This document discusses the growth of mobile payments and financial services using mobile wallets. It outlines that developed and emerging markets are seeing a wave of mobile proximity payment initiatives using near field communication (NFC) technology. The mobile payments market is growing significantly and expected to reach $630 billion by 2014. NFC devices and phones are reaching mass markets which will help drive further adoption of mobile wallets and payments. This represents a major opportunity, especially to provide financial services to the 80% of the world population that is currently unbanked.