MPW ISSUE 132 June 19 2009
Vendor Zone
Integri and Micropross combined test solution for NFC
Integri and MicroPross have announced a partnership dedicated to offering an advanced test solution conforming to the NFC Forum specifications for NFC technology.
Purchase Issue CLF tester with SWP and HCI conformance test cases
COMPRION has began to rollout ‘Prove 2’, its new Contactless Fronted Chips (CLF) test tool containing conformance test cases in accordance with the latest ETSI core specifications for SWP (ETSI TS 102 ...
Purchase Issue Intuit latest to launch mobile acceptance tool
Intuit GoPayment, a new way for business owners to process credit cards on their mobile phones, is the first small business application available for the new Palm Pre phone.
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Mobile Money Transfer Explained - Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO, LUUP
Luup announced a landmark deal with Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division in Q1 2009, bringing into the public domain their planned migration from a consumer and merchant m-payments service, ...
Purchase Issue Contactless NFC
Gemalto extends service for Singapore's NFC pilot
More than 750 merchant locations across Singapore are participating in the three-month pilot, which was launched in May 2009. Up to 300 selected Citi M1 Visa Platinum card members have been invited to ...
Purchase Issue Georgia launches multi-app contactless card
Oberthur has launched a new Visa payWave contactless payment program with the People’s Bank in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Purchase Issue AcCells makes breakthrough for contactless m-payments
AcCells and mChek have announced "a patent-pending breakthrough for contactless payments".
Purchase Issue LA Metro selects NXP
NXP has announced that Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is the world’s first transport operator to implement NXP’s MIFARE Plus contactless technology for its automatic ...
Purchase Issue Mobile Payments
Nigerian banks slow m-banking progress
Indications have emerged that Nigerian banks have moved against the quest of MTN Nigeria and Zain to obtain m-banking license operations from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The regulatory body has ...
Purchase Issue Celcom roll-out AirCash
Sybase 365 has been selected by Celcom in Malaysia, to power ‘AirCash’, the region’s first USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) based mobile financial service available to over 9 million customers ...
Purchase Issue Canada launches Zoompass
EnStream, a mobile commerce joint venture company owned by Bell Mobility, Rogers and TELUS - Canada’s three leading wireless operators, has launched ‘Zoompass’, a mobile money transfer and payment service. ...
Purchase Issue Raiffeisen Bank debut prepaid card with m-payments
Raiffeisen Bank and RêvEurope are breaking new ground in Romania’s emerging prepaid card market with the launch of the Raiffeisen Bank Visa Prepaid Card, the only prepaid card to allow Romanians to send ...
Purchase Issue Gartner: M-payment users to increase 70% in 2009
The mobile payment industry will experience steady growth, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide will total 73.4 million in 2009, up 70.4% from 2008 when there were 43.1 million users, according ...
Purchase Issue Prepaid and Remittances key to m-payment growth
A new “Mobile Payments” report concludes that m-payments will have significant implications for the $300 billion cross-border remittance market. It also states that high mobile phone usage in the important ...
Purchase Issue MNO’s turn to direct top-up to counter declining prepaid ARPU
Vesta has announced results of an independent research study, indicating how an effective prepaid top-up strategy can deliver significant value to the prepaid mobile market.
Purchase Issue BOKU Acquires Paymo and Mobillcash
BOKU has announced its payments service for global consumers wishing to make online purchases of digital and virtual goods with their mobile phones. The company claims it is creating a new standard for ...
Purchase Issue Mobile Banking
Central Bank position on m-banking under fire
Even as the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) goes the extra mile to accommodate the innovative mobile money transfer concept, this has not gone down well with the banking fraternity.
Purchase Issue Raiffeisen Bank launches m-banking in Europe
Raiffeisen Bank Polska, a subsidiary of Raiffeisen International has deployed “VIP Mobile” a next generation mobile banking solution.
Purchase Issue Bangkok Bank launch m-banking
Fiserv is now providing its Mobile Money service to Bangkok Bank. The bank is one of the only banks in Thailand using an international mobile banking solution.
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