Mobile Payments

Mopay Now Allows You To Bill Mobile Payments To A Landline Account

Mobile payments company mopay is launching a new technology, mopay call, that allows online merchants to allow consumer to bill purchases to their land line phone accounts. Like competitors Zong and Boku, mopay’s platform doesn’t require users to have a credit card or bank account to make a micropayment. Users enter their cell phone number, reply to a text message and then all virtual charges are automatically charged to the user’s monthly cell phone bill.

iPhone Case Lets You Pay With Your Visa Card

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.

China UnionPay initiates mobile payments alliance

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China UnionPay card network operator has launched an initiative to organize a group of national banks, wireless operators and handset makers to form a mobile payments industry alliance in a move to make the sector be more standardized and regulated.
According to the official statement members will be working to promote mobile payment business adopting [...]

Garanti Bank and Avea start a new period in payment systems with their NFC technology work.

Garanti Bank, which is the leading name of payment systems sector in Turkey, and Avea, which is the GSM operator that makes its subscribers talk most in Turkey, effectuate NFC – Near Field Communication technology in all mobile phones for the first time in Turkey and the world. The new SIM cards having NFC technology [...]

Visa acquires CyberSource, positions itself for m-commerce

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 [...]

TagAge supports NFC pilot in Frankfurt

RMV (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH) and VGF (Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main GmbH) are launching a new service for Frankfurt’s public transportation. By using a combination of QR codes and NFC technology, passengers can find real time schedules, online information about connections, special events or points of interest. Hansaprint with its TagAge service has supported this innovative six-month [...]

Inside Contactless, TazTag and Sagem Orga partner on new NFC payment device

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 [...]

CASSIS TSM Platform Powers Alliance Bank’s You:nique Picture Card Service

SINGAPORE – (AllPayNews) CASSIS International, a leader in trusted services for smart payments, mobile commerce and near field communication (NFC), today revealed its role in helping Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad achieve success with its ground-breaking You:nique Picture Card which received a special mention for product innovation at the recent IDC 2010 Financial Insights Innovation Awards. [...]

(It) Circuiti di pagamento

Il circuito di pagamento, associato alla carta di pagamento, non è altro che la compagnia che si occupa di propagare, attraverso una propria rete di comunicazione, le richieste di spesa, e le rispettive autorizzazioni, dall’esercente all’istituto emittente, e viceversa. Il circuito si occupa anche di verificare le operazioni di saldo, ovvero di contabilizzazione e parificazione [...]

(It) Le nuove regole per l’offerta di servizi di pagamento

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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 [...]