Apple is the mobile-payments elephant in the roomMarketWatchMobile payments is a growing market that has drawn major competitors led by eBay, which owns PayPal, Google and Amazon.com. Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

Apple’s Mobile Wallet May Not Pay Off for a WhileMashableThe rumors of Apple’s plans to embrace mobile payments are nearly as old as the iPhone itself. Source: mashable.com

GeekWire Nordstrom may partner with Apple for mobile payments GeekWire Apple will almost certainly get a cut of any sales made using the mobile payment system, while Nordstrom and other participating retailers could see a boost from iPhone users… Source:…

Thanks to the continued proliferation of smartphones and strong authentication technology, mobility and biometrics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Source: findbiometrics.com

Enterprise architecture needs ID and access management Federal Times “By using CAC cards, DoD is able to force two-factor authentication with a hard-coded identity certificate bound to the card and a PIN known only to the soldier or sailor.” Miles……

IDology Presents How the Bleeding Edge of Technology Enables Advances in … Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

Stock Picks For An Emerging Markets Selloff Barron’s (blog) So writes Markus Rosgen at Citi, who adds that a selloff is less likely given low equity valuations: The MSCI Emerging Markets Index (and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM))…

DIARY -Emerging Markets Economic Events to Sept 12Reuters UK3 (Reuters) – For other related diaries, please double-click on: for emerging market economic indicator release dates and forecasts. for a diary of top economic events. Source: uk.reuters.com

Emerging-Market Distressed Bonds Have Worst Month in YearBloombergEmerging-market distressed debt had its worst month in more than a year in August amid banking turmoil in South Africa and Turkey, a coal-industry rout and the conflict in Ukraine. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

The global market for biometric technologies is estimated to be $8.7 billion in 2013. In 2014, the forecasted revenues will likely reach almost $11.2 billion and $27.5 billion by 2019, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.8%. Source: http://www.prnewswire.com