MPW ISSUE 116 May 30 2008
News
Banque Populaire launches contactless payment pilot in Besançon
Banque Populaire is launching the ‘Flash’ card pilot project for payment with the contactless Visa Carte Bleue card, which implements Visa payWave technology.
Read More INSIDE Contactless passes 50m milestone
Affirming its position in the contactless payments market, INSIDE Contactless says that shipments of its MicroPass intelligent payment platform for contactless payment cards have surpassed 50m units. ...
Read More Payments Council launches first national plan for UK payments
The UK’s Payments Council has unveiled the first national plan for UK payments, providing a strategic framework for payments innovation and change over the next decade.
Read More PayPal and Sprint Nextel team on m-payments app
PayPal has signed its first deal with a mobile operator to launch a person to person (P2P) m-payments service via Sprint Nextel’s m-wallet called ‘MyMoneyManager’.
Read More ‘payforIT’ goes online
The UK mobile payment initiative payforIT is expanding onto the World Wide Web with the help of Dialogue Communications. The payforIT payment mechanism will offer shoppers an online payment alternative ...
Read More Monitise and Metavante partner with Carphone Warehouse for mobile money
Monitise and Metavante are working with Carphone Warehouse to launch a ‘mobile money’ scheme. The launch will see the introduction of a Carphone Warehouse prepay card, managed directly from the mobile ...
Read More TransferOrbit acquires MMT platform from FonWallet
TransferOrbit Corporation has announced the acquisition of FonWallet's Mobile Money Transfer and Bill Payment Platform.
Read More Airtel launches m–commerce applications in a wide ranging partnership
Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of a whole range of m-commerce solutions such as Mobile Money Transfer (MMT), Postpaid Bill Payment and Prepaid Recharge on the mobile phone. It is partnering with ...
Read More Satyam loses appeal against High Court judgment in Upaid case
Upaid Systems says that the Court of Appeal in London affirmed a January High Court Judgment in Upaid’s favour against Satyam Computer Services, soundly rejecting the Indian software leader’s effort to ...
Read More Mobile two-factor authentication on the rise
Fronde Anywhere has reported significant uptake of its mobile two-factor authentication platform, TwoSecure.
Read More Mobile banking services to see rapid increase in Western Europe
Adoption of m-banking should increase rapidly in major European markets. Thanks to improvements in mobile technology and high mobile phone adoption rates in Europe, banks are able to offer a wide range ...
Read More Global banks begin major investment in m-banking
Driven by the excellent opportunity provided by m-banking to enhance existing customer services, nearly a third of the world’s largest financial organizations are planning to launch m-banking services ...
Read More Telefónica to launch m-banking with I-ADB
Spanish operator Telefonica will launch m-banking services to economically challenged countries in Latin America. Developed in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (I-ADB), the new m-banking ...
Read More Indian m-banking set to grow
Mobile banking has emerged the most promising front end technology for broadening the access of finance in the country, By Probir Roy
Read More Made In Africa to launch m-banking and payments in East Africa
Monitise has signed Heads of Terms with Made In Africa, the organisation which is heading east African economic growth, to launch its m-banking and payments platform in East Africa. The proposed partnership ...
Read More Bank Zachodni WBK's introduces European contactless prepaid
Metavante Technologies has announced that Bank Zachodni WBK (BZWBK) has deployed Metavante’s CORTEX card processing software platform to provide Central and Eastern Europe with one of the region’s first ...
Read More Analysis
The early experience with branchless banking – a CGAP report
MPW recently read a report by CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor). The report is so thorough that I had difficulty editing it down without leaving large and highly relevant tracts of information ...
Read More Vendor Zone
Canon launches new terminals
Canon is introducing two completely open ruggedized ‘All-in-One’ POS terminals in Europe: the ergonomic workhorse Canon Handy Terminal GT-10 and the hardworking slimliner, Canon Handy Terminal GT-1W.
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Read More Wireless M2M module shipments to increase fourfold
Markets for mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) communication modules – the radio units providing wireless connectivity to a range of devices that communicate without human intervention – are expected to ...
Read More GlobalPlatform mobile DRM
GlobalPlatform says its device specification – the GPD/STIP Specification (Small Terminal Interoperability Platform) – has been used by application provider Calton Hill, to provide a secure device software ...
Read More Opinions
Mobile Payment – A recruiter’s perspective: By Luke Phibbs, PSD Group
Although the actual figures in the various research reports vary significantly, the widespread adoption of the mobile phone as a payment mechanism now seems a certainty. PSD has recruited into the payment ...
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