He expects to initial launch payments capabilities outside of the U.S. in 2012.
On the crypto-side, there were several 2018 ICOs, including remittance startup SurRemit's $7 million token launch, payments venture Wala's $1 million offering and one by South African solar energy startup Sun Exchange.
Seesmic plans on launching payment options next year, but for the moment all plugins are free.
On the face of it this sounds very much like HeyZap's recently launched payment platform.
The company launched payment features — Truecaller Pay lets you pay other Truecaller users as well as pay your bills.
But then he launched payment company Square, which has become a key new way for all sorts of small businesses to take credit card payments.
Newly launched payment system MoonClerk wants to change that, by making it easy for non-programmers to quickly accept and mange both recurring and one-time payments on their own websites.
It requires a few more steps than Apple Pay, which automatically launches payment and chooses your default card when you're in proximity of an active terminal, meaning the fingerprint authentication is the only step required by a user.
It plans to launch the payment feature in all 4,500-plus 4,500-plusin the first half of next year.
The operators have realised that mobile payments are not a source of competitive advantage, and that they will all benefit from a single standard, says Duncan Brown of Ovum, a consultancy.Tim Jones, the MPSA's chief executive, says the association will launch two payment services next year.
