06-Feb-12
Comment: How 2012 will change the way we pay

This time last year, there were two new e-commerce channels everyone was talking about – social and mobile commerce, and 12 months on mobile commerce has really taken off. ...

06-Feb-12
Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete

Mobile payment apps work to make wallets obsolete. Google argues that its NFC-based Wallet app is a big step forward for a few reasons. A single tap replaces not just the payment, but also the exchange of receipts, coupons and loyalty points. ...

06-Feb-12
Learning from Kenya: Mobile money transfer and co-working spaces

Since Africa is trying to solve problems that we in the Western world do not have, it’s tempting to say that innovation there isn’t really relevant to us. But upon visiting Africa, one realizes that to ignore its recent innovations is a big mistake....

02-Feb-12
Who Needs a Bank Branch When You've Got a Mobile Phone?

There's a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place right now. Banks will be disenfranchised, losing direct relationships with customers as banks adapt to becoming pervasive providers of bank products and services, when and where you need them....

02-Feb-12
Vodafone to introduce loan repayment, money transfer services soon

Vodafone to introduce loan repayment, money transfer services soon....

31-Jan-12
With Square card reader, T-Mobile lets ‘cash-only’ shops take plastic

T-Mobile USA is teaming up with Square Inc. to offer a mobile payment device for small businesses that have not in the past accepted credit card payments from customers....

31-Jan-12
Starbucks Says It's Number One in World in Mobile Payments

Starbucks founder, Chairman and CEO Howard D. Schultz said mobile payment and mobile commerce is going to change the way in which consumers buy things, and he said Starbucks was the number-one company not in the U.S., but in the world, in terms of mobile payment, transactions and dollars....

31-Jan-12
OBOPAY DEBUTS MOBILE-PAYMENT SERVICE IN UGANDA

Obopay has teamed with Warid Telecom to launch a mobile banking and payment service in Uganda. It will be called Warid Pesa...

31-Jan-12
Luup wins Leaders in Innovation Award

Financial-i and independent experts credit Luup for its game changing mobile payment solutions...

30-Jan-12
FIS and mFoundry Strengthen Strategic Relationship

FIS Expands Relationship, Increases Stake in Mobile Financial Services Leader...

30-Jan-12
Canada's Payfirma Updates Its Mobile Payment App in a Big Way

he mobile payment app now has a sleeker design, real-time sales summary, location tagging, and supports multiple languages...

30-Jan-12
How LevelUp aims to shake up mobile payments

If retailers don't have smartphones to use in the store, LevelUp and T-Mobile are partnering to offer them for a monthly fee. ...

30-Jan-12
Tabbedout Names Paul Fiore as New CEO Veteran technology and financial services executive brought on to manage rapid growth

Fiore brings more than twenty years of executive leadership experience in the technology and financial services industries to Tabbedout....

13-Jan-12
Big advancements underway in mobile NFC

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....

13-Jan-12
PayPal raises mobile payments prediction to $7 billion in 2012

PayPal is expecting to nearly double what it saw in mobile payments volume in 2011 to nearly $7 billion for 2012....

13-Jan-12
Finextra and Mobey Forum to stage European mobile banking and payments conference

Finextra is partnering with the bank-backed Mobey Forum to launch MobeyDay, a new one-day conference for the European mobile banking and payments industry....

12-Jan-12
San Francisco Launches NFC Payment for All Its Metered Parking

The PayByPhone system, already in use at 250 of the city's metered spaces, enables drivers with NFC phones to make payments by tapping their handsets against a parking meter....

12-Jan-12
Mobile Payments in the Philippines: Future Opportunities for Growth

Mobile payments in the Philippines provides future future opportunities for growth. Mobile money providers have an opportunity to move customers away from existing payment options, to persuade customers to use their services in addition to their current payment provider, and to target segments not currently served by formal payment providers such as personal direct payers and users of informal service providers....

12-Jan-12
Tapping the Unbanked Market

Wireless carriers, money-transfer vendors, and other stakeholders are poised to bring mobile banking services to North America's unbanked....

11-Jan-12
Mobile Financial Services and the Emerging Global Middle Class

How Mobile Technology Is Broadening Financial Access in Less-Developed Countries While Driving Business Opportunities for Global Companies....