Sunday, June 3, 2012

M-Banking: 80 percent of global transactions made in East Africa

News1 new result for "Mobile Payment"
Smartphones get new duty — as wallets
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Eventually, customers who have the Isis Mobile Wallet setup on their mobile phones will be able to pay for things using it instead of a bank card at any store or venue that has a mobile payment system. "There's a huge opportunity there in terms of ...
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Blogs3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
M-Banking: 80 percent of global transactions made in East Africa ...
By Emmanuel Okoegwale
Several factors can explain the success of mobile payment systems in Africa, including a legal frame supporting innovation and a powerful distribution network, Ecofin News Agency reports. Another reason for their popularity the fact mobile ...
Mobile Money Africa
Cambridge Cluster - The Cradle of M-PESA was a skunkwork
By Philip
The second video shows attempts at mobile payment in a customer present scenario. You don't really need a mobile phone for that. A simple card, possibly NFC, will do. M-PESA can be and is used for customer present transactions but was ...
Cambridge Cluster
Nigeria Has 5M Visa Card Holders « Nkpuhe
By goafrit
... Consider These Factors While Developing Your Business Mobile Strategy p.ost.im/p/ens6Ur...1 day ago; MasterCard Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI) Shows Early Adoption For Mobile Payment In Nigeria p.ost.im/p/eW2hht...1 day ...
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NFC contactless payments move towards the mainstream

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NFC contactless payments move towards the mainstream
Banks, however, have been less confident in the technical security of NFC payments, particularly in the mobile device area, but these issues are being resolved.
www.computerweekly.com/.../NFC-Contactless-Payments-Mo...
Should retailers have a mobile payments strategy? - Mobile ...
For example, NFC mobile payments can streamline offer redemption by mobile- enabling sending the coupon, managing coupons and using the coupon at the ...
www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/opinion/columns/12953.html
MasterCard's Mobile Payment Rules | CFPB's New Regs For ...
Director Richard Cordray called prepaid customers "the most vulnerable among us" in announcing the move. Plus, we have insight from UniRush CEO Rob ...
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NFC retail payments set to explode, says Juniper mobile apps news ...
Rating: 1 in 4 mobile users will pay in-store using NFC By 2017, over one four 4 of Western European and USA mobile phone users will use an NFC-enabled ...
www.mobile-apps-news.com/nfc-retail-payments-set-to-explo...



Mobile Wallet Payments Will Increase Twelvefold by 2017

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Mobile Wallet Payments Will Increase Twelvefold by 2017
CSNews Online
Mobile payments are expected to exceed $180 billion worldwide by 2017, the report, called "NFC Mobile Payments & Retail Marketing: Business Models & Forecasts 2012-2017," added. The research firm predicted only 2 percent of in-store purchases would be ...
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UK's Post Office announced expansive mobile commerce plan

News1 new result for NFC Mobile Payment
UK's Post Office announced expansive mobile commerce plan
QR Code Press
The company has taken note of the growing popularity of mobile commerce, which is made possible through the use of NFC technology. NFC allows consumers to use their mobile devices to make payments for goods and services without having to make contact ...
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Mobile payments success hinges on security/customer care

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Mobile payments success hinges on customer care
FierceWireless
However, this forecast comes from Juniper Research, a respected market intelligence firm, claiming that more than one in four of US and Western European mobile phone users will pay for goods in-store using their NFC-enabled handset by 2017, ...
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4 Hot Mobile Trends You Should Follow Right Now

