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Contactless payment reaches watershed

2013 has seen contactless momentum in the UK grow significantly with 1.5 million Visa contactless transactions being made on London Buses since December, M&S processing over 230,000 contactless transactions every week and the Post Office installing contactless payment terminals in all of its 11,500 branches.

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Mobile device crimeware evolves into global criminal marketplace

In a “post-PC” era, mobile devices increasingly present an attractive, practical and economical alternative to traditional desktops. In the coming years, global mobile payments are predicted to exceed $1.3 trillion, moreover, presenting a mother lode of opportunity for cybercrime gangs who appreciate the vulnerabilities of these peripatetic communications and computing platforms, the APWG’s analysis reports.

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Mobile Payments

  • C-SAM and TrustNordics partner for mobile wallets More than half a billion mobile phones worldwide ...
  • MPayMe and First Data form strategic alliance MPayMe a Hong Kong-based mobile specialist and First ...
  • DataCash and MoPowered to enhance mobile shopping Research conducted by the Interactive Media in Retail ...
  • M-Pesa innovation hard to export Kenya’s mobile banking innovation may prove difficult to ...
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    Contactless NFC

  • Contactless payment reaches watershed moment as usage grows 46% in three months Visa Europe today confirmed that contactless usage has ...
  • Telecom Italia and SIA testing mobile ticketing service via NFC Public transport companies TPER (Transport Passenger Emilia-Romagna), ANM ...
  • Survey reveals industry expectations for contactless payments are overambitious A survey conducted by Compass Plus has revealed ...
  • CIBC brings mobile payments app to Android phones CIBC announced an expansion of the CIBC Mobile ...
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    Mobile Banking

  • Mobey Forum gets Bullish with Banks Banks and financial institutions should quit viewing mobile ...
  • BNP launches full-service mobile bank BNP Paribas is to tap rising demand for banking ...
  • CIBC brings mobile payments app to Android phones CIBC announced an expansion of the CIBC Mobile ...
  • Chase enhances Jot mobile application Today, Ink from Chase, the business card portfolio ...
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    Mobile Remittance

  • Vodacom to re-launch M-Pesa in SA Vodacom, SA’s largest cellular company, is set to ...
  • Uganda mobile money users hit 9 million Mobile money usage in Uganda tripled last year, ...
  • M-pesa Tanzania reports five million subs Vodacom Tanzania says that the number of people ...
  • M-Pesa innovation hard to export Kenya’s mobile banking innovation may prove difficult to ...
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    M POS

  • Mobile POS grows to $2 billion market From the C-level on down, the buzz about ...
  • MPOS not just for micro merchants Handpoint launched its new Chip and PIN mobile ...
  • Square expands into Asia with Japan launch Square, the digital payments company, is launching in Japan, ...
  • Eftpos announces contract to enable mobile payments Eftpos Australia says it will begin mobile payments ...
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    Analysis

  • France Overtakes UK as Europe’s Top Card Fraud Victim FICO has published an updated map of card fraud in Europe that ...
  • How does a Bitcoin transactions work? Bitcoin’s features come with many security concerns…so how ...
  • Mobile device crimeware evolves into global criminal marketplace The sprawling mobile devices marketplace has spawned an ...
  • The P2P sharing economy In the emergent peer-to-peer (P2P) “sharing” economy, new ...
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    Opinions

  • The mobile wallet: under the hood The plethora of smart devices that we have ...
  • Banking on mobile payments Smartphone sales are continuing to grow across the ...
  • Rising Africa – the Case for Consumer Goods and Mobile Payments Africa is on the rise. For the past ...
  • Mobile NFC – what’s all the hype about Mobile NFC has been discussed intensively over the ...
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    Vendor Zone

  • Vesta introduces new mobile wallet Vesta Corporation has announced the availability of the ...
  • DeviceFidelity adds NFC patents to its portfolio DeviceFidelity announced the company has now obtained a ...
  • Paypal Look back at last quarter and launch Siri competitor We had another good quarter here at PayPal ...
  • LG integrates PayPal in smart TVs LG Electronics has started to offer PayPal on ...
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