m-payments
RSS m-paymentsPayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive
News PayPal, eBay's well established but aging mechanism for online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation of online commerce possibilities. At an event for press and developers on Thursday, PayPal and its... [24 Jul 2009]
Mobile payments: Standalone systems blocking the way
News Take-up of mobile payments is being held back by the lack of interoperability between banking systems in Europe, analysts believe. According to a new report by financial services researchers Celent, incompatible systems... [22 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet E-crime investigations are also undertaken by the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit, which is funded by the payments industry body, UK Payments Administration. Bless you, that's not swine flu is it? [20 Jul 2009]
$5bn of mobile money destined for the poor
News The scope of mobile financial services in these markets has grown quickly from simple cash transfers by text message to payments for everything from a taxi ride to a utility bill. The market of mobile financial services... [15 Jun 2009]
How smartphones, netbooks will change the future of money
News Companies have been developing mobile banking and e-payments options for a number of years, but the future is looking more complicated as higher bandwidth and more sophisticated devices such as netbooks and smartphones... [30 Mar 2009]
£250k to help police ID stolen phones
News Earlier this month, mobile operator Orange and financial services company Barclaycard announced a long-term strategic partnership to develop m-payments technology including mobile wallet handsets.... [17 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News Mobile operator Orange UK and credit card company Barclaycard have announced a long-term strategic partnership to develop m-payments technology including mobile wallet handsets. The pair said they will... [09 Mar 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News A Barclays spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Monday that there had been extensive third-party testing of the contactless system, and said that security risks around contactless payments had been mitigated. [03 Mar 2009]
Brits still not that into contactless payments
News The survey which was commissioned by payments company Ingenico was based on the responses of 1,000 consumers in England, Scotland and Wales. An O2 trial last year of mobile contactless tech for travel and small value... [12 Feb 2009]
Mind the mobile broadband cash gap
News Operators should also look to launch a combination of micro payments and premium value added services to enable third-party content producers to develop, market and sell services to users. According to analyst Strand... [11 Feb 2009]
Is this the largest security breach ever?
News Heartland Payment Systems, which processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses, reported Tuesday that consumer credit card data was exposed in what may be the largest security breach ever. [21 Jan 2009]
Microsoft Technology Helps New Zealand Banks Take Mobile Payments
White Paper Paymark's two key functions are to authenticate credit and debit card payments and transfer funds to retailers' bank accounts at the point of sale. The company wanted to extend the service to a wider range of merchants... [19 Dec 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News In the next few years, the Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2008-2013 report from analyst house Juniper Research predicts mobile payments will be driven by mobile money transfers and... [30 Oct 2008]
Do you have what it takes to be an e-caped crusader?
News Speaking at an event organised by payments processing company SecureTrading in London last week, McMurdie admitted there are very few officers in the UK that would know what a victim of computer crime was talking about... [01 Oct 2008]
Taxman gets record number of online returns
News Each year about 1.8 million employers throughout the UK are required to inform HMRC of their employees' tax and national insurance payments for the last financial year. More than 80 per cent of employers' end-of-year tax... [02 Jun 2008]
