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Payleven has raised more funding to aid its mobile commerce initiatives

Payleven, a mobile payments startup that was initially incubated in 2012, has announced that it has raised $10 million during its latest round of funding. This brings the total funding that the startup has raised to $51 million. The funding is has added additional growth capital to Payleven, which has managed to find significant success among small and medium sized businesses. The company is expected to compete with others in the mobile commerce field, which has become quite competitive in recent years.

Seventure Partners joins other investors in supporting Payleven

Seventure Partners, a European venture capital firm based in France, is the newest investor in Payleven. The firm notes that it is excited about the prospects of the mobile payments company. Seventure Partners believes that Payleven has shown that financial technology companies are able to reach scale in promising markets, finding considerable profitability in a relatively short amount of time. The new investor may prove to be a boon for Payleven, which intends to find more success in the mobile commerce space.

Funding will help Payleven expand into new markets and acquire more customers

The funding raised by Payleven will be used to expand into new product lines and accelerate customer acquisition. The funding will also help the company stay competitive in the financial technology space. The market has become extremely competitive, with several companies, some of which are quite large, have become involved in this space, introducing new and highly popular mobile payments platforms. This competitive environment has fostered innovation, but some companies have found it difficult to connect with both consumers and businesses.

Competition in the mobile commerce space is heating up

Mobile commerce is expected to see significant growth in the coming years, which may benefit smaller companies like Payleven. These companies will have to provide innovative, secure, and convenient services in order to gain support from consumers. Retailers, in particular, have shown strong support for mobile payments systems from startups, largely due to their ability to create a dynamic connection with consumers.

A new report from Trendforce has shown that this year will have wallet apps taking off.

Research firm, TrendForce, has released a report in which its researchers have forecasted that mobile payments systems will be taking off at full throttle this year, which will come to a considerable relief to the financial institutions, retailers, tech companies, and other parties that have made massive investments into this tech.

As of yet, mobile wallets have yet to take off with consumers, despite the entry of Apple into the space.

The report showed that with both Samsung and Apple entering into the mobile payments ecosystem with a heavy push, it is likely that there will be a sizeable growth in this area that will propel it far beyond the level it had reached last year. In 2015, the total revenues that were brought in by the worldwide mobile wallet market are estimated, by TrendForce, to have reached $450 billion. That said, it is predicting that this figure will have made a far greater achievement by the end of this year. In fact, it is expecting that smartphone based payments will have reached a tremendous 37.8 percent year over year growth rate.

This will mean that mobile payments will have been able to hit the $620 billion mark, worldwide, this year.

Next year, the growth rate is expected to decrease, though it will still remain quite high, at a predicted 25.8 percent. The year after, it will drop again but will remain healthy at 19.2 percent and in 2019, that will slide again but will still grow by 16.1 percent. In the last year of the forecast, there will still have been a growth of $10.8 billion over what it had been the year prior.

When it comes to the success of Apple Pay as a mobile wallet option, both that company and many analysts continue to say that it will depend on how receptive China becomes to the brand and to that specific wallet app.

The report indicated that it will be Samsung Pay and Apple Pay that will make up a tremendous chunk of the smartphone based payment market and those two companies have been working hard to try to carve out as much of China as they possibly can. This has been a very challenging battle as both companies have manage to strike a deal with the government operated Chinese banking card payments processor, China UnionPay. These virtually simultaneous partnerships will mean that Chinese customers will have the choice between these two giants and their mobile payments services.