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Card security outfit MobiClear has signed business travel account firm TheCard Scandinavia to technology that enables customers to use mobile handsets to authorise transactions and "switch off" credit and debit cards.
04 December 2007
Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell has teamed with Telefonica to launch a marketing campaign that uses bi-dimensional code technology (2D code) to deliver promotional videos on customers' mobile handsets.
Money transfer operator Western Union is teaming with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to develop a mobile international remittance system in India.
30 November 2007
Bank of America says it has signed 500,000 customers to its mobile banking system in the six months since the service was launched.
28 November 2007
Barclaycard is to use the forthcoming pilot of the mobile Oyster transit scheme in London to launch a trial of mobile payments technology. The bank says it will credit 225 of the 500 phones to be used in the Oyster pilot with £200 worth of non-reloadable funds for making low value contactless payments at participating retailers.
Transport for London (TfL) is teaming with handset manufacturer Nokia and phone network O2 to develop a scheme that will enable customers to pay for tube journeys using mobile handsets.
27 November 2007
PayPal has released Mobile Checkout - which enables customers to pay for purchases using Web-enabled phones - to account holders in Australia.
23 November 2007
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is conducting trials of mobile contactless debit payments technology at its Edinburgh headquarters ahead of a public pilot next year.
Norwegian banking group DnB Nor is partnering with MasterCard and local telco Telenor to launch a public trial of near field communications (NFC)-based contactless mobile payments technology.
22 November 2007
Card payment network Visa is working with UK m-banking outfit Monitise to develop a mobile pre-paid account service for the European market.
20 November 2007
Silicon Valley-based KeyPoint Credit Union has teamed with mobile banking outfit MShift to develop an application that enables customers to access their Web accounts from within online social networking site Facebook.
15 November 2007
Firethorn, an Atlanta-based provider of mobile banking technology has agreed to be acquired by US wireless technology developer Qualcomm in a deal worth around $210 million.
14 November 2007
The GSMA - an international trade group of mobile operators - says trials of NFC-based contactless mobile payment technology will be conducted by 12 telcos around the world over the next few months as a precursor to the launch of commercial services.
The number of US customers using mobile banking services will accelerate over the next five years, rising from 1.1 million in 2007 to more than 40 million by 2012, according to forecasts from TowerGroup.
Silicon Valley-based contactless payments outfit Vivotech has launched a mobile marketing package that enables merchants to broadcast advertisements and promotions to consumers via 'smart posters' featuring NFC tags.
13 November 2007
MasterCard says it is launching a near field communications (NFC)-enabled mobile payments platform in Japan that will enable Japanese consumers to use its 'tap and go' contactless PayPass technology around the world.
The use of SMS authentication to access Web banking services fails to protect people from hackers and fraud, according to research conducted by The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia which found that human error remains one of the biggest risk factors.
09 November 2007
Canadian banking group RBC is teaming with Visa to launch a pilot of mobile payments technology that will allow customers to pay for purchases using handsets.
01 November 2007
The popularity of mobile payments is set to rocket over the next few years, with the value of the market rising from $77.6 million in 2007 to $11.5 billion in 2011, according to a report from Juniper Research.
31 October 2007
California-based mobile banking outfit mFoundry has secured $15 million in a series c financing round led by handset manufacturer Motorola and including strategic investors PayPal and NCR Corporation.
24 October 2007
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