Analysis

SEMOPS (Secure Mobile Payments), a 15-company consortium representing banking, telecommunications, IT, consulting, research and retail commerce, including Motorola, Deloitte, Vodafone, Raffeisen Bank and Oberthur, is to introduce an electronic payment service. SEMOPS is a global...

According to the World Payments Report, global non-cash transaction volumes grew 11.2% during 2014–2015 to reach 433.1 billion, the highest growth of the past decade, and slightly above last year’s prediction. Two regions fuelled...

Mobey, the forum investigating business models and requirements for m-commerce, is validating a software-based solution which enables users to perform mobile banking services with their current mobile handset. It will be available for global...

More electronic records were breached in 2008 than the previous four years combined, fuelled by a targeting of the financial services industry and a strong involvement of organized crime, according to the '2009 Verizon...

Trustwave has released the 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2014. The report discloses how much criminals can profit from malware attacks, which data they target, how they...

The market for banking in sub-Saharan Africa has developed slowly. The majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa (as many as three in every four) are still unbanked, meaning that their experience with formal financial...

Deutsche Bank has published a paper, 'Digital economy and structural change,' by Stefan Heng, looking at m-payments and their alternatives. Following is MPW's summary; the full version is available at www.dbresearch.com Business via the internet...

FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Network of the US Treasury, has turned its attention to virtual currencies after releasing a new guidance note on the management and usage of virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Facebook Credits and others. However,...

According to industry insiders, the latest consultation paper for the European Commission's e-money directive has been sent out for comment and some of the content appears to be surprising. To re-cap: currently e-money is defined...

Informa Telecoms & Media has released its annual Mobile Market Status report for 2007, which includes detailed insight from Informa's principal analysts on the future of the mobile market and a barometer of industry...