Consult Hyperion

19 results about this entity

Period: 13 May 2004 - 03 Sep 2024

M-payments to hit $1 trillion by 2017; mobile to become main way to pay in UK

International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts worldwide mobile payments will account for $1 trillion in value in 2017, up 124% from the less than $500 billion expected in 2015.

The race to develop a mobile POS app

David Hearn, software architect from financial services consultancy Consult Hyperion, describes how he built a smartphone enabled mobile POS for chip and PIN and mag stripe cards for the Microsoft Windows 8-based, Windows Phone at the Microsoft Digital Wallet Foundry hack-a-thon.

Consult Hyperion pilots Visa CodeSure cards for government services access

Consult Hyperion is running a pilot that will see people use Visa's CodeSure payment card - which includes an integrated PIN pad to generate one-time-use security codes - to access government services.

Singapore moves towards interoperable NFC infrastructure for m-payments

Authorities in Singapore have outlined plans to work with banks, telcos and payment processors to set up an interoperable infrastructure for contactless mobile transit and payments.

O2 to trial NFC wristband at music festival

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.

European consortium to establish framework for NFC applications

A pan-European consortium of banks, companies, universities and user groups is teaming up to develop an open architecture for the deployment of near field communication (NFC) technology on mobile phones.

Chip and PIN holds key to phishing threat - Consult Hyperion

UK banks are being urged to introduce two-factor authentication based around the Chip and PIN system to head off the increasing threat to online security from Internet-based phishing scams.