CIBC in Canada has expanded support for its mobile payments app from BlackBerry-only to Android devices, as wireless partner Rogers receives approval to incorporate as a bank.
A power outage at payments processor Tsys caused Visa's network in Canada to go down Monday, leaving customers throughout the country unable to use their cards.
Canadian bank CIBC, telco Rogers and handset maker RIM are running a print magazine ad featuring embedded NFC in a bid to promote the technology and its use in their new mobile payments service.
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a global market leader in secure technologies, is serving as the Trusted Service Manager (TSM) for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in their offering of NFC credit card payment services to their customers.
Canadian bank CIBC and telco Rogers have roped in Olympic gold medal-winning triathlete Simon Whitfield to carry out the country's first NFC mobile credit card payment.
EnStream, the Canadian mobile-commerce joint venture created by Bell, Rogers and Telus, has offloaded its Zoompass mobile money service to pre-paid and virtual card management outfit Paymobile.
Tsys (TSS) announced today the introduction of its Near-Field Communication (NFC) capabilities in North America in preparation of a launch with CIBC.
CIBC today announced it has launched powerful new text message (SMS) customer Alerts, continuing its leadership in mobile financial services.
Canada's CIBC is joining forces with telco Rogers to develop a national NFC-enabled mobile shopping service.
CIBC, the first bank in Canada to deliver a mobile banking app in 2010, today announced the launch of a Mobile Banking App designed specifically for the iPad.
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