10-May-12
Visa President Bullish on Mobile Payments as V.me Goes Live

Visa President Bullish on Mobile Payments as V.me Goes Live. Visa's V.me is a digital wallet offering that carries a developer platform and offers payment processing for major credit cards in-store, online and through mobile shops, though at the start, the beta version is limited to online stores....

27-Apr-12
O2 to rival Google and PayPal with new mobile payments service

Mobile operator O2 has launched a mobile payments service that will allow consumers to pay for goods and services online, and transfer up to £500 daily to any UK mobile phone number using an iPad or smartphone.The application will rival Google Wallet, PayPal and Barclays PingIt, which all offer mobile payment services....

25-Apr-12
Mobile commerce on the rise

Mobile commerce in New Zealand is a "huge opportunity" and is likely to create a shift that would see decreasing foot traffic at bank branches....

24-Apr-12
Q&A: Sybase365’s Diarmiud Mallon - mobile to kill-off cash payments

Mobile payments are expected to send cash and paper invoicing the way of the dinosaur, but perhaps not in all the ways the industry expects. ...

23-Apr-12
FNB storming the telecoms castle

FNB storming the telecoms castle. Earlier this month (3 April 2012), the group reported that more than one million FNB eWallets have been created – with more than R1.6 billion paid into them since 2009....

16-Apr-12
Europe launches probe into mobile payments joint venture

The European Commission has launched an investigation into the mobile wallets joint venture between Everything Everywhere, O2 and Vodafone....

11-Apr-12
Payments Companies Making Mobile Wallets a Reality

Connected smartphones can take the place of any number of other items, including mobile wallets. It's already starting thanks to companies like Square, PayPal and Google. But it isn’t only big companies rushing to fill that need; the space is a point of focus for plenty of smaller players, too, many of which are trying to do something a little different than what’s already out there....

10-Apr-12
Is mobile the way we'll all be paying?

Alastair Lukies, the chief executive of Monitise, says business must catch up with the cashless customer. The cashless society has been a much-mooted concept ever since consumer credit cards were widely introduced in the 1950s. Now it seems that “mobile money” is the new gold rush....

10-Apr-12
Kenya: Mobile APPs Driving Growth of SMEs

Statistics show that more than 20 percent of Kenya's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is moving through M-PESA but there is a huge gap in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) adopting this huge driver of the economy. Kopo Kopo opened its Kenyan doors in April 2011 and has made great headway in helping SMEs to leverage mobile money service. ...