Digital Wallets Become More Optimized As Today's New Wireless Mobile Technology Aims To Replace Credit-Card Stuffed Wallets

Analysts forecast mobile in-store payments to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 154% to $189 billion in 2018. Companies in focus today are: NXTD-ID, Inc. NXTD, eBay Inc. EBAY, Apple Inc. AAPL, Google Inc. GOOG and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA. NXT-ID, Inc. NXTD, a biometric authentication company focused on the growing mobile commerce market announces that in celebration of its recently completed financing and NASDAQ listing, it will ring the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square on Monday October 13th. Gino Pereira, CEO of NXT-ID, said, "This is a significant day for the company and our shareholders. The recently completed financing and listing on NASDAQ is a milestone in our development. He added," We look forward to bringing our biometric smart wallet, the Wocket™, to consumers later this year as the first of our biometric identification and verification products. In this age where data breaches are common place our ability to protect and secure the private information of consumers assumes increasing importance."