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Californian m-payments outfit Obopay has launched a new plug-in for AOL's instant messaging service (AIM) which enables users to launch the P2P application and transfer funds to their AIM "buddies".
14 May 2007
The UK's Post Office has launched an electronic money transfer service that allows recipients to receive funds using a barcode sent to a mobile phone or e-mail address.
09 May 2007
First Data has led a series C funding round in US contactless payments outfit Vivotech.
03 May 2007
Japanese telco KDDI and Mitsubishi-Tokyo-UFJ Bank have joined forces to launch a mobile Internet banking business later this year.
30 April 2007
A voice-verified authentication system for mobile and Internet payments has been launched in the UK by Nick Ogden, the founder of online payments operator WorldPay.
UK systems house Morse is to spin off its mobile banking arm Monitise and list the business on the AIM junior market.
24 April 2007
Analyst group JupiterResearch has found that despite renewed efforts on the part of financial institutions, overall interest in mobile banking services is limited.
A WiFi network accessible by the 350,000 people who live and work in the Square Mile has been switched on by wireless broadband provider The Cloud and the City of London Corporation.
23 April 2007
Texas-based money order firm Fidelity Express is teaming with e-payments outfit Cyphermint to launch a service that will enable its customers to pay bills using their mobile handsets.
20 April 2007
The Mobey Forum, a bank-backed mobile payment consortium, has signed up Dutch banks ING and Rabobank and mobile operators Telenor, TeliaSonera and SK Telecom as new members.
16 April 2007
UK e-payments outfit PayPoint is introducing a mobile-phone-based loyalty scheme that will allow shoppers to receive money-off coupons via SMS text messages.
13 April 2007
The majority of Internet users are more concerned with getting identity safeguards for online banking than being reimbursed for losses, according to a US survey conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research and commissioned by Authentify.
04 April 2007
US retail bank Citibank has launched a mobile banking application, called Citi Mobile, that customers can download to their hand sets.
03 April 2007
HSBC is using a bluetooth server in its busy London branches at Canary Wharf and Regent Street to send unsolicited messages to members of the public in the area.
02 April 2007
Visa USA president and CEO John Coghlan has called for closer collaboration between the payment card and mobile industries in order to realise the full potential for convergence between the two markets. The call comes as the card company unveils strategic investments in mobile software firm Ecrio and the .mobi consortium.
29 March 2007
Monitise, the mobile banking subsidiary of UK IT services group Morse, is teaming with American fintech vendor Metavante to launch and operate a wireless payments and banking network in the US.
27 March 2007
US mobile telco Cellular South is teaming with phone manufacturer Kyocera Wireless to launch a multi-city consumer trial of NFC-enabled wireless wallet technology.
23 March 2007
Belgian payments network Banksys is teaming with wireless network operators Base, Mobistar and Proximus to launch a system for consumers to pay for high street purchases via mobile phone rather than by cash or bank card.
20 March 2007
Vodafone is teaming with German rail operator Deutsche Bahn to develop and implement a mobile phone-based electronic ticketing and payment service called Touch&Travel.
16 March 2007
US e-payments firm First Data is teaming with Germany's NCS to offer mobile payment processing services to its merchant and banking customers worldwide.
15 March 2007
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