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Money transfer operator Western Union is teaming with two telcos in the Philippines - Globe Telecom and Smart Communications - to develop and pilot mobile international remittance services.
30 January 2008
US Bank is partnering with handset manufacturer Nokia and MasterCard to test mobile phone payments for purchases under $25 in Spokane, Washington.
28 January 2008
India's ICICI Bank has launched iMobile, a mobile banking platform that enables customers to use their handsets to transfer funds and pay bills.
21 January 2008
California-based mobile payments start-up Obopay has struck deals with six banks and three telcos in India ahead of the launch of its mobile debit service in the country in February, according to local press reports.
09 January 2008
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is using technology from Silicon Valley-based NFC outfit Vivotech for its trial of contactless mobile phone payments, which is being conducted in partnership with MasterCard.
08 January 2008
Around 25% of mobile subscribers will regularly use wireless banking services by the end of 2009, compared to around seven per cent now, according to a survey of mobile operators conducted by Boston-based consultancy Aite Group.
20 December 2007
US electronic payments association Nacha has formed a new work group that will develop an ACH payment platform strategy and guidelines for mobile banking.
13 December 2007
Digital cash outfit Ukash is partnering with Vodafone to offer its debit and credit card alternative via mobile phones.
06 December 2007
Indian mobile payments company PayMate is targeting the growing cross-border remittance and unbanked markets in North America by opening a new office in California.
04 December 2007
Card security outfit MobiClear has signed business travel account firm TheCard Scandinavia to technology that enables customers to use mobile handsets to authorise transactions and "switch off" credit and debit cards.
Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell has teamed with Telefonica to launch a marketing campaign that uses bi-dimensional code technology (2D code) to deliver promotional videos on customers' mobile handsets.
Money transfer operator Western Union is teaming with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to develop a mobile international remittance system in India.
30 November 2007
Bank of America says it has signed 500,000 customers to its mobile banking system in the six months since the service was launched.
28 November 2007
Barclaycard is to use the forthcoming pilot of the mobile Oyster transit scheme in London to launch a trial of mobile payments technology. The bank says it will credit 225 of the 500 phones to be used in the Oyster pilot with £200 worth of non-reloadable funds for making low value contactless payments at participating retailers.
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
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