There are already some 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world (as of February 2014) and 2.6 billion are smart phones. It's a very fast-growing market: the number of smart phones…
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The presentation by Barclays Head of UK Corporate Payments, Mike Walters, at the Association of Corporate Treasurers Cash Management conference on 13-14 February was an important review
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The UK is one of the strongest digital commerce markets in the world, as in 2012, B2C e-commerce sales in the country have increased 14.4 percent to GBP 77.35 billion, up from GBP 67.60 billion in the previous year,
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Paying a friend or business on your mobile as easily as sending a text is set to become a mainstream option in spring 2014, when the UK's Payments Council's new mobile payments service launches in the Spring.
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In a little over a year since its launch, HSBC's corporate mobile banking service has been used to authorise USD6 billion worth of payments worldwide, including a single payment of USD50m. This is another example of
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Square is being installed in all Starbucks US stores, iZettle launches in UK, and PayPal is going global with their mobile solution. However, collecting payments from mobile phones is still not that easy, as the rec
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The US mobile payments and analytics company Bango, which allows customers to make payments on their mobile phones, which are then charged to their monthly phone bill, has just made its mobile payment platform avail
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In his fascinating talk with BNY Merllon’s Michelle Palombo the AFP Annual conference, Jeff Paradis described why they decided to accept insurance premium payments by mobile. It fitted with their payment strategy: 1
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The infrastructure for mobile payments is growing world-wide. The latest example is where the Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo and South Korean peer KT Corporation have agreed plans to enable their customers to
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Citi has achieved a milestone in its strategic plan to provide mobile enablement of its key client platforms.
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Mobile banking payments for the big four banks in Australia hit about A$10 billion worth of transactions last month alone:
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Launched in the UK earlier this year, Pingit is a person-to-person payment service that enables people to send and receive money using mobile phone numbers.
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Old fashioned personal service is returning to the point of sale (POS) using a combination of mobile phones, iPads and the card schemes.
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mopay, a global provider of online payment solutions, today announced the successful completion of its large-scale network extension initiative in the Middle East & North African (MENA) region.
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The iPad is the world's most commonly used mobile device for payments, with users spending on average 20 percent more per purchase than on other mobile devices, according to a research conducted by Adyen, a provider
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EBay's CEO believes an inflexion point in retailing is occurring. Consider:
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Square were the first to develop an adapter (1) to enable the mobile phone to accept card payments(2), and also convert the iPad (3) and the iMAC (4) into a POS terminal:
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BOKU, Inc. and GlobalCollect , the leading provider of online payment services in the eCommerce market, announced today GlobalCollect has selected BOKU as its global mobile payments partner.
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New initiatives for mobile phone payments are announced every day, here are some recent ones:
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PayPal has signed deals with four major UK high street retailers to enable PayPal account holders
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The HSBCnet Mobile service has one the largest coverage of any bank mobile service - in 65 countries world-wide. In the first 25 weeks since its launch, it was used to authorise USD 1.7bn of payments. Altho
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Barclays Pingit smart phone application for consumers to transfer cash between bank accounts simply by using phone numbers, see Figure, is now available to corporate clients to make and receive payments.
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Recent statistics from the UK and the USA reveal some important features of cards at the point of sale, confirming that debit card dominations is growing and that the role of the credit card is for higher-value tran
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RDM Corporation, a developer of specialized software and hardware products for electronic payment processing, now offer Android support in their Simply Deposit Mobile® service.
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The BARX FXPay settlement solution has been built for online retailers who have to collect 100s and often 1000s of low value payments each day, particularly at weekends, sometimes in their customer's local currency.
