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The UK's direct banks are outperforming their high street rivals when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to a survey conducted by consumer group Which?
01 August 2007
Hong Kong-based Wing Lung Bank is using authentication technology from Thales to provide its retail customers with secure access to Internet banking services.
30 July 2007
US banking group Wells Fargo has launched a browser-based mobile banking application that allows customers to check balances, view their transaction history and transfer funds between eligible accounts using their hand sets.
24 July 2007
Citibank is launching a new service in Malaysia that will enable its customers to pay bills using their mobile handsets.
20 July 2007
California-based mobile payments start-up Obopay has raised $29 million in a third round of funding that included Citi and Société Générale as new investors.
12 July 2007
Mobile applications outfit Masabi has been recruited by UK-based YourRail, which provides e-ticketing technology to rail operators, to provide a mobile ticketing system.
According to a new study from ABI Research, the market for mobile fund transfers will grow to a revenue opportunity of nearly $8 billion for wireless operators by 2012, from just over $10 million last year.
11 July 2007
Juniper Research predicts that P2P fund transfers and mobile payments in the developing world, together with the commercialisation in 2009 of NFC (Near Field Communications) based m-payments will generate transactions worth approximately $22bn.
10 July 2007
UK wireless operator Vodafone is to offer subscribers direct access to their finances through a link with the MoniLink mobile banking network.
09 July 2007
Vodafone and Nokia are calling for a new regulatory framework to encourage transactions by mobile phones in developing countries.
04 July 2007
Mobile devices embedded with chips will replace plastic payment cards over the next five years and will be used to make payments by around 50 milllion customers, according a study by Javelin Strategy and Research.
29 June 2007
California-based mobile technology outfit mFoundry says it has extended its Spotlight financial platform so the system can be used to implement wireless banking applications on Apple's new iPhone.
28 June 2007
Wells Fargo and Visa are to undertake a public trial of mobile payments technology with up to 500 customers in the fourth quarter of the year.
27 June 2007
MasterCard says over three quarters (75%) of customers that participated in a NFC mobile phone PayPass pilot programme preferred the contactless technology to traditional contact-based cards and made payments more often.
26 June 2007
The US subsidiary of South Korean mobile payments company Danal has received $9.5 million in venture financing led by Morgenthaler Ventures.
22 June 2007
Verizon, the number two US wireless carrier, is to offer consumers the opportunity to make purchases and conduct person-to-person funds transfers via their mobile phones using technology from privately-held Obopay.
21 June 2007
UK high street bank Lloyds TSB is to launch a new mobile phone text service designed to keep customers informed of the progress of mortgage applications.
13 June 2007
UK bank Alliance & Leicester is to pay younger customers £10 for signing up to its mobile banking services.
12 June 2007
Mobile telecoms firm O2 is launching a trial of near field communications (NFC) technology at a music festival later this month that will see select guests given a crystal-studded wristband embeded with the contactless technology.
08 June 2007
UK systems house Morse has disclosed plans to raise £20 million by spinning off its Monitise mobile banking unit and selling shares in the newly formed company, which will be listed on London's junior AIM market.
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