MPW ISSUE 114 April 17 2008
News
EAT introduce contactless payments
EAT, a sandwich, soup and coffee shop, has become the first retailer in the UK to introduce a fully integrated contactless payment system. Through using Commidea’s Ocius Chip & PIN solution with Contactless ...
Read More Adoption of contactless payment for retail and transit confirmed
Growth and excitement continues to surround the contactless financial and transit payment markets, industry leaders confirmed at the Smart Card Alliance’s first annual Payments Councils Summit held recently ...
Read More INSIDE commits to mass transit market
As transit agencies around the world move to modernize their automatic fare collection systems, INSIDE Contactless says it is bringing its MicroPass intelligent payment platform to the transit fare collection ...
Read More Amazon.com launches ‘Amazon TextBuyIt’
Amazon.com has launched Amazon ‘TextBuyIt’, a new service that lets customers use text messages to find and buy products sold on Amazon.com.
Read More Ghana’s Afric Xpress launches ‘txtNpay’
Cyphermint says its PayCash Mobile platform has been selected by Afric Xpress Services to provide the consumers in Ghana with the mobile solution, ‘txtNpay’.
Read More Virgin Megastore launches m-coupons
Virgin Megastores in New York and California has launched a campaign using mobile coupons to bring customers to their stores. Customers can receive in-store discounts on many products including CD’s, ...
Read More JupiterResearch finds more advertisers deploying mobile coupons
JupiterResearch has found a growing segment of consumers totaling 30% is interested in receiving coupons on their phones, although at one percent, adoption remains low.
Read More RadioShack and Trumpet Mobile launch prepaid service with mobile money transfer
Trumpet Mobile and RadioShack have announced the nationwide availability of Trumpet Mobile's prepaid wireless services at more than 4,300 RadioShack neighborhood locations. As one of the fastest growing ...
Read More New research finds calling for P2P payment but only one in ten willing to adopt
A new report released by Javelin Strategy & Research takes a look at mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments and transfers, an emerging m-banking service, and its inevitable shift into mainstream banking ...
Read More SMS fraud costing the public €20m a year
At the end of January AGICOM, the Italian Authority Guaranteeing Communications published an alert to consumers and operators warning them of the growing phenomenon of spam messaging to mobile devices ...
Read More Regulus introduces TXTnet
Regulus Communications has launched TXTnet, an interactive text messaging feature of the Young Author’s Magazine Anthology program. TXTnet allows individuals, families, and m-commerce businesses to interact ...
Read More Anam rolls-out SMS money transfer in the US
Anam Mobile has unveiled a service that will allow global money transfers via SMS as a new value-added service for North American wireless carriers.
Read More PosteMobile launches m-payment service in Italy
Italian MVNO PosteMobile has launched an 'electronic wallet by introducing payments via mobile phone in Italy. Customers can link the application with their Banco Posta account, allowing them to make ...
Read More Celcom selects paybox to launch new m-payments and banking platform in Malaysia
Celcom Malaysia and paybox will be launching an m-banking and m-payment solution for the Malaysian market.
Read More Canadian Credit Unions pilot m-banking
Coast Capital Savings or Mount Lehman Credit Union customer can sign up for a new service that will allow them to text their credit union to find out if they have enough money in the account to buy items.
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Read More Citi Cards to deliver mobile platform for Card members
Citi Cards and Firethorn have announced a strategic relationship to enable Citi credit card members to access real-time account information anytime, anywhere on their wireless handsets. The new service ...
Read More Obopay India and YES BANK launch instant money transfer facility
Obopay India and YES BANK have announced an alliance to launch secure m-payment solutions in India.
Read More Alliance & Leicester extends m-banking service in the UK
Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank has announced the launch of a mobile banking service for business customers provided by MONILINK.
Read More UK contactless plans underwhelm retailers
Barclaycard has announced that it plans to issue more than one million contactless cards in the UK by the end of 2008 as part of the UK contactless rollout. Over 20,000 retail outlets are expected to ...
Read More Barclaycard steps up contactless card roll out
Barclaycard says it plans to issue over a million contactless payment cards across the UK in 2008 writes Finextra.com.
Read More WaMu set to become largest US issuer of PayPass
Washington Mutual is offering its customers the convenience of going contactless in 2008 with the WaMu Debit MasterCard with PayPass.
Read More Analysis
M-payments – a regulatory approach
David Porteous is the founder and director of Bankable Frontier Associates, a niche consultancy based in Boston, which specializes in advising regulators and operators on the development of mobile money ...
Read More New report shows digitised retailing is the way of the future
Contrary to suggestions that the online channel may soon prevail over bricks and mortar stores, new research commissioned by Visa Europe indicates that these two routes to market are likely to perform ...
Read More Vendor Zone
Hypercom completes acquisition of Thales
Hypercom has announced the completion of its acquisition of Thales SA’s e-Transactions business, bringing an expanded team of industry experts to lead the now nearly one-half billion dollar revenue company. ...
Read More USA Technologies and ViVOtech expand relationship
USA Technologies and ViVOtech have entered into an agreement by which ViVOtech will provide 25,000 contactless/magstripe card readers for USATech’s ePort technology.
Read More VeriFone supplies Bank of China
VeriFone says that Bank of China has placed an order for almost 16,000 VeriFone payment solutions, extending its long-time relationship with VeriFone as the country continues to expand its card payment ...
Read More Blue Systems delivers ICAP data via mobile
Blue Systems has added ICAP’s premium data to its market data software, ‘blue’ and ‘blue mobile’. Brokers, dealers and even retail consumers will be able to keep continuously informed of market developments ...
Read More MIG and 4th Screen double win
Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) and sister company 4th Screen Advertising scooped winning positions at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards – MIG for ‘Best Billing Provider’ and a joint entry win ...
Read More Upaid streamlines operation
Upaid, has announced the formation of its Unified Development Group. The new endeavour brings together the company’s existing technical development groups, currently based in the UK, France and Brazil. ...
Read More ViVOtech joins GlobalPlatform
ViVOtech has joined GlobalPlatform membership base and will participate in the organization’s specification and standardization activities.
Read More U.S. Cellular expands off-portal mobile content services
Valista says that U.S. Cellular has selected Valista's ‘Operator Payments Service’ to enable its off-portal premium content business.
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