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Transport for London (TfL) is teaming with handset manufacturer Nokia and phone network O2 to develop a scheme that will enable customers to pay for tube journeys using mobile handsets.
27 November 2007
PayPal has released Mobile Checkout - which enables customers to pay for purchases using Web-enabled phones - to account holders in Australia.
23 November 2007
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is conducting trials of mobile contactless debit payments technology at its Edinburgh headquarters ahead of a public pilot next year.
Norwegian banking group DnB Nor is partnering with MasterCard and local telco Telenor to launch a public trial of near field communications (NFC)-based contactless mobile payments technology.
22 November 2007
Card payment network Visa is working with UK m-banking outfit Monitise to develop a mobile pre-paid account service for the European market.
20 November 2007
Silicon Valley-based KeyPoint Credit Union has teamed with mobile banking outfit MShift to develop an application that enables customers to access their Web accounts from within online social networking site Facebook.
15 November 2007
Firethorn, an Atlanta-based provider of mobile banking technology has agreed to be acquired by US wireless technology developer Qualcomm in a deal worth around $210 million.
14 November 2007
The GSMA - an international trade group of mobile operators - says trials of NFC-based contactless mobile payment technology will be conducted by 12 telcos around the world over the next few months as a precursor to the launch of commercial services.
The number of US customers using mobile banking services will accelerate over the next five years, rising from 1.1 million in 2007 to more than 40 million by 2012, according to forecasts from TowerGroup.
Silicon Valley-based contactless payments outfit Vivotech has launched a mobile marketing package that enables merchants to broadcast advertisements and promotions to consumers via 'smart posters' featuring NFC tags.
13 November 2007
MasterCard says it is launching a near field communications (NFC)-enabled mobile payments platform in Japan that will enable Japanese consumers to use its 'tap and go' contactless PayPass technology around the world.
The use of SMS authentication to access Web banking services fails to protect people from hackers and fraud, according to research conducted by The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia which found that human error remains one of the biggest risk factors.
09 November 2007
Canadian banking group RBC is teaming with Visa to launch a pilot of mobile payments technology that will allow customers to pay for purchases using handsets.
01 November 2007
The popularity of mobile payments is set to rocket over the next few years, with the value of the market rising from $77.6 million in 2007 to $11.5 billion in 2011, according to a report from Juniper Research.
31 October 2007
California-based mobile banking outfit mFoundry has secured $15 million in a series c financing round led by handset manufacturer Motorola and including strategic investors PayPal and NCR Corporation.
24 October 2007
Bank of Ireland (BoI) has added a range of new functions to its Internet banking service, 365 Online, following a EUR10 million investment in the site.
23 October 2007
US bank Wells Fargo has launched a text message banking service which complements the browser-based mobile banking application it launched earlier this year.
22 October 2007
Money transfer operator Western Union is teaming with mobile phone operators to develop a system that would enable customers to use their hand sets to conduct cross-border fund transfers.
19 October 2007
US banking group BB&T is using technology from Californian vendors ClairMail systems and mFoundry to introduce mobile banking services to its customers.
17 October 2007
LogicaCMG is teaming with Dutch supermarket chain C1000 to launch pilot trials of a mobile debit payment system that will enable shoppers to use NFC-enabled handsets instead of plastic debit cards to pay for purchases.
08 October 2007
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