The mobile wallet race officially became the mobile wallet war last Wednesday, after Facebook announced plans to support the use of its Facebook Pay system on sites outside of its ecosystem.
This first big step into the wider world of payments would have been less remarkable had it not involved Shopify’s 1.7 million merchants as its inaugural external test case. It was a move that gave the Facebook endeavor an immediate degree of credibility and surely caught the eye of wallet-space heavyweights like Apple, Google, PayPal, and more.