Via Business Insider:
As the calendar speeds toward 2014 — surely the year that the phrase “mobile payments” becomes a household term (wink) — Mobile Payments Today is taking a moment to look back at the year that was.
To get a feel for the year, we asked a handful of industry insiders to weigh in on one simple question: What was the biggest mobile payments news story or trend in 2013?
Click the link to see more: Looking back at mobile payments in 2013 | MobilePaymentsToday.com
A glimpse at the future of financial transactions? Eschatology followers will certainly watch this closely as they call to mind this prediction: “And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Revelation 13:16-17).