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Research from Finextra finds that banks around the world are looking to discounted offers and big data analytics to beat off the competition from telcos and tech start-ups as they battle for control of the consumer mobile wallet.
10 June 2013
Australia's communications and media watchdog is warning that regulatory incoherence could stunt the growth of NFC-based mobile payments in the country.
06 June 2013
Financial data and news giant Bloomberg has branched out into the venture capital world, launching a $75 million fund focusing on technology start-ups within its "broad area of interest".
05 June 2013
Despite the hype surrounding mobile payments, the consumer love affair with notes and coins will continue unabated for at least another decade, with cash usage remaining on an upward curve in many developed and developing countries, according to a study by Market Platform Dynamics.
04 June 2013
Kenya's Safaricom has embarked on a major overhaul of its M-Pesa mobile money platform which will dramatically increase processing capacity, enabling near real-time payments.
Ukraine's PrivatBank has released a conceptual video showing how the bank's mobile applications will be used by customers donning Google Glass.
03 June 2013
In what is becoming a trend in the fintech world, Barclays has taken top honours at a London hackathon, this time triumphing at a weekend-long event hosted by payments start-up Birdback at Google Campus.
The development of digital payment advisor (DPA) applications residing on customer smartphones and mobile devices has the potential to significantly disrupt the payment value chain states analyst group Gartner
31 May 2013
With regulatory scrutiny of virtual currencies intensifying, the world's largest bitcoin exchange, MT. Gox, is rolling out a new identification system for users.
Spanish corporate behemoths CaixaBank, Santander and Telefónica have agreed to set up a joint venture to develop a range of digital services, including a mobile wallet.
30 May 2013
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has released a Bpay QR code reader and card PIN and activation functionality for its popular CommBank Kaching app for iPhone.
Finextra TV/Innovation
Jonathan Williams, director of strategic development at Experian, talks to Finextra about mobile banking and identity.
Jeremy Light, executive principal at Accenture, poises the question: What else should global transaction banks be talking about at EBADay?
Having sat on the sidelines for years, banks are finally finding their voice in the mobile monetisation conversation, with several signing up to global trade association MEF, whose chairman, Andrew Bud, recently sat down with Finextra.
The use of social media by banks has 'plateaued', with the average spend stuck below EUR500,000 per annum, according to data from Efma and Wipro.
29 May 2013
Russian network operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has selected Gemalto's UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing system in the city of Novosibirsk.
NatWest is inviting customers to send a personalised video to remind friends and contacts about unpaid bills as part of a viral campaign to promote its mobile payments app.
Richard Williams, Consultant, at Market Gravity looks at several paradoxes that stymie innovation in financial services.
American Express and Groupon have joined existing investors to inject a 'double-digit million euro' sum into mobile point of sale outfit SumUp.
28 May 2013
John Broxis, director at EBA Clearing, calls for MyBank E-mandate Pilot Participants and discusses the importance of social inclusion in retail banking.
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