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Start-Ups Build the Mobile Payment Ecosystem
Mobile-Financial.com
Square has also recently expanded its offerings to include a new mobile payment app for consumers. People with the app can pay at any merchant with a Square mPOS without even swiping a card. Compared with the successful Starbucks Mobile app, ...
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Research and Markets: Worldwide Mobile Payment Market Marches Ahead Report ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Business Wire By Bruce Armstrong Come to New York and get yourself up to date with the Big Data revolution! As advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high-volume and/or fast moving data all move center stage, ...
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Gartner Projects Global Mobile Payments to Hit $171.5 Billion This Year
Mobile Marketing Watch
2012 will be a banner year for mobile payment transactions, according to a new report and corresponding projections from Gartner. Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will likely blow past $171.5 billion in 2012, which amounts to a 61.9 percent ...
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PayPal In-Store mobile payment app comes available for Android, UK for now
Android Authority
PayPal's In-App Store mobile payment app can now be used in some UK stores such as Oasis, Warehouse, Coast and Karen Millen. And PayPal promises to bring in more participating stores soon. Wondering how the app works? Here goes the simple steps.
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Android Authority
Utiba, Leading Provider of Mobile Financial Services Solutions, Expands ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Given the number of regional mobile payment projects the company is deploying, and the overall growth of the industry in the region, Utiba decided it made sense to locate more resources close to this growing customer base. After a careful analysis of ...
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4 Hot Mobile Trends You Should Follow Right Now
Business 2 Community
Mobile payment is one very hot trend most small businesses are ignoring right now, and it's costing them more than they'd have imagined. Mobile payment transactions has been predicted to exceed $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9% increase from what it was ...
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PayPal Appoints Mobile Exec Hill Ferguson Its New Global Product
AuctionBytes (blog)
Ferguson had led product management and marketing functions at Zong, which was a mobile payment service for digital goods merchants. Marcus himself headed mobile at PayPal before taking over following Scott Thompson's departure.
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AuctionBytes (blog)
ZooZ mobile payments: now available for web apps
Mobile Entertainment
"By enabling developers to deliver fully-featured native, HTML5, and hybrid mobile payment solutions via a single platform, we're accelerating the pace of app development and aggressively opening up huge business opportunities for both mobile ...
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Mobile Entertainment
Post Office becomes largest organisation to offer contactless payment
London Loves Business
"We have put a lot of energy and understanding into mobile payment," said Phillipson. "I think fast, easy and efficient payment not requiring cash is generally a good thing. "It speeds things up and it makes it easier to buy stuff.
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Ericsson, Aconite partner on mobile contactless payments
Telecompaper (subscription)
The service mainly targets banks wishing to issue contactless mobile payment applications. Other markets include organizations issuing access, ID, loyalty, ticketing and proximity marketing applications. Ericsson and Aconite will jointly offer ...
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Paris or London? Where is the best place to start… up?
The Independent (blog)
a mobile payment app start-up. The recent change of Government in France was also on the agenda. "Entrepreneurship and the need to push for it, was never really a founding theme for any of the presidential candidates," reflected Sakho, ...
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The Independent (blog)

Blogs9 new results for "Mobile Payment"
PayPal In-Store mobile payment app comes available for Android ...
By Arnold Zafra - androidauthority.com
Mobile payments may have gained some ground in the States.. but in the U.K. it has yet to make its mark. It seems like PayPal wants to be ahead of the.
Android Headlines
Will mobile phones replace your wallet?
By Web Ad.vantage
With services like Google Wallet and Amazon Mobile Payments becoming more commonplace, and a new breed of smartphones with built-in Near Field Communications (NFS) technology, mobile payment processing is a trend that is ...
The Web Ad.vantage Blog
iPhone 5 – An In Depth Outlook | Yaltchad
By Logan
It's reported the Google Wallet mobile payment platform could feature around the brand new one. Eric Schmidt accepted that Bing is searching to port the program with other producers. iPHONE 5 CAMERA. The new sony made your camera ...
Yaltchad
Massachusetts Startup: iCache Releases Digital Wallet For iPhone
By Kyle
ISIS, the collaborative effort by AT&T, Verizon Wirless and T-Mobile is slated for a launch sometime this summer. However, Friday, iCache, a Massachusetts based mobile payment startup has released their GeoCard and iCache Geode Wallet.
Nibletz The Voice Of Startups...
2012 Restaurant Marketing Symposium | Green Internet Group
By Dan Green
Join Seth Priebatsch for a fast-paced session on how a combination of mobile payment start-ups, the Durbin Amendment and a tipping point in consumer behavior will completely change the way we think about money, force credit card ...
Green Internet Group
Keith Rabois: Why Square's handcrafted approach to payments can ...
By Ryan Kim
Mobile payment start-up Square has built a huge following in part by appealing to artisans and creators of hand crafted products. But the company is not just serving those merchants, it's almost built in their image. The company has pushed a ...
GigaOM
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog: Ericsson and Aconite collaborate ...
By Maximus
As a carrier/operator payment broker with connections to more than 100 network operators, IPX provides delivery and charging, using direct billing, premium SMS, Web and online mobile payment. Customers include more than 1000 ...
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
Consider These Factors While Developing Your Business Mobile ...
By goafrit
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Beacon Podcast Episode 028 | Hurricane Labs
By patrick
Beacon ChromeOS Update, ChromeBox. Groupon Mobile Payment System Facebook Removes Chrome from Recommended Browsers Twitter site revamp. European Union Cookie Law SpaceX First Privatized ISS Docking. Hack of the Week ...
Hurricane Labs

Web3 new results for "Mobile Payment"
PCI council enlightens mobile payment security debate | Simply ...
An early set of data security best practices has emerged to guide mobile payment processing strategies.
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Mobile payment systems gaining some traction | Observer and ...
Digital shoppers have been using online payment systems such as PayPal and Google payments for years to pay retailers, or reimburse friends for small ...
www.hometownlife.com/.../Mobile-payment-systems-gaining-...
Mobile Payment « Visa's Blog – Visa Viewpoints
Pathways to an inclusive cash lite world. By David Porteous, Bankable Frontier Associates. David Porteous, founder and director of Bankable Frontier Associates ...
blog.visa.com/tag/mobile-payment/



