Mobile payments are on the rise in Latin America. Source: mashable.com

The ‘Mobile Commerce Playbook’ is a 12-week series from PSFK and Braintree exploring the key trends that are defining the future of mobile commerce. Source: http://www.psfk.com

For mobile commerce technologies to really hit the masses, they need to be deployed where the masses are. For example, beacons in a store, or even 100 stores, have little chance of touching mostmobile consumers. Source: http://www.mediapost.com

This 61-page document that details the capabilities of 151 leading mobile wallets. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Etihad Airways aircraft parked at Abu Dhabi airport. Image via Abu Dhabi International Airport’s press office. Abu Dhabi International Airport has streamlined its popular United States Customs and … Source: blog.apex.aero

By 2020, all smart mobile devices will include embedded biometric sensors as standard, according to research conducted by Acuity Market Intelligence Source: http://www.nfcworld.com

Can you answer this? Biometrics: false rejection rate vs Hamming distance in iris scan http://t.co/DgYnr1NYZy #biometrics Source: security.stackexchange.com

The company’s Face Match feature compares the customer’s live face against a photo ID to produce a ‘likelihood-of-match’ score. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

In a story last week, PYMNTS reported that Chinese merchants were cooling to PayPal after the U.S. based payments company froze or, in some cases, deducted funds from local accounts in response to an order from a U.S. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

By Larry Cao, CFAAfter much talk post-global financial crisis that emerging markets have emerged, the so-called emerging markets “taper tantrum” in 2013–2014 seems to have completely changed that… Source: cfainstitute.tumblr.com