| MPW 120 September 05 2008 |
NEXT ISSUE October 03 2008 |
News
2008 Debit Issuer Study shows growth for ‘Emerging Technologies’
The 2008 Debit Issuer Study, conducted by Oliver Wyman, provides new data and comparisons to the results of the 2007 Debit Issuer Study, released in February 2007.
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PayPass available in Slovakia
MasterCard says it is now possible to use payment cards that allow purchases to be made without the wait involved in contacting the issuing bank for confirmation in Slovakia, according to MasterCard Europe ...
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Arby's Restaurants roll-out mobile coupons
Cellfire has announced that Arby's will use its service to distribute mobile coupons redeemable at 250 restaurants throughout Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Los Angeles, and Tampa-St. Petersburg. ...
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OCBC Bank offer remote top-up for EZ-Link cards
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC Bank) and EZ-Link have announced a collaboration to introduce a remote means of topping-up EZ-Link cards, for greater customer convenience.
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atom becomes India’s first m-payments provider to receive VISA security certification
atom technologies says that it has been accredited with Visa Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) certification for its soon to be announced m-payments platform - atom.
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Serbia extends national m-payments system
The National Bank of Serbia in cooperation with Telekom Srbija, has launched a new m-payment element to the existing ‘DinaCard’ system.
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Octopus moves into the telecommunications sector through PEOPLES
China Mobile Peoples Telephone (PEOPLES) and Octopus Cards (OCL) have announced their cooperation to launch, for the first time, Octopus self-service payments in the telecommunications sector. Starting ...
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Ralph Lauren launches m-commerce
Polo is set to launch the first luxury m-commerce website according to a press release.
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Hacker implements Java bug which affects millions of phones
To further calls on mobile network operators and phone manufacturers to implement anti-virus on handsets, a Polish security expert and hacker claims to have discovered vulnerabilities in the mobile Java ...
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Chase pilot mobile merchant offers
Visa and Chase have announced a consumer pilot to deliver, via SMS, merchant offers directly to the mobile devices of Chase credit and debit cardholders in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Alerus Financial to offer m-banking
Alerus Financial has selected ClairMail to power its new m-banking offering – ‘Alerus Mobile Access’.
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MMT opportunity for service providers to exceed $5bn
A new analysis by Juniper Research forecasts that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5bn globally by 2013 - based on the commissions and ...
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CPNI enhances m-banking platform
CPNI has released an enhanced version of ‘PATbank’, its m-banking platform. This latest release extends the ability for banks to provide mobile solutions to their retail, private banking and wealth management ...
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Vendor Update
Lisbon selects ASK for 25m contactless paper tickets
ASK says that OTLIS, the Lisbon transport operators, has again selected ‘C.ticket’, ASK’s contactless paper tickets for their Automatic Fare Collection ticketing system.
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North American banks launch transaction notification pilot
Visa and eight leading North American financial institutions – PNC Bank, SunTrust Bank, U.S. Bank, Wachovia, Wells Fargo and Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, and Vancity in Canada – have ...
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Basingstoke adopts m-parking
Basingstoke & Deane Council is launching Parkmobile’s mobile phone parking solution to provide the motorists with an alternative method of paying for their parking charges in their pay & display car parks. ...
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ViVOtech tops contactless payment, ticketing, and NFC vendor rankings
ViVOtech has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Cubic Transportation Systems and OTI (On Track Innovations) claimed the second and third spots in the company’s ...
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mBlox launches global network management centre
Continuing investment in its network infrastructure, mBlox, says that it is launching a global network management centre (NMC) to provide upgraded monitoring and maintenance capabilities to their network. ...
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NETS, SingTel and UOB launch public NFC trial
Singapore’s leading electronic payments provider, NETS, together with SingTel and United Overseas Bank has launched a six-month trial which will enable Singaporeans to make payments using their mobile ...
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Real time cashless payment with RFID
Idesco’s ‘9 CL Quattro’ reader technology has been integrated into a cashless vending solution for the vending and kiosk industry by Vianet, a UK-based company which specialises in vending management ...
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G&D and Venyon guarantee interoperability between NFC-enabled SIM card and TSM services
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Venyon have come another step closer to the mass-market launch of NFC services. The successful outcome of interoperability tests between the two companies’ respective NFC ...
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Visa reports $10m Olympic Games opening day spending
Visa has announced that the ‘international tourists who have joined the more than 11,000 athletes from 204 participating National Olympic Committees in China for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games have had ...
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Garanti wins award for contactless loyalty sticker
On Track Innovations has announced that Garanti Technology (GT), an affiliate of Garanti Bank, Turkey's third largest private bank, has won the ‘Best Innovation in a Loyalty Programme’ award at the Cards ...
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Poor outlook for mobile device vendors in the Future
Mobile devices are the biggest-selling consumer electronics products in the world, with more than 1bn shipping every year. However, the market is in a state of rapid flux.
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Bank Asya launch multi-application chip and PIN card
Bank Asya has launched ‘Asyacard DIT’ - a multi-application chip and PIN card, combining MasterCard EMV OneSmart features with an integrated municipal toll and transit application and PayPass technology. ...
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