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<< Previous | Next >> June 29, 2009Lloyds customers can get their bank balance by text messagePeople who bank with Lloyds TSB will be able to find out their balance by sending a text message, the company has announced, reports The Telegraph.
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June 22, 2009New security standards for mobile payments comingAccording to Cellular News, a financial services technology group is developing standards for making secure mobile payment transactions.
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June 15, 2009Mobile money to poor seen $5 billion market in 2012
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May 28, 2009Will Mobile Shoppers Want to Ring Up Purchases?Would you be comfortable using your phone to purchase big-ticket items, such as round-trip tickets to Tokyo? Or front row seats at a Beyoncé concert? Billing Revolution, a mobile payment start-up based in Seattle, thinks so. Bits Blog reports.
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May 27, 2009Japan's DoCoMo eyes cash transfer by cellphoneJapan's top mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it aimed to launch a new service enabling cash transfers simply by entering the recipient's cellphone number. Reuters reports.
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May 14, 2009MasterCard’s MoneySend To Go Live This Month In U.S.
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April 13, 2009Visa Introduces a Credit Card on a Phone
This week Hansell explains how Visa's cellphone payment system is more than sticker-thin. The service is currently available only in Malaysia, but it will be expanded to other countries in coming years.
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March 25, 2009Nokia invests in mobile money Obopay
There are signs the mobile payments market is really taking off at last with Nokia announcing a substantial investment in service provider Obopay today, reports the FT.
March 16, 2009Phone banking service launched in Africa, MideastSouth African mobile phone operator MTN on Monday said it was launching a banking service on mobile phones in 21 African and Middle East countries where access to traditional banks is poor. Yahoo Tech reports.
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New SMS Receipts Service Makes Mobile Banking More SecureThe latest tool to fight identity theft may already be in your pocket - it's your mobile phone. Using a new solution from Clickatell a mobile messaging service provider, consumers can be alerted to suspicious bank transactions via text message. The service called Clickatell SMS Receipts notifies banking customers of account activity via SMS alerts. With this real-time information, consumers are instantly able to verify legitimate use of their account or detect fraud. [via ReadWrite Web] emily | 3:31 PM | permalink
March 12, 2009Deutsche Bank to Roll Out Mobile Payments to 80 CountriesDeutsche Bank's Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division has announced that it is introducing mobile phone payments services to its clients in 80 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Cellular News reports.
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March 1, 2009Mobile banking will take off over the next 5 years
February 28, 2009Visa in Hot Water Over SMS Alert Service
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February 22, 2009Help for poor to access banking
Related: - Bill Gates grant to extend mobile banking to poor emily | 11:14 AM | permalink
February 17, 2009Bill Gates grant to extend mobile banking to poorMicrosoft founder Bill Gates has agreed to help fund a massive rollout of projects enabling poor mobile phone users to transfer money using their handsets, an industry body announced Tuesday. From Yahoo Tech.
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February 15, 2009Kenya, Turkey, Japan lead mobile money trend
January 29, 2009SMS loans are becoming a national problem for Estonia
Related: -- Mentally ill person can take a SMS-loan in Estonia -- Young Estonian became a drug mule for a large SMS loan -- Finns struggling with SMS loans -- Loans by text message send young Swedes spiralling into debt -- $300 Loans by Simply sending a Text Message -- SMS loans could be ruining your Christmas season -- Finland Should Ban Late-Night SMS Loans, Justice Ministry Says emily | 7:56 AM | permalink
January 26, 2009PayPal deploys SMS authentication system in UKPaypal has launched an SMS-based authentication system for UK users, which texts a unique code to the customer's mobile phone for them to use when logging in to their account. [via Finextra]
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January 25, 2009Cellphones as Credit Cards? Americans Must Wait
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January 17, 2009Juniper Research: Mobile banking users to exceed 150 million globally by 2011The number of mobile banking users will exceed 150 million globally by 2011, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Intomobile reports.
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November 11, 2008Finland Should Ban Late-Night SMS Loans, Justice Ministry Says
Related: - Finns struggling with SMS loans emily | 5:03 PM | permalink
October 31, 2008MasterCard gets the ball rolling on US cell phone paymentsIn parts of Japan, all you have to do in order to pay for something is wave your cell phone. MasterCard is now working on getting the ball rolling for a similar system here in the US, but actually getting equipped phones into the hands of the public will be the real challenge. [via ars technica] emily | 12:47 PM | permalink
October 24, 2008Young Estonian became a drug mule for a large SMS loanBaltic Business reports that police and custom officials arrested an Estonian who arrived to Tallinn Airport with 700 grams of pure cocaine in his stomach.
