MPW ISSUE 137 October 17 2009
News
Microsoft m-payments system
Microsoft and M-Com are working together to develop BankAnywhere, a mobile payment system that would link mobile phones to banks' back-end services.
Purchase Issue NAB and Visa in contactless payments push
National Australia Bank (NAB) and Visa have embarked on a major roll-out of contactless payments readers that will see 2500 delivered to merchants by Christmas.
Purchase Issue PR Bank continues innovation
The Philippine Rural Banking Corporation PR Bank has partnered with RBAP-MABS, along with the support of G-Xchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, for its Mobile Phone Banking Services (MPBS) ...
Purchase Issue Nacha to rewrite rule book for mobile payments
US electronic payment association Nacha is proposing amending its rules to cater for an expected surge in mobile payments processed over the national ACH network.
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MMT Explained – M-Paisa Afghanistan
M-Paisa launched in Afghanistan in 2008, primarily as a vehicle for microfinance loan disbursements and repayments. Since then it has evolved to offer domestic P2P transfers, bill and salary payments, ...
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Atos Origin first to receive EMVCo Level 1 certification for contactless
Atos Worldline has received the EMVCo Level 1 Contactless Approved Interface Modules certification for its XENTA contactless reader, making it the first terminal provider worldwide to receive this certification.
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Purchase Issue AT4 wireless on Test Tool Development
AT4 wireless, a wireless testing service has been selected to partner with the NFC Forum in the development of equipment for compliance testing to the NFC Forum Digital Protocol specifications.
Purchase Issue GALITT meets Visa requirements for contactless
Contactless payment schemes are expanding throughout the world and many projects are now moving to rollout. Originally supported by a set of terminal vendors focusing on this emerging technology, contactless ...
Purchase Issue CardWare International selects CHARGE Anywhere
CHARGE Anywhere has announced the completion of a distribution agreement with CardWare International. The agreement allows CardWare International to enrich its partner portfolio with industry leading ...
Purchase Issue INSIDE supplies MobiNear
INSIDE Contactless has announced a technology partnership to provide critical NFC technology to Paris-based MobiNear.
Purchase Issue CHARGE Anywhere new releases
CHARGE Anywhere has announced a new release of its mobile card payment software application. Overall enhancements include a new user friendly graphical interface with large icons and a blue design theme.
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Purchase Issue Contactless NFC
Update on Citi pilot in India
Dion Lisle, executive VP, Citi Growth Ventures based in Singapore, provided some interesting insights into what will make NFC a commercial reality and Citi’s pilot in Bangalore. He was speaking at the ...
Purchase Issue Indian Railways gets smart
Indian Railways, the world’s second largest rail network carrying 18 million passengers daily, has embarked on an ambitious programme to adopt contactless smart card technology for its unreserved ticketing ...
Purchase Issue Contactless VPAY debit card payments via mobile
Visa Europe, Credito Valtellinese, and Key Client Cards & Solutions have announced the first mobile payments trial in Europe using TELLCARD - Credito Valtellinese’s contactless V PAY debit product.
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Purchase Issue Patent for mobile electronic wallet technology
Tyfone has announced it was awarded a second patent - US 7,581,678, which is entitled “Electronic Transaction Card” - for its innovations in smart card-based electronic wallet technology.
Purchase Issue INSIDE and CONNECTHINGS team on NFC
INSIDE Contactless and CONNECTHINGS, a pioneer in providing systems that deliver contextualized services and content based on location and time, have announced a partnership to give NFC the intelligence ...
Purchase Issue Mobile Payments
M-Commerce's big moment?
It's never been easy making m-commerce predictions. Researchers who tried to forecast how much we would spend on goods and services via mobile phone came up with all sorts of projections that were wide ...
Purchase Issue 1 in 3 have tried m-commerce reveals ATG survey
A consumer study of mobile commerce habits from ATG (Art Technology Group), reveals that 38% of UK consumers have tried to shop online from their mobiles, but 28% of those who have tried it find it a ...
Purchase Issue Amazon Mobile Payments Service
Amazon Payments has announced the availability of the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments ...
Purchase Issue Starbucks m-payment App
Starbucks has launched its ‘Starbucks Card Mobile App’ on the Apple App Store.
Purchase Issue Mobile Banking
Wells Fargo launches customer-to-customer money transfers
Wells Fargo has announced its new mobile customer-to-customer payment option, which allows its customers to transfer money to each other via the Wells Fargo Mobile Banking service.
Purchase Issue M-banking survey reveals untapped market in ‘offline’ consumers
A survey of more than 500 US mobile phone users suggests that financial institutions should mine the untapped market of offline-banking consumers as a potential target audience for mobile banking and ...
Purchase Issue ClairMail’s V4.0 m-banking platform
ClairMail has announced Version 4.0 of its mobile banking platform designed to help financial institutions realize the strategic potential of mobile banking.
Purchase Issue Zain extends m-banking services in Africa
Zain has announced an enhancement of Zap, its rapidly expanding mobile banking service currently available to over 100 million people in East Africa and run in partnership with CitiBank and Standard Chartered ...
Purchase Issue Banco De Oro expand m-banking deal
Smart Communications and Banco de Oro Unibank have signed a deal expanding their mobile phone banking venture.
Purchase Issue Laxmi Bank brings m-payments to Nepal
Nepalase Laxmi Bank has introduced payments through mobile phones under the brand Mobile Money.
Purchase Issue MPOS
TransFirst release the way5000
WAY Systems and TransFirst have released the way5000, a credit, PIN-Debit, low-cost, pocket sized mobile POS device. The way5000 will be fully supported and sold throughout the TransFirst sales network.
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Purchase Issue UK Boroughs extend PayByPhone initiatives
The UK’s Elmbridge Borough Council became the first local authority in the country to roll out Verrus UK’s new customer facing branding using the PayByPhone identity when it launched the service in eight ...
Purchase Issue Mobile Remittance
Safaricom links with UK’s Vodafone for cross border mobile remittances
Kenyans will nowy be able to send and receive money to the UK through Safaricom’s M-pesa in the company’s first commercial cross-border transfer service whose details will be announced later this week.
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Purchase Issue Maxis launch MMT service via Western Union
Western Union and Maxis, Malaysia's leading mobile communications service provider, say they are working together to launch a service that would allow Maxis subscribers to send cross-border remittances ...
Purchase Issue MoneyGram to introduce MMT
In addition to MoneyGram’s traditional money transfer network dominated by financial institutions, post offices and retail businesses, MoneyGram expects to add local mobile network operators as agents ...
Purchase Issue Mi-Pay predicts positive future
Mi-Pay remains positive about the mobile money market and predicts that the next five years will bring new services, players and greater financial freedom to the world’s poorest populations.
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