Analysis

Over the past month we have observed a number of important mobile wallet developments. Announcements from Wells Fargo, Visa and Apple have highlighted the growing competition among FIs, merchants and third-party service providers. Despite these...

Through the medium of their interbank company Banksys, the Belgian banking community entered into a cooperation agreement with Mobistar, the second biggest Belgium-based wireless network operator, in June 2002. The first application, to be launched...

Bitcoin’s features come with many security concerns…so how secure is a bitcoin transaction really? In fact, bitcoin verifies transactions with the same state-of-the-art encryption that is used in military and government applications. Here’s a...

The Mobile Payments and Fraud Survey: 2017 Report is the fifth edition of this annual study which seeks to understand and measure the state of mobile payments and mobile channel fraud. Now with five years...

Accertify recently commissioned a study of 'connected' US adults - or those with access to both a smartphone and a web-enabled computer - to learn more about how consumers perceive and are affected by...

Corporates are under increasing pressure to be more efficient and their expectations of their banks are changing as a result. Banks need to be innovative to meet client expectations. Virtual accounts can be part of...

Country Operator/s Project Austria Mobilkom Austria, A1 Bank Subsidiary of Mobilkom of Germany; owns A1 Bank which in turn owns 49% of Paybox in Austria; subscribers can buy OBB railway tickets, flowers and cinema tickets...

Visa and MasterCard are staking out sharply different positions in the emerging area of 'proximity payments' - defined as a payment where the card account data is 'beamed' across a wireless interface at a...

The European Central Bank, (ECB), regulator of the euro currency system, is taking a close interest in the development of mobile payments, a senior official has confirmed. Speaking at the EFMA conference in Paris at...

Over the past few years, the payment landscape in India has mirrored developments occurring in the global payments arena, albeit with a time lag. Although the digitisation of payments in India is a recent...