Wallets Everywhere

It looks like there are a few dozens of mobile wallets. But is the customer that is gonna benefit from that? Or it is just a way to follow today fasion?

Card Vendor perspective

• Giesecke and Devrient
• Oberthur Technologies (at yahoo)
• Gemalto
• Safran - Morpho

Third parties

• Google
• PayPal (wired)
• Wallmart MCX (cnn)
• Square at Starbucks (cnn)

Operators joint ventures

• ISIS JV(T-Mobile US, AT&T and Verizon)
• Oscar (wired) JV(Vodafone, Deutche Telekom, Telefonica, Orange - France Telekom), more

Mobile network operators directly

• Vodafone (tech crunch)
• Telefonica (total telle)
• Telecom Italia (NFC Times)
• Orange / France Telecom
• Deutche Telekom (gigacom), T-Mobile PL (nfctimes)

In the news and related

• Morpho aquires Cassis (nfc world)
• Transport for wallet (OSPT)
• NXP Desfire (monopoly in transport? EC on monopoly)
• EMV for transit