A company formed this year to launch a "contactless" in-store payments system to compete with Google Wallet has hired a Constantine Cannon lawyer as its first lobbyist.
Merchant Customer Exchange LLC (MCX) enlisted Constantine partner Todd Anderson to discuss "MCX's mobile payments and offers solution," according to lobbying registration paperwork filed with Congress this week.
Anderson had no immediate comment.
Established in August,
MCX has 30 partners, including Target, CVS Pharmacy and Best Buy. The mobile
platform, which is still under development, will give "consumers and
merchants a mobile-commerce solution that seamlessly integrates payments with a
wide range of offers, promotions and services through virtually any
smartphone," according to MCX.
Google Wallet, launched in 2011, allows users of Android devices to make in-store payments "anywhere contactless payments are accepted," giving consumers a choice of more than 140,000 merchants, according to Google.
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