Facebook and Finance – friends or foes?
It’s not often that leading figures from one industry care to enter the inner sanctum of another to lay out some home truths. It happened twice this week in Dublin at TM Forum’s Management World and it got me thinking. Read more……
‘Going Dutch’ has taken on new meaning
Just after publication of my prediction that war was breaking out between the major players in the NFC and mobile payments world, three mobile operators and three banks in the Netherlands announced collaboration on a unified m-payments system. The announcement came after the parties had conducted research that proved it was both ‘technically and commercially feasible’ [...]
Mobile Payments War Looming
NFC, or near field technology, should be a raging success outside of Korea and Japan, but it simply is not. This is despite efforts by the GSMA to get the ball rolling with CSPs worldwide and the finance and transport industries agreeing and the profound benefits of having multiple payment methods ensconced in mobile devices. [...]
French NFC trials could break the banks
Just in time for this years 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 [...]
Secure Mobile Transactions – forget the shiny future technology
Whilst the telco and finance communities argue over the spoils available through NFC (Near Field Communication) technologies, some enterprising mobile service providers have developed what they claim are viable and cheaper alternatives to contactless payment technologies with Mobile Signatures and m-Payments. Read article…
NFC stands for Not For Consumption
Banks are not the most popular global institutions at the moment and, if a recent conference on Near Field Communications (NFC) is anything to go by, they’re not endearing themselves to the telco community either. Read article…