The GSMA today announced that executives from ARM, Best Buy, China Mobile, Citigroup, ISIS, Juniper Networks, Sprint and VimpelCom will be speaking in the
Recently, the CGAP Microfinance Blog hosted a series on the role that public funders can play to promote branchless banking. The series was launched in
This is the first post in a five-part series about product innovation in branchless banking.
The promise of branchless banking is increased access to finance for
Some months ago, MTN announced a new payment initiative that has been launched in South Africa in collaboration with Standard Bank and Nedbank (Read here).
As regular readers of this blog will know, we are excited about the developments that we’re seeing in branchless banking in Pakistan, which have led
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Big advancements underway in mobile NFC
Near Field Communication (NFC) wasn't a big topic at the Consumer Electronics Show, but it's still going to be a big force.
The new mobile standard, which allows for sending secure data in a contactless and powerful way, is just beginning to make strides in the smartphone market.
And that
PayPal raises mobile payments prediction to $7 billion in 2012
One of the quickly growing trends in tech that didn’t have a very prominent showing at CES 2012 this week is mobile payments.
Nevertheless, there were plenty of major players in this field on hand throughout the show floor, including Visa and Intuit.
PayPal also made a mark on the
Finextra and Mobey Forum to stage European mobile banking and payments conference An influential panel of senior executives, practitioners and key stakeholders from across the mobile banking industry will gather inBarcelona on 21 March to debate the key issues facing banks, telecoms carriers and handset manufacturers as they bid to provide smartphone-toting consumers with a new generation of mobile banking and payments apps.
IT-business divide harming mobile banking security
Application delivery firm Akamai has called on financial institutions to review their business and IT alignment to ensure they don't fall victim to cyber attack, arguing that new digital channels are increasingly being launched by banks without a sufficient IT strategy behind them.
The calls came in a new
Pushing Mobile Payments
Sprint Nextel Corp. this week tripled the number of smartphones it offers with a seldom-used technology for tap-and-go payments, as the carrier
and its rivals try to convince a reluctant public to make mobile payments mainstream.
Sprint, which announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that it will
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Near Field Communication (NFC) wasn't a big topic at the Consumer Electronics Show, but it's still going to be a big force.
The new mobile standard, which allows for sending secure data in a contactless and powerful way, is just beginning to make strides in the smartphone market.
And that
An influential panel of senior executives, practitioners and key stakeholders from across the mobile banking industry will gather inBarcelona on 21 March to debate the key issues facing banks, telecoms carriers and handset manufacturers as they bid to provide smartphone-toting consumers with a new generation of mobile banking and payments apps.
Application delivery firm Akamai has called on financial institutions to review their business and IT alignment to ensure they don't fall victim to cyber attack, arguing that new digital channels are increasingly being launched by banks without a sufficient IT strategy behind them.
The calls came in a new
Sprint Nextel Corp. this week tripled the number of smartphones it offers with a seldom-used technology for tap-and-go payments, as the carrier
and its rivals try to convince a reluctant public to make mobile payments mainstream.
Sprint, which announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that it will