UK Post Office to start rolling out NFC contactless payment system from June 6th

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UK Post Office to start rolling out NFC contactless payment system from June 6th
The Verge
The app allows customers to make payments using PayPal and their smartphone without NFC, using a traditional barcode system. Mobile payments have yet to rollout widely in the UK, but the Post Office support of NFC is a big win for the technology that's ...
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Mobile Commerce Market and Forecast 2012 - 2017

News4 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Report: a quarter of mobile users will pay using NFC by 2017
Mobile Payments Today
NFC has barely hit the market and yet many are willing to write it off as a technology to enable mobile payments. Not so fast, says Juniper Research. According to a new report from the UK-based research firm, NFC's future as a payment technology may be ...
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Ericsson and Aconite collaborate for mobile contactless payments
English: An NFC mobile phone (Nokia 6131 NFCme...
English: An NFC mobile phone (Nokia 6131 NFCmesso) interacting with a smart poster Русский: Мобильный телефон NFC (Nokia 6131 NFCmesso) взаимодействует со Smart Poster (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Voice & Data Online
Ericsson has announced its collaboration with Aconite to provide a service that securely delivers and remotely manages applications for consumer's NFC (Near Field Communications) enabled mobile phones. Together, Ericsson and Aconite will offer ...

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Mobile Commerce Market and Forecast 2012 - 2017
SBWire (press release)
The question is: will the NFC market respond to these alternatives and get organized, or will it continue on its own path? Demand for these services and related mobile money services, such as banking, domestic person-to-person payments, ...
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Over a quarter of European mobile users will pay in shops via NFC within 5 years
The Fonecast
Research from Juniper Research shows more than 1 in 4 of Western European and US mobile phone users will use an NFC-equipped mobile phone to pay in-store for goods by 2017. That's a dramatic increase on this year's total, which is expected to be less ...
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NFC Battle Recalls Betamax-versus-VHS Struggle

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One in Four to Use NFC Mobile Payments by 2017 | NFC Mobile ...
MobileMarketing Magazine Only this morning, we posted research which predicted that take-up for NFC mobile payments would remain low until after 2015.
epaymentnews.blogspot.com/.../one-in-four-to-use-nfc-mobile...
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Betamax (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
NFC Battle Recalls Betamax-versus-VHS Struggle
It's amazing how NFC mobile payments continue to divide opinions in the industry. While many players, such as Google Wallet and Visa, have already placed ...


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2012 Sponsors| GSMA NFC & Mobile Money Summit
The 2012 GSMA NFC & Mobile Money Summit sponsors are listed on this page. ... Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, ...
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iCache Geode claims title of first shipping iPhone e-wallet, asks 'who needs NFC?'

News3 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
iCache Geode claims title of first shipping iPhone e-wallet, asks 'who needs NFC?'
English: Logo of PayPal. Español: Logotipo de ...
English: Logo of PayPal. Español: Logotipo de PayPal. Русский: Логотип системы PayPal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Engadget
By Jon Fingas posted Jun 1st 2012 5:40PM Apple has been sending mixed signals as to whether or not it will bring NFC to the iPhone for mobile payments, but iCache clearly isn't waiting for the technology to show its face -- the company just started ...

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PayPal leads mobile payments push
IT Business Net
By GrabNetworks Mobile payments have been slow to take off in the UK, but the electronic payments company PayPal is just one of the names that sees great potential. Will Smith allegedly freaked out when someone on the Men In Black 3 set snapped a cell ...
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Identity Management Software supports NFC and QR codes.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- Vizibility Inc., provider of the online identity management platform for professionals and the enterprise, today announced the first-ever NFC Mobile Wallet Card as a standard feature for premium subscriptions.
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New PayPal app could beat out NFC in mobile commerce

News5 new results for NFC Mobile Payment
Report: Worldwide mobile payment transactions jump 62% to $171.5 bn in 2012
NFCNews
According to Gartner, NFC will take a back seat to other mobile payment technologies until 2016, when growth is expected to pick up. "NFC payment involves a change in user behavior and requires collaboration among stakeholders that includes banks, ...
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New PayPal app could beat out NFC in mobile commerce
QR Code Press
Mobile commerce is gaining traction around the world, driven by aggressive investments in NFC technology from some of the world's leading technology and financial companies. NFC allows mobile devices to be used as payment systems, enabling these ...
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Mobilis uses NFC, biometrics in new mobile wallet service
NFCNews (blog)
After the funds have landed the receiver's mobile wallet, the mobile subscriber can then use their phone to pay for goods and services, pay bills, and top-up airtime using NFC at the point of sale. According to Mobilis, the entire transaction, ...
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An Interview with the Mobile Panda, @black_man_x
Droid Life
I envision the line of what is considered mobile technology to be blurred beyond belief. Most people I know don't have home phones because they only use a cell phone. As services such as mobile payments, NFC and WiFi-direct become common, ...
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Droid Life
Shaping the future of mobile banking
Finextra
They can leverage their position as the mobile network operator just as groups like ISIS in the US and in the UK, Project Oscar (the NFC consortium made up of Vodafone, O2/Telefonica, Everything Everywhere) have done in the mobile payment space.
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