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10-Mar-10
Mobey Forum publishes white paper which examines the role of the secure element in the Mobile Financial Services ecosystem

Mobey Forum is a not-for-profit organization that brings together financial institutions, mobile network operators, mobile handset manufacturers, payment processors and vendors. Its goal is to accelerate the mass-market deployment of user-friendly mobile financial services by promoting open and secure technology standards. Mobey Forum has recently produced a whitepaper that describes “Alternatives for Banks to Offer Secure Mobile Payments”. . Read more...

02-Mar-10
Gates and MasterCard Foundations Partner with Opportunity International to Provide Financial Access to 1.4 Million of the Rural

$16 million program focuses on smallholder farmers . Read more...

02-Mar-10
McKinsey Quarterly: Getting more from prepaid mobile services (Registration Required)

As the industry matures, mobile operators won’t be able to count on a flood of new customers to fuel growth, so they must create more value from those they already have—including prepaid ones.. Read more...

26-Feb-10
Avoiding Mobile Madness: Mobile Finance and the Impact on Regulators

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25-Feb-10
Proximity Marketing - GSMA World Congress Recap Continued

After having a chance to review all the marketing brochures I collected at the GSMA conference last week I found one from a company focused on Proximity Marketing. Proximity marketing is not the same concept as mobile marketing, although both offer marketing capabilities via the mobile market. . Read more...

24-Feb-10
Mobile banking subscribers doubling every year: ABI Research

The global number of m-banking subscribers more than doubled between 2008 and 2009, and is expected to almost double again in 2010 . Read more...

23-Feb-10
Mobile Payment provider Mi-Pay raises £3 million from Octopus Ventures Ltd

Octopus Ventures Ltd ("Octopus"), one of the UK's leading investment companies in early-stage and expanding companies, has led an investment round of £3 million into Mi-Pay Ltd ("Mi-Pay" or "the Company"), a leading processor of payments for the fast-emerging mobile money sector.. Read more...

23-Feb-10
Zain launches an international air time top-up service for Kenya

Mobile telecommunications operator Zain has launched an international top-up service that aims at tapping into remittances for Kenya.. Read more...

23-Feb-10
Gates and MasterCard Foundations Partner with Opportunity International to Provide Financial Access to 1.4 Million of the Rural

$16 million program focuses on smallholder farmers. Read more...

23-Feb-10
Looking for an Operational Support System? Selecting the best product is only half the battle…

Article describes best practices to follow when evaluating and selecting operational support system solutions from software vendors.. Read more...

22-Feb-10
Mobile banking platform provider MShift files patent action against Digital Insight over mobile banking technology

MShift, Inc. has launched a patent infringement suit against Digital Insight Corporation as well as Digital Insight's customers. Community Trust Financial Corporation and Community Trust Bank are named as co-defendants. The action asserts that the mobile banking technology that Digital Insight provides its banking customers infringes on a patent awarded to mShift in 2005. MShift technology powers over 200 US Mobile Banking applications for some of the largest financial institutions in America, as well as for local banks and regional credit unions across the USA. . Read more...

22-Feb-10
Visa Appoints Wireless Industry Veteran from the GSMA to Lead Worldwide Mobile Innovation

Bill Gajda, currently Chief Commercial Officer at the GSMA, will join Visa as head of mobile. Read more...

19-Feb-10
Facebook To Accept PayPal Payments

Advertisers, gamers, and other users of the social network will have an easier way to pay for their online activities.. Read more...

19-Feb-10
Mobile Person-to-Person Payments Good Prospect for Developing but Not Developed Markets: ABI Research Survey Finding

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18-Feb-10
Visa and DeviceFidelity Collaborate to Accelerate Adoption of Mobile Contactless Payments

Alliance seeks to transform mobile phones into Visa mobile payment devices . Read more...

17-Feb-10
2010 Mobile World Congress: Day 2 of Mobile Money in Review from the GSMA's Paul Leishman

Paul Leishman from the GSMA's Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme blogs from the Mobile World Congress conference about key highlights from day two's mobile money sessions.. Read more...

16-Feb-10
Mobile Contactless Payments Trialled Live at Mobile World Congress 2010

GSMA, Samsung, Telefonica and Visa, with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, collaborate across industries to give Congress attendees an opportunity to experience NFC. Read more...

16-Feb-10
2010 Mobile World Congress: Day 1 of Mobile Money in Review

Paul Leishman from the GSMA's Mobile Money for the Unbanked programme blogs from the Mobile World Congress conference about key highlights from day one's mobile money sessions. . Read more...

15-Feb-10
Mobile donations raise $32M for the Red Cross and Haiti relief

The Red Cross's "Text Haiti" campaign has generated over $32M since Haiti's earthquake on Jan 12 2010. The campaign allows mobile subscribers in the U.S. to send $10 to the Red Cross through a text message. The donation is charged to the subscriber's mobile service bill. A $10 text donation can provide a family in Haiti with two water cans to store clean drinking water, basic first aid supplies or a blanket. The service is powered by the mGive platform from mGive.com. Read more...

15-Feb-10
Oberthur Technologies and Utiba Partner to Offer Secured Mobile Money Services and Mobile Money Transfer Solutions

Oberthur Technologies, a provider of smart cards solutions has partnered Utiba, a mobile commerce platform provider, to deliver secure mobile financial services to banks and mobile operators. The integrated Mobile Money Solution will combine Oberthur’s SIM offerings (OTA Server, Browsing Gateway, and Secured Gateway) with Utiba’s mobile commerce platform to deliver a suite of mobile financial services to banked and unbanked customers around the world. Mobile financial services to be enabled through the partnership include microfinance, domestic and international mobile money transfer, airtime transfers, and mobile banking.. Read more...