Mobile Wallet Technology: Warming up For the Battle Royale

The mobile wallet movement is inevitable. But so are the bumps in the road. If there's anything that's going to delay the mobile wallet's future on a global scale rivaling, well, telephony itself, it's going to be because there are so many players and stakeholders tilling the same soil to sow what they hope to reap. The fact that so many giants and would-be giants are trying to make their networks and systems-in-development the standard mobile wallet platform ensures a battle royale. The development race will be just that, a race. But, in the end there will only be a few competitors and everyone else will cease chasing the Holy Grail and fall in under one or another network. But, because we're investors seeking an edge and know that by the time the end-game is resolved the big money will have been made, we are looking for a "heads-up" on where to place our bets early.