Ecosystem
iPhone Case Lets You Pay With Your Visa Card
May 18th
Instead of a chip, DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay iPhone case features a removable MicroSD card that stores and transmits your credit card information. To pay with your phone you activate a password protected iPhone application, and then hold your phone up to a scanner at any location that accepts contactless Visa payments.
Visa acquires CyberSource, positions itself for m-commerce
Apr 28th
By agreeing to acquire CyberSource for $2 billion in cash, Visa has become a direct player in the increasingly important area of payment processing for e-commerce and, crucially, m-commerce. Visa’s move is part of a trend among the card networks to branch out into new areas, secure future growth potential, and to avoid being blind-sided [...]
Nice to show-off NFC for Management World in May
Apr 27th
Just in time for this year’s TM Forum Management World in Nice is the news that travelers will be able to pay for low-value tickets on the city’s bus and tram network directly via their mobile phone bills. However, mobile operators say they are offering the payment service for consumer convenience, not to compete with [...]
Inside Contactless, TazTag and Sagem Orga partner on new NFC payment device
Apr 26th
Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag have announced the joint development of a new method of delivering near field communication, or NFC, payment functionality.
Inside Contactless said that based on TazTag’s TazCard, the new device is currently in prea-alpha testing and shows the feasibility of an option that facilitates NFC contactless payment transactions while providing full [...]
(It) Le nuove regole per l’offerta di servizi di pagamento
Mar 3rd
Dal sito di Banca d’Italia
Il 1° marzo 2010 entra in vigore il decreto legislativo 27 gennaio 2010, n. 11 – pubblicato sul Supplemento ordinario alla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 36 del 13 febbraio 2010 – che recepisce in Italia la direttiva 2007/64/CE sui servizi di pagamento nel mercato interno (Payment Services Directive – PSD).
Gli obiettivi di [...]
An Introduction to Mobile Money (from GSMA)
Feb 23rd
Article here
Mobile Money presents a significant opportunity for Operators to develop new revenue through uplifted ARPU. More significantly there has been a dramatic reduce in churn documented from Operators who have deployed Mobile Money offerings resultant from tying a consumers mobile to their banking account.
Figures from the Philippines published a World Bank and GSMA paper, [...]
The man who might teach google about private and secure Cloud Computing
Feb 19th
One thing it would mean is that all of your various devices – your mobiles, your tablet, your netbook, your desktop, your TV and so on – could be connected through that cloud computer. “All your devices can synchronize through your personal cloud computer,” he says. “All your devices can know about each other.”
Cash remains king but here comes the new wave
Jan 5th
Reports of the death of cash have long been exaggerated; despite years of talk, a cashless society eludes us. Yet it is slowly edging closer with debit card spending set to overtake cash spending, by value, for the first time in 2010 — internet payments accounted for one in four card transactions over Christmas.
Contactless payment, [...]
Swiss farmer tests unmanned NFC retail payments system
Dec 22nd
SCAN, CHECKOUT, PAY: Farm produce buyers serve themselves with NFC phones in an unmanned shop
A Swiss farm shop has installed a self-service NFC system which local shoppers can use to gain access to the shop, to scan RFID price tags and then pay for their purchases.
Eighty customers of a farm shop in the Zurich region [...]
