MPW ISSUE 107 November 7 2007
News
50m consumers to pay for goods and services via mobile by 2011
New forecasts from Juniper Research show that around 52m consumers will adopt new mobile technologies such as NFC and other physical m-payment methods to pay for everyday goods and services by 2011. This ...
Read More Chiltern Railway’s trials m-ticketing
In an extension to its m-ticketing delivery system, Chiltern Railways has announced an m-ticketing platform that means passengers can buy a rail ticket direct from their mobile.
Read More Kingfisher Airlines partners with PayMate to launch
Kingfisher Airlines has introduced ‘FlyBuySMS’ to book flight tickets.
Read More Fidelity announce successful trial of Cyphermint’s solution
Fidelity Express says that its internal tests of Cyphermint’s mobile solution linked to Fidelity’s ‘XPressPay’ was successful.
Read More Payter announces 500th consumer in m-payment pilot
Dutch company Payter has connected the 500th consumer to what is one of the largest pilots with m-payments in Europe. On August 27th in the city centre of Rotterdam, Payter started this its six month ...
Read More EZ-Link and StarHub move closer to commercial roll-out
Just six weeks after announcing a partnership to trial NFC services in Singapore (MPW 105), EZ-Link and StarHub say they have completed a series of internal trials. With over 20,000 EZ-Link payment acceptance ...
Read More Orange rehash old trial
Orange has launched a major trial of mobile contactless services with Manchester City Football Club (MCFC). In the first phase of the trial, the technology will allow fans to use their mobile phones ...
Read More Visa Europe kicks off Visa payWave in Switzerland
Visa Europe has announced the first use of Visa payWave technology in Switzerland and chose FIFA's headquarters in Zurich to kick off the initiative. Visa recently became a FIFA Partner with global rights ...
Read More Support for the next generation of contactless cards
Bell ID has announced further enhancements to ANDiS4EMV – launching a contactless solution, which offers current and aspiring contactless card issuers a simple and easy way to issue Visa payWave (MSD, ...
Read More Eavesdropping: “No threat to contactless transactions”
Much has been made of Eavesdropping, snooping and cloning with regards to the contactless and NFC market recently.
Read More Western Union and GSMA create ‘Global Mobile Money Transfer’ service
The GSM Association (GSMA) and The Western Union Company have reached an agreement to facilitate the development of cross-border mobile money transfer services.
Read More National launch of ‘Mobile Payment Service’ in Serbia
Upaid has begun the national launch of its Mobile Payment Service (MPS) marketing campaign in Serbia. Including all three mobile operators and 10 banks in Serbia, this national launch is an expansion ...
Read More An $8bn opportunity for the mobile money transfer
Transferring funds safely and securely using mobile phones has the potential to revolutionize the way people around the world utilize their money, and it holds the promise of driving great social benefits ...
Read More Mobile phone as secure ID for e-commerce
Masabi and GrIDsure say they have co-developed a new secure ID system using mobile phones. By using Masabi's EncryptME, the world's first certified Java security application for mobile phones featuring ...
Read More Wells Fargo launches ‘Mobile Text Banking’ service
Wells Fargo has released another component of its Wells Fargo MobileSM service: text banking. This addition makes Wells Fargo the first major financial services company in the country to offer its consumer ...
Read More BB&T to offer m-banking services
BB&T Corporation says it has partnered with two California-based m-banking and payment providers to offer one of the industry's most comprehensive m-banking services.
Read More Sybase launches ‘mBanking 365’
Sybase 365 has announced the availability of Sybase ‘mBanking 365’, a suite of products for the financial industry enabling banks to interact with customers in real-time through mobile alerts, two-way ...
Read More ViVOpay 5000 contactless reader for use in EMEA, Latin America, and Canada
ViVOtech has announced that its ViVOpay 5000 is now available to participants in new PayPass programs throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America and Canada.
Read More OTI provides contactless readers to UK roll-out
On Track Innovations (OTI) says it has been selected to provide the contactless readers for a rollout by major UK issuers of a contactless payment program.
Read More US announce success of fingerprint trial
Atrua Technologies says it has provided the fingerprint recognition solution on Kyocera handsets used for the successful m-payments trial conducted by Cellular South, the US's largest privately held wireless ...
Read More 4th Screen Advertising partner to provide mobile video advertising
Media Layers and 4th Screen Advertising have announced a partnership to launch a joint mobile advertising service offering focused on video.
Read More Vendor Zone
M-banking vendors: tackling the technology - distribution trade-off
2007 will be known as the year that m-banking gained traction in the US. Six of the top ten US banks, as well as numerous smaller banks and credit unions, now offer some form of m-banking to their customers.
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Read More eBIZ.mobility and Breathe Networks partnership
eBIZ.mobility together with Breathe Networks have reached a joint agreement to offer eBIZ.mobility's award-winning ‘OneTouch Online Purchasing’ payment processing service to Breathe Network's subscribers.
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Read More mFoundry raises $15m in Series C financing
mFoundry has completed a $15m Series C round of financing. Motorola, through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, led the round joined by existing investors as well as other strategic ...
Read More INSIDE Contactless announce availability of next gen MicroPass core
INSIDE Contactless have announced the availability of its new MicroPass Fob Core for contactless payments.
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