Related links to articles on loans by text messaging. emily | 9:23 AM | permalink
September 26, 2008Visa Unveils Massive Mobile Payment PlansVisa unveiled several partnerships on Thursday to move payment processing from the PC to the mobile phone, reports PCMag. "Visa said a partnership with Nokia would allow consumers to make payments with next year's Nokia 6212 Classic and other next-generation Nokia phones. Visa will also develop an application with Google's Android platform that will allow mobile payments, as well as deliver financial information to Android-based phone owners who also hold Chase Visa cards. Visa also said that it would launch a trial with U.S. Bank and up to 6,000 cardholders to allow secure funds transfers to other Visa cardholders via mobile phones and PDAs. Finally, the credit merchant said that it was expanding its ReadyLink pre-paid service. " emily | 6:26 PM | permalink
September 24, 2008New step in mobile phone banking
"Lloyds TSB will next month be the first to allow customers to transfer funds between accounts within the same bank via their mobile. The software already exists which would allow people to make payments to other people's accounts, but the banks have chosen to bring in this system slowly. ... The system, run by a mobile money network called Monilink, also allows parents to top up the credit on their children's pay-as-you-go mobile phones via their own. A text alert service for when customers are within £50 of their balance limit is also in place. This new development will allow consumers to download some simple software to phones with internet access and a colour screen. They will then enter a six-digit security code before they can view their balance or transfer money between their own Lloyds TSB accounts. " emily | 6:03 PM | permalink
August 26, 2008Mexicans to use cell phones to pay stores and taxisMexicans will soon be able to pay for small purchases such as restaurant meals and taxi rides using their mobile telephones, the country's banks said on Monday, writes The Washington Post. "Telephone operators such as Telefonica and Iusacell are teaming up with big banks such as Citigroup and BBVA to launch the new service. Cell phone users will be able to have their bank link their savings account to their telephone so they can make payments to participating stores, restaurants and taxis by sending a text message." emily | 8:30 AM | permalink
July 25, 2008Mobile banking boosts MaldivesThe small Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives has begun setting up a pioneering system which it hopes will make it one of the first countries whose citizens bank primarily using mobile phones, reports the BBC. All the country's banks have been brought together under a single system to allow the islands' residents to pay money in and out swiftly without the need to travel to the nearest branch - which could be many miles away. The Maldives received a US$7.7m loan from the World Bank in April, allowing it to begin establishing m-banking. It was seen as an ideal place to start up, with a relatively high GDP and lots of people with mobile phones. " emily | 4:06 PM | permalink
July 17, 2008Australians switched off to phone technologyAustralians are among the most reluctant people in the world to use mobile phones for online banking and shopping, research has found. News.com.au reports. "In a survey of people in 14 countries on their attitudes towards using mobile devices for making payments and banking, only the French and the British were more suspicious of the technology. ... The research by Unisys found 78 per cent of Australian respondents would not use a mobile phone to pay a bill, shop or bank online. In France it was 86 per cent, Britain 79 per cent, Belgium and Italy 77 per cent and in the US 71 per cent. " emily | 1:58 PM | permalink
Finns struggling with SMS loans
"The Finnish Justice Minister set up a group in October to probe text lending. In the first half of the year, Finland's courts issued 15,500 orders for text borrowers to repay loans, 63 pct more than a year earlier. 40 percent involved borrowers under 25. Finland has more than 40 SMS loan providers, and the industry is spreading. " Related: -- Loans by text message send young Swedes spiralling into debt -- $300 Loans by Simply sending a Text Message -- SMS loans could be ruining your Christmas season emily | 1:44 PM | permalink
June 18, 2008Cash in hand: why Africans are banking on the mobile phone
"For consumers in developed markets, using a mobile phone for banking services is a smart add-on to a bank's branch network. But to people in the developing world, the arrival of mobile banking - or m-banking - is potentially revolutionary. "If money is an economy's lifeblood, improving its circulation plays a critical role. Many Africans living in rural areas, for instance, rely on money sent home by members of their family who work in towns and cities. But getting that cash to a village that could be hundreds of miles away is a tricky business. In Kenya, for example, workers in urban areas hand wages over to bus drivers, who promise to stop off at the worker's home village en route to their destination. ... Services have sprung up that let people transfer cash by text message to other mobile phone users and give Africa's vast number of "unbanked" their first access to financial products. Instead of using a bank branch, these services rely on local retailers who already sell mobile top-up cards." Read full article. emily | 8:16 AM | permalink
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