Bank of America announced this week that it is piloting Visa's V.me digital wallet service with its online customers, firing up the ever-hot topic of digital wallets in the banking sector. Here are some recent quotes on the evolving digital wallets market that we selected to share.
November 30, 2012
The E-Commerce Path
By some estimates, 70% or more of all e-commerce transactions are abandoned at checkout, valued at roughly $18 billion a year. There are many reasons for this ... But no one likes the 16-digit hunt-and-peck. No one. Which is why the onramp for digital wallets is likely to come, not in the form of mobile transactions in cafes and gas stations, but rather, online, because, ironically enough, that's where the friction is.
— Tech writer Jeffrey O'Brien in a recent Mashable.com article sponsored by V.me, Visa's digital wallet.
Source: Mashable.com
