After being acquired by Google, mobile payments firm Softcard is closing down. Source: http://www.zdnet.com

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has eliminated a controversial and secretive program that arbitrarily singled out and delayed the issuance of certain pa… Source: http://www.corpcounsel.com

Google’s Sundar Pichai talked about Android Pay, an API that can support multiple payment services. Source: http://www.tomshardware.com

NFC chipmaker NXP Semiconductors said it expects mobile wallets to be in half of new smartphones by the start of 2016 — and China will be the leading market, Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Gemalto and Tapit have teamed up to enable consumers to leverage NFC technology to make ‘frictionless’ payments on their mobile phones, and have their transactions billed to their mobile phone. Source: http://www.zdnet.com

Kaushik Roy, the senior vice president of product at Sequent, discusses how dynamic issuance and on-device security and management can work in tandem with tokenization on smartphones. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Rob Stringer, the vice president of marketing and product development for Cortex MCP, shares his thoughts on what we’ve seen the past couple of weeks in the industry. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Wal-Mart Stores believes mobile payments—such as Apple Pay—are the future for its shoppers who now primarily use cash and debit cards. Source: http://www.wsj.com

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EMV has long been a traditional, predictable technology. We know what the components are, we know who the vendors are, and we know what software to implement, Source: http://www.pymnts.com