m-payment

Bling Nation is delighted to announce the availability of its mobile phone payment service throughout Stanford University.

That is a company’s move to expand its Palo Alto deployment.

A white paper, Mobile Remote Payments General Guidelines for Ecosystems, that has recently released by Mobey Forum, explains how mobile technology can be used for payments where two parties send and receive or exchange funds using the mobile channel, irrespective of where they are located.

As Visa unveiled today, it’s teaming with Turkey's Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity in a move to launch Europe's first microSD-based contactless m-payment system.

Thus far, Akbank customers will be enabled to insert DeviceFidelity's In2Pay microSD into their handsets' memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals.

Global leader in providing mobile payment solutions, mopay, has recently announced a new solution for online merchants, that let them bill purchases directly to consumers’ land line phone accounts.

With mopay call, mopay is one of the first of the mobile payments platforms to let users charge a payment to a landline bill as opposed to a cell phone bill.

Societe Generale presents a new mobile payments service in Senegal, Yoban'tel,  that is open to anyone with a handset, who whether or not have a bank account and regardless of their network operator.

Zong, the open mobile platform Zong that combines carrier billing with credit, debit and prepaid cards and therefore the first company to allow multiple payment options via the mobile phone, has announced a private beta for Android developers to integrate this payment option into their applications. 

Mobibucks, that delivers unique payment and incentive products for making purchases using a mobile phone number, announced Thursday it noticed a significant increase in demand for its products over the last six months in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Bling Nation in its first east coast community deployment announced that Saratoga Springs, NY-based The Adirondack Trust Company, is actively offering mobile payments to its customers and community.

Saratoga Springs and The Adirondack Trust Company mark the first East coast community to roll out mobile payments.

Leading financial services provider for members of the military community and their families, USAA, introduces its new quick logon and authentication security software.

USSA’s new solution will provide its mobile users with faster, more secure mobile logon access to their banking, insurance and investment accounts.

Tameer Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan alliance launched a first of its kind product in Pakistan, offering transactions through the customer's own mobile phone.

'Mobile Account' represents the third in the suite of services offered under the banner of easypaisa. Mobile Accounts will support utility bill payment, money transfer and cash in / cash out services through customer's Telenor connection.

hyperWALLET Systems, a leading provider of global payment solutions, today announced the addition of Japanese and Malay language support to its global payments platform, web and mobile payment solutions. These two new languages bring the supported total to ten, providing additional linguistic options for organizations that wish to offer localized payment services to customers across international markets.

Corporation Bank, Tata Teleservices and PayMate united their efforts to introduce Green Money Transfer, an industry first by making P2P mobile money transfer a reality and bringing India one step closer to financial inclusion of its strong unbanked population. Green Money Transfer claims to be first of its kind P2P mobile money transfer service allowing people at the two ends of the country to transfer money to each other in an instant.

 The Western Union Company, a global leader in money transfer, and Maxis Communications Berhad (Maxis), Malaysia’s leading mobile communications service provider, announced today that they are working together to launch a service that would allow Maxis subscribers to send cross-border remittances directly from their mobile phones. The service is expected to be rolled out in early 2010.