MPW ISSUE 99 May 17 2007
News
UK banking industry confirms cross-industry contactless roll-out
On the back of the recent Visa announcement regarding its contactless payments offering payWave the UK banking industry has confirmed plans for the national introduction of contactless technology on UK ...
Read More Visa Europe launches Visa payWave
Visa Europe has announced its plans to launch Visa ‘payWave’, formally ‘Visa Wave’, contactless card payments in the UK capital starting in autumn 2007 in partnership with its member banks including HSBC, ...
Read More Visa payWave launched in Turkey
Visa Europe and Denizbank have announced the first application of Visa payWave contactless technology in Turkey. With a transaction time of less than a second, the contactless trial will begin using the ...
Read More RBS and MasterCard ready for London roll-out
Following hot on the heels of Visa and to coincide with the announcement by APACS that the UK banking industry is gearing up for the launch of contactless payments in the UK, Royal Bank of Scotland Group ...
Read More Kentkart launches Debit/Credit contactless public transport reader
Turkish based Kentkart has deployed what they claim is the world’s first online contactless Credit/Debit Card accepting Validator (reader) in the Turkish public transport sector, partnering with Garanti ...
Read More Europe's first watch with PayPass
MasterCard has launched Europe's first watch equipped with PayPass, in partnership with Garanti Bank in Turkey.
Read More First Data investment in ViVOtech
First Data Corp has made a strategic investment in ViVOtech and will use ViVOtech’s collection of emerging technologies that include NFC terminals and mobile commerce enablement. First Data’s investment ...
Read More Momentum for Visa innovations
Visa says it has reached a significant milestone for its new payment technologies, adding a major issuer and merchant to the list of organizations adopting Visa payment innovations, while preparing to ...
Read More AOL launches m-payments with Obopay
Obopay has announced the availability of a new plugin for users of AOL's AIM service, the largest instant messaging community in the US. This new plugin allows eligible AIM users to launch Obopay and ...
Read More Cellular South launches m-payments
US telco Cellular South has announced the availability of Obopay’s mobile payments solution on Cellular South handsets. Cellular South customers can now instantly receive, send and spend money directly ...
Read More mFoundry and Sprint launch m-banking
mFoundry has a formal agreement with Sprint that will bring mobile banking and financial services to Sprint customers with Vision or Power Vision phones, enabling them to check their bank balances, transfer ...
Read More eCommLink and First Bank offer m-payments for the prepaid card industry
Las Vegas-based eCommLink and issuer First Bank & Trust (First Bank) in South Dakota are to partner with mCASH and its technical arm telSPACE to create a mobile phone and branded virtual payment card ...
Read More Fronde Anywhere expands to meet demand
In response to growing demand from retail banks and the wider financial services industry, Fronde Anywhere, a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of Fronde Systems Group, has launched its mobile banking, ...
Read More KDDI formalize m-banking business
KDDI Corporation and Mitsubishi-Tokyo-UFJ Bank jointly established the Mobile Net Bank Development Corporation in May, 2006 in preparation for the two companies to launch a mobile 'New Bank'.
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The Business Phone in joint venture
The Business Phone has announced the formation of The Business Phone (Gulf) to market and sell secure mobile payment solutions across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the company's headquarters ...
Read More Hitachi uses biometrics for security, payment and navigation
AuthenTec says its AES1510 fingerprint sensor will be a standard feature on Hitachi’s new flagship “win” series phone, the W51H.
Read More Al Rajhi Bank Selects Hypercom
Hypercom says that Al Rajhi Bank has agreed to purchase more than 4,000 Optimum dial-up and wireless card payment terminals. Dial-up, Bluetooth and GSM-enabled terminals will enable the bank to extend ...
Read More Leading vending companies push contactless
MasterCard and USA Technologies say that six of America’s most prominent vending companies are installing e-Port cashless payment technology on their vending machines to accept PayPass cards and devices. ...
Read More Yahoo! brings mobile search to Britain
Yahoo! has expanded the reach of its mobile search service, Yahoo! oneSearch beta, to consumers in Britain.
Read More Leeds to adopt parking by mobile
Leeds City Council is launching Parkmobile’s mobile phone parking solution to provide motorists with an alternative method of paying for their parking charges in the City’s pay & display car parks.
Read More London hails contactless taxi payments
Barclaycard Business and taxi firm Computer Cab have unveiled what they claim to be the first contactless payment system for taxis, writes vnunet.com.
Read More Opinions
Who owns the customer? Who cares!
By Terence Trench, senior vice president of commercial operations at Upaid
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