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Well deserved backlash. When India did a similar thing with Bhartiya Mahilla Bank, they expected that women will feel more comfortable visiting a women-only bank. Alas, it was not to be. According to a tiny article in the Economic Times last week, BMB was shut down and its assets quietly absorbed into SBI, India's largest bank.

Totally agree with the previous two comments. It's high time regulators turned their spotlight towards merchants: As soon as the no-surcharge rule was removed, merchants have felt free to fleece customers with as high as 7.5% extra fees, disguised as convenience charge, Internet handling charge, and so on. https://twitter.com/s_ketharaman/statuses/625931400634613760

This just out: 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-01/why-apple-wants-to-get-into-the-unprofitable-world-of-payments-between-friends

"Owners of newer iPhone models used Apple Pay in 2.7 percent of Black Friday transactions at stores that support the feature, compared with 4.9 percent on the same day last year, according to data from tracking firm InfoScout."

That's a massive drop in usage of Apple Pay y-o-y.

It's not an effect of the big players. According to this Bloomberg article, Apple Pay itself is struggling to gain momentum. End of the day, it's not about QR code or NFC. It's about paying the price of solving a non-existent problem.

Mobile Wallets: Fix What's Broken - And It Ain't Payments

Like the Bloomberg anchorperson says on the video, it's so easy to swipe a card.

Agreed + Bank Insources Credit Card Reward Redemption Theft

The headline says "mobile transactions". In that case, if mobile doesn't have Internet connectivity, neither the dynamic CVV nor the rest of the transaction would go through. So no problem. The body of the article suggests that the feature could be applicable even for desktop transactions, in which case the situation - however rare or common - under which desktop has Internet but mobile does not have Internet would cause shopping cart abandonment and failed payment.   

While on the subject, a couple of days ago, State Bank of India, India's largest bank, launched an OTP generator mobile app. This complements the traditional method of delivery of OTP via SMS. Both methods are applicable for desktop and mobile transactions. The old method caused abandonment and failed payment. Only time will tell how the app will fare.  

Indeed, lost revenues can exceed fraud loss savings. 

Mitigating Fraud Does Not Pay The Bills

Noncash payment methods have their own hidden costs. The intermediaries who stand to make a cut on every non cash payment are either ignorant about them or choose to ignore them. Alas, they're only evident to poor cabbies. Not surprisingly, they refuse card payments because they know that Cash in Hand Is Worth More Than Card In Bush

If the true Uber / Borders moments happen, banks themselves won't be around to cut staff, so the point is moot.

Going by the number of contractual commitments and annual OCC and other audits that outsourcers submit to, curious to know how this is different from the "back-to-back" conditions that have been in force for a long time?

@AnonFinextraMember:

1. While ewallets do use V/MC, that's not the only rails they can use. Some of them support TELCO rails e.g. Boku, Zong. Others use ACH rails e.g. PayPal, PayTM
2. I regularly use an ewallet because it eliminates the friction associated with the conventional payment process. For the merchant, that means manifold increase in conversion. Real - not perceived - increase. Due to reduced friction, not higher security. HDFC Bank's PayZapp Ends My Bill Payment Woes
3. Gone are the days when middleman automatically meant higher cost. When I pay a bill directly, many biller websites levy a surcharge of 1-2% for accepting credit cards. Whereas, when I pay the same bills via a third party mobile wallet like PayZapp, not only do I escape the surcharge but I actually get a cashback at the end of the month. So, thanks to funding from sugar daddies / VCs, middleman could actually mean LOWER costs! Both for the consumer and merchant. 
4. As long as the funding tap doesn't dry up, ewallets are not dead-on-arrival. Personally, it's never a good idea to invest your nest egg in the private markets but, as long as the party lasts, why shouldn't savvy consumers and merchants partake of the festivities?