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Apple Wants to Let You Make Payments Through Texts, Phone Calls, and Emails

Sarah Grotta by Sarah Grotta
January 4, 2016
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Apple has long been expected to get into the person-to-person (P2P) payments business joining People Pay, PopMoney, ClearXchange, as well as PayPal, Venmo, Dwolla and a host of other online and mobile P2P service providers. Apple’s interest in P2P is not just rumor, they patented plans for a mobile based P2P service years ago and then in November, 2015 were reported to be in talks with major banks on the topic. As reported recently in Quartz, Apple filed another patent just last month that broadens its P2P payments capabilities beyond messaging apps and includes, at least conceptually, the ability to make payments through a variety of channels:

A patent filing published earlier this month (Dec. 2015) indicates that Apple is not only looking at allowing people to send money over its text messaging service, but other services built into the iOS platform, including phone calls, email, and calendar invites.
Last month, Quartz reported that people close to Apple said the tech giant was exploring adding payments to iMessage.

As the article points out, just because Apple applies for a patent doesn’t mean it will act on it, but Apple is positioned to make a difference in P2P payments. Not just because it is one of the most widely known and trusted brands in the world, but because it has the opportunity to launch a P2P service without being encumbered by the need to deliver revenue:

Thus far it’s proven difficult for companies to make money through peer-to-peer payment services due to low margins. However, that may not matter to Apple. Adding payments to communication apps it already owns will be a way for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company to tap into a coveted demographic.

Overview by Sarah Grotta, Director, Debit Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group

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