| Mobile Payments World
143 February 19 2010 |
NEXT ISSUE March 08 2010 |
News
Virtual goods market worth $3.6 billion
Mobile payment startups Kwedit and Boku are developing methods to pay for virtual goods for use with Facebook games.
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Hungary’s first contactless payment rollout
VeriFone says that its payment systems are being used by OTP Bank of Hungary in the country’s first rollout of PayPass contactless cards.
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Nets makes m-payments move
Singaporean e-payments outfit Nets (MPW 104, 120) has launched a platform that enables customers to pay bills and buy goods and services from multiple ...
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Splash expand MMT in Sierra Leone
Splash Mobile Money Limited and MoreMagic Solutions have announced the expansion of Sierra Leone’s first mobile money transfer system.
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Small businesses adopting m-payment systems
Small merchants that operate remotely often have difficulty in facilitating credit card transactions, but there are many new options that enable cards ...
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Telefonica launches NFC mobile shopping pilot
Telefonica, in partnership with Spanish financial institution La Caixa, will launch a NFC pilot in the Spanish resort of Sitges, in the Autonomous Community ...
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mBlox launch PayMobile France
mBlox has launched a mobile payment solution in France.
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Mobile Banking
M-banking subscriber doubling every year
New forecasts from ABI Research indicate that in 2015 about 244 million people worldwide will carry out financial transactions with their banks using ...
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Visa no signature plan could hurt contactless
Observers say that the US adoption of contactless payments could be further impeded by Visa's plan to expand its ‘No Signature Required’ program for magnetic-stripe ...
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NFC Forum forges collaborative industry ties
The NFC Forum has formed liaisons with three industry-leading organizations key to the NFC global ecosystem: EMVCo, the GSM Association and the Smart ...
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G&D shows security dominance
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has developed the first prototype of a complete security platform for a mobile handset, with Qualcomm’s support, and displayed ...
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Wells extends text banking to all customers
Wells Fargo says that text banking is now accessible to all customers including those who have yet to enrol in Wells Fargo Online Banking. Wells Fargo ...
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ID fraud grows at a record pace
The number of US ID theft victims rose 12% to 11 million people over the last year, while the total value of the fraud perpetrated against these individuals ...
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Mobile Payments
Demand for mobile financial services grows
While mobile coupon and mobile commerce usage may not have grown as quickly as many marketers hoped, Americans appear to be eagerly adopting mobile banking. ...
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Sagem secure Android with fingerprint ID
French handset manufacturer Sagem Wireless has revealed plans to launch a Google Android phone that incorporates fingerprint authentication technology ...
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Mobile money for Android
Monitise’s Mobile Money Android app will soon be available as a free download from the ‘Android Market’ and will be compatible with all Android devices. ...
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C-Store industry poised to adopt contactless payments
An expected explosion in smartphone use is prompting mobile industry players to envision mobile payment technology widely penetrating the convenience ...
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PayPal launches mobile payments for developers
PayPal has introduced a beta version of its Mobile Payments Library for developers.
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Mobile Remittance
Vodacom South Africa rolls-out M-PESA
¬Vodafone has announced that it is bringing the mobile money service, M-PESA to South Africa, to be deployed by Vodacom and its South African banking ...
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MPOS
Barclaycard’s ‘smart phone POS’
Barclaycard says it has taken another step towards making its customers lives simpler by revealing that it is trialling a new mobile payments service, ...
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Contactless NFC
Visa trials microSD mobile payments
Visa and DeviceFidelity have announced plans to market a solution that can enable a mobile phone with a memory card slot to be used as a Visa mobile payment ...
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Mobile shopping will grow to $119 billion
According to ABI Research, in 2015, shoppers around the world are expected to spend about $119 billion on goods and services purchased via mobile phones. ...
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MCB sees $10 million mobile money milestone
MCB, one of Pakistan’s leading banks, has passed an important milestone. In less than eight months the bank’s MCB Mobile service has processed more than ...
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Pocket Size RFID handheld readers
DAILY RFID has unveiled its new series of RFID Handheld Readers/Writers for RFID mobile solution. These handheld RFID Readers DL710 and DL720 have a smart ...
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Mobile contactless payments trialled at MWC 2010
The GSMA, Samsung, Telefónica, and Visa, together with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, have announced the arrival of contactless ...
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Wonga’s 'virtual cash machine'
Online credit start-up Wonga has launched a mobile app that offers instant short-term loans over the iPhone to approved applicants. The company says the ...
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Fundamo certified as Western Union mobile vendor
Fundamo has announced its certification by Western Union as a key partner in the Mobile Vendor Program. The program is designed to extend the reach and ...
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Vendor Zone
VeriFone buys into Chinese m-payments market
VeriFone is to co-lead investment in a reverse merger financing for Trunkbow International Holdings, a Jinan, People's Republic of China-based mobile ...
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Gemalto adds NFC coupons to its TSM
Gemalto has partnered with HighCo to provide user-friendly mobile coupon services via NFC.
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Mobile barcode interoperability
At the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress, Neustar announced the debut of its Mobile Barcode Clearinghouse Services. The services will help expand the reach ...
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GCASH and BOKU Partner for international mobile payments
Globe Telecom, a mobile operator in the Philippines through its wholly owned mobile commerce subsidiary G-Xchange (GXI), is partnering with BOKU to expand ...
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Vesta upgrades m-payment platform
Vesta has announced the availability of version 5.0 of mobile payment platform. The new platform enables operators to accept more payment types and achieve ...
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Gemalto integrates DESFire into NFC phone
Gemalto is enabling commuters to use their mobile phones as e- tickets in MIFARE DESFire infrastructures. Gemalto is the first to achieve the implementation ...
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UK survey highlights consumer demand for mobile tickets
New research reveals 60% of UK consumers believe mobile tickets are more convenient and easier to use than standard printed tickets. The research highlights ...
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Oberthur partners with UTIBA
Oberthur Technologies has partnered with Utiba to create a complementary suite of secured Mobile Money Services and Money Transfer Solutions to mobile ...
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Gemalto buys into mobile authentication
Gemalto has acquired mobile authentication company Valimo Wireless.
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Consortium launches NFC in Slovenia
An international consortium of payment and wireless companies have announced their participation in a field trial being conducted by Banka Koper to bring ...
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