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A news service of PaymentsSource and American Banker

  • India Citibank-MasterCard NFC Pilot Yields A Few Clues On Mobile Coupons

    PaymentsSource | March 11

    One of the world’s largest trials of Near Field Communication payments, which Citigroup Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide launched last year in India, provided a glimpse into the challenges of incorporating merchant-sponsored product discounts and coupons within mobile payments.

  • Ireland’s WorldNet Debuts Virtual Terminal For IPhones

    PaymentsSource | March 10

    WorldNet, an Ireland-based online payment gateway, says its virtual payment-terminal application released this week for Apple Inc.’s iPhone is the company’s first, and it plans to add chip-and-PIN capability to the software in later versions.

  • Firethorn Mobile Application Enables Account Access At More Than 3,700 Institutions

    PaymentsSource | March 5

    Firethorn Holdings LLC is offering consumers free access to their accounts at more than 3,700 financial institutions through a single mobile application, according to the Atlanta-based mobile-service provider.

  • VeriFone Gaining Mobile Merchants With iPhone App

    PaymentsSource | March 3

    Merchants appear to like VeriFone Holdings Inc.’s PayWare mobile-phone payment service on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and their customers are completing big-ticket purchases using the devices.

  • Nokia, Yes Bank To Conduct Mobile-Commerce Pilot In India

    PaymentsSource | March 3

    Nokia Corp. plans to team up with Mumbai-based Yes Bank to plot Nokia Money, a mobile-commerce platform, in India, a Bangalore-based official at the Finnish Handset Maker tells PaymentsSource.

  • Noor Islamic Launches Region's First Arabic Mobile-Banking Service

    PaymentsSource | March 2

    Noor Islamic Bank plans launch the United Arab Emirates’ first mobile Internet-banking service in Arabic, the Dubai-based bank announced on March 1.

  • For USAA, Less Is More with Security

    American Banker | March 2

    It sounds counterintuitive: USAA Federal Savings Bank's customers will soon access a more-secure mobile banking service by entering less information.

  • Mocapay Rolls Out Mobile-Payment Platform

    PaymentsSource | March 1

    Mocapay Inc., a Denver-based mobile loyalty and gift card technology company, last week unveiled a platform enabling merchants to give customers a one-time authorization code to conduct point-of-sale payments from prepaid accounts using mobile handsets.

  • At Citi, Mobile 'Karma Points' Bring Nirvana

    American Banker | February 26

    Citigroup Inc. is evaluating a new mobile service that monitors where people do their shopping, but has no actual banking functions.

  • China Unicom Plans To Officially Launch NFC Service

    PaymentsSource | February 25

    China Unicom will officially launch its Near Field Communication service later this year in Shanghai, confirms a Shanghai-based official from the nation's second-largest mobile network carrier.

  • MShift Sues Digital Insight For Patent Infringement On Mobile Banking Technology

    Credit Union Journal | February 23

    MShift filed suit in federal court in San Francisco Friday claiming Digital Insight is infringing on its patent for the company’s pioneering mobile banking technology that Digital Insight is providing to hundreds of credit unions and banks.

  • European Mobile-Payments Provider Mopay Expands To U.S.

    PaymentsSource | February 23

    Mopay Inc. has announced plans to expand its global presence. Under the initiative, the Germany-based mobile-payments company hopes to enable U.S. consumers to purchase virtual goods and other digital content using their mobile-phone accounts, the company notes in a recent press release.

  • Visa Hires Top Wireless Trade Association Exec To Head Mobile Payments

    PaymentsSource | February 22

    Visa Inc.’s announced hiring today of Bill Gajda, a top global wireless carrier trade association executive, to lead its mobile-payments initiatives could help the network brand cut through some of industry-sector obstacles blocking mobile-payment development, observers say.

  • Hana, SK Telecom Venture To Launch Mobile-Payment Service In South Korea

    PaymentsSource | February 22

    Hana Card Co. and South Korea-based telecommunication operator SK Telecom Co. plan to launch a mobile credit card payment service in March under a new joint venture, an official from the credit card company tells PaymentsSource.

  • Mocapay Tapped For Mobile Micros

    American Banker | February 18

    Mocapay Inc. said last week that Micros Retail Systems Inc. would use the Boulder, Colo., vendor's technology to add mobile access to Micros loyalty programs.

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