to making markets work starts with marketplaces.