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Payments Council project will enable mobile payments from any account
The ability to send mobile payments using just a mobile phone number should be open to everyone, according to the Payments Council’s latest mobile payments project update. The Payments Council is building a central database that will allow customers to link their mobile phone number to their account details, regardless of who they bank with. [...]
NFC-Capable SIM Cards for Italy’s First Mobile Payment Pilot Project
Munich-based Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is supplying NFC-capable SIM cards to Nòverca, an MVNO, for Italy’s very first pilot project for mobile payments launched by Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments in the northern Italian cities of Milan and [...]
Mastercard Partnership Program for Mobile Money Services
Mastercard have announced a global initiative called the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program to help more than 2.5 billion financially-underserved consumers worldwide gain access to formal financial services through their mobile phones. MasterCard is working with preferred platform partners Comviva, Sybase 365 and Utiba to enable consumers to purchase goods and services via their mobile [...]
Business service within Escher Group looks to NFC
Escher Group Holdings plc(Escher) today announced the formation of a new business (Escher InteractiveServices) within the group to focus on Near Field Communications (NFC) and the provision of managed services. Escher was established in 1989 and has customers in 32 countries across the globe and is the largest supplier of transaction processing software to [...]
Ericsson announces new m-commerce portfolio ahead of MWC 2012
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, Ericsson unveils its new extended suite of m-commerce solutions and services, designed to accelerate access and interconnection between the emerging m-commerce eco-system and the financial world to fast track the next generation of mobile financial services. Ericsson is launching two new services within its m-commerce portfolio – Ericsson Converged [...]
SMARTRAC Joins the OSPT Alliance as Full Member
The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT™) Alliance today announced that SMARTRAC, a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of RFID transponders, has joined the OSPT Alliance. As a full member of the Alliance, SMARTRAC will participate in the Alliance’s activities around the development of next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE™ open security [...]
Defining Control Points within the Mobile Wallet Ecosystem
Mobey Forum has released a white paper entitled: ‘Control Points in Mobile Wallets’,which analyses how the rollout of the mobile wallet will be dictated by the various stakeholders involved in its development and deployment. The paper identifies seven key areas, or ‘control points’, within the mobile wallet ecosystem that will influence the delivery of the [...]
Infographic on how NFC can change our world.
Orange Business Services have just published a great little Infographic on their blog that describes how they believe that NFC technology will change the world in which we live. It’s well done and worth a look… If you want to see the original post you can see it here










