MPW ISSUE 134 July 31 2009
Analysis
NFC - A new beginning - Written By Peter Goldfinch, founder, Paycre8
The energy and commitment continues to build behind the deployment of mobile handset based NFC with new pilots almost being announced weekly. As we have seen in the past with new payment capability the ...
Purchase Issue Q & A
Building an operator-agnostic mobile money service - Kieron Osmotherly interviews Brad Jones, WING
WING Cambodia is one of the newest mobile payment services in the world (MPW 130). Cambodia has a population of 14 million, of which only 500,000 have a bank account, while there are over 3 million mobile ...
Purchase Issue Opinions
How to build sustainable regulation - By Hannes Van Rensburg, CEO, Fundamo
At the recent Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona there was much concern amongst the gathered parties over the unwieldy and inconsistent regulation being implemented around the globe with regards to mobile ...
Purchase Issue Contactless NFC
Contactless Debit begins Canadian roll-out
Interac Association, a Canadian payment network, has announced a partnership with INSIDE Contactless to develop chips containing the specifications for INTERAC’s contactless payment service, enabling ...
Purchase Issue Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks at Disneyland Paris
Customers of Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks in the Paris region can take part in a trial of both NFC and contactless card payments due to take place at Disneyland Paris from October.
Purchase Issue Cornèr Bank extends Swiss contactless reach
Cornèr Bank and Aduno, the Swiss retailer acquirer bank, have introduced contactless payment terminals at 20 retailers in Lugano. Visa payWave will allow payments under 40CHF ($36) in less than a second. ...
Purchase Issue MasterCard increases PayPass acceptance
MasterCard has announced that the sporting goods retailer, Sports Authority and The Home Depot will begin accepting PayPass at its 450 stores and 1,974 retail locations respectively across the US.
Purchase Issue RFinity launches near-field mobile payment system
RFinity is launching an offering that combines near-field transactions, mobile payment, and strong authentication and cryptography on mobile phones that it claims can be used for person-to-person and ...
Purchase Issue Zapa’s new payment services for European retailers
Zapa Technology has chosen Postilion to be the core payments platform for its new mobile prepaid top-up, loyalty, and gift card processing services for European retailers. Zapa will make use of contactless ...
Purchase Issue Akbank selects OTI for contactless program
On Track Innovations (OTI) has announced that Akbank of Turkey has selected OTI's Saturn 6000 reader for its newly-launched MasterCard PayPass contactless program.
Purchase Issue Mobile Payments
O2 launch O2 Money
O2, the UK telecom operator, has partnered with NatWest Bank to make its debut in the personal finance market with the launch of O2 Money, a new business within O2 that will seek to advance the increasing ...
Purchase Issue Telrock continues m-money expansion
Telrock has entered into a three year agreement with the Payment Management division of Capita. Telrock will provide its textDebit mobile text messaging platform to Capita’s client base, where it will ...
Purchase Issue Monitise Americas to launch P2P service
Monitise Americas has signalled its intention to launch a peer-to-peer money transfer product. Speaking to Money Transfer International, Monitise Americas CEO Lisa Stanton said that the company hopes ...
Purchase Issue Lattelecom launches Mobile ID in Latvia
Lattelecom and Valimo have commercially launched Mobile ID services in Latvia. Jointly deployed based on Valimo Mobile ID technology, the services bring Lattelecom’s customers a convenient and secure ...
Purchase Issue Vodacom launch M-PESA in Tanzania
Some 4.1 million Vodacom customers in Tanzania will soon be able to use their mobile phones to send money home and to loved-ones safely and securely with the M-PESA service. Vodacom planned to launch ...
Purchase Issue Masabi collaborates to push mobile finance in Africa
Masabi has successfully collaborated with mobile payments provider, Mi-Pay, to develop Street Vendor; a mobile transaction system that allows mobile operators, banks and other retailers providers to offer ...
Purchase Issue Masary builds out m-payments operations
Masary Egypt started its mobile commerce services operations the first week of June 2009 and just after one month of operation it managed to hire more than 100 merchant outlets in rural areas to distribute ...
Purchase Issue Mi-Pay secures further African success
Mi-Pay is building on its African achievements by confirming three new contract successes, which it expects to announce in detail over the next few months.
Purchase Issue The global m-commerce market - By Eckhard Ortwein, Area Vice President, EMEA, Sybase 365
In all markets, mobile users demand the best of all worlds—the convenience of a mobile phone combined with the entertainment value of new media content and the security of an online transaction. They ...
Purchase Issue US Consumers’ interest in using P2P growing rapidly
Javelin Strategy & Research has released a report that indicates financial institutions must act now to implement person-to-person (P2P) mobile solutions before telcos capture the market.
Purchase Issue Mobile cash market worth $7.9 billion by 2012
Phone companies are vying for the mobile-money business of nearly 2 billion people who lack access to banks, which could add up to $7.9 billion in sales for operators by 2012, according to the GSM Association ...
Purchase Issue Mobile Banking
Consumers not ready to pay for m-banking
According to the third annual Global Consumers and Convergence survey, conducted by KPMG among over 4,000 consumers from 19 countries worldwide, in spite of the fact that almost 60% of the consumers globally ...
Purchase Issue Iraq’s Asiacell moves into m-banking
Iraqi telco Asiacell has inked a deal with Amwal, a consortium of the country's private banks, aimed at letting customers manage their finances through mobile phones.
Purchase Issue Visa to offer real-time mobile alerts
Visa Europe has announces the trial of a new mobile service giving Visa cardholders instant transaction confirmation to their mobiles when they use their debit, credit, or prepaid card.
Purchase Issue ING pilots mobile phone app for card personalisation
Dutch bank ING has trialled technology from US vendor Serverside that enables people to see what a customised card would look like on their mobile phones.
Purchase Issue MPOS
WAY Systems launch pre-paid m-POS
WAY Systems has announced the launch of their pre-paid wireless version of the way5000. The new pre-paid way5000 is available through The Phoenix Group distribution.
Purchase Issue First National Merchant Solutions release the way5000
First National Merchant Solutions and WAY Systems have announced the availability of the way5000, a pocket-sized, mobile POS device for businesses on the go. First National Merchant Solutions will support ...
Purchase Issue Ingenico launches contactless mobile payment terminal
Ingenico has announces the launch of the EFT 930 Mobile “Colour Contactless” payment terminal, combining contactless technology with a colour screen – paving the way for the development of new POS services.
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Purchase Issue Mobile ticketing for Germany’s railways
Hypercom says that three of the major regional rail transit operators in Germany are now using Hypercom’s Artema Modular unattended payment terminals with GPRS to speed ticketing in more than 370 trains ...
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