NFC will reportedly be part of Microsoft’s next generation smartphone platform, Windows Phone 8, after details were released in what was purported to be a video for its partners at Nokia. Read more...
US cellular operator Verizon Wireless is conducting a field trial of a new mobile payment solution developed with leading US payments processor Vantiv. Read more...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said the coffee chain is the number one company in the world in terms of mobile payments. Read more...
T-Mobile USA is the first mobile operator to sell the card reader for fast-growing payments provider Square. The US operator will start selling the reader, which is targeted at the small-business market, through selected stores from February 7. Read more...
Nokia is working to incorporate NFC technology into future versions of its Windows Phone-based Lumia phones and is considering a version with wireless charging Read more...
Shopping on mobile phones by British consumers will increase by 53 percent in 2012 to £4.53 billion making them the leaders in Europe for the third year running according to a survey by the Centre for Retail Research on behalf of price comparison website Kelkoo. Read more...
T-Mobile USA has widened its existing alliance with payments start up LevelUp which enables users to make payments via QR code on their cellular handsets. Read more...
HelloWallet, a US provider of mobile and online-based personalised financial guidance has raised US$12 million in series B funding from a number of investors including Morningstar and TD Fund which supplied backing of US$6.75 million and US$4 million respectively. Read more...
Leading local operator MTN has launched a new service in Nigeria that enables subscribers to send and receive money, pay their bills and buy airtime using their mobile handsets. Read more...
Google’s head of consumer payments Vikas Gupta has resigned, according to AllThingsD which has confirmed the departure with the search giant. Read more...
Credit card giant MasterCard is to conduct its first pilot of QR code technology for making payments via a mobile phone. Read more...
Most respondents in a Mobile Money Live poll say that mobile operators should create their own brands to support NFC-based payment services. Read more...
Peter Ayliffe, chief executive of Visa Europe, has predicted that “over half of all Visa transactions in Europe will be on a mobile device” by 2020. Read more...
Turkish operator Turkcell has introduced the third T series NFC Android smartphone confirming its support for an own-brand approach. Read more...
This new feature video from Mobile Money Live reveals the central role of regulation in dictating how mobile money services develop. A range of interviewees, including Jojo Malolos (pictured), Group Head Financial Services, Smart Communications, say whether they think regulation is heading in the right direction. Read more...
Ecommerce provider Powa has announced a new mobile payment service for the UK that is similar to popular US service Square. Read more...
Vodafone has led an US$11.3 million investment round in Finsphere Corporation, a US vendor of identity analytics technology that is used to secure transactions including mobile payments. Read more...
Shipments of NFC-enabled handset will likely grow about 100 percent this year to almost 200 million, according to consultancy firm Deloitte. Read more...
PayPal wants to see a newly launched mobile payments trial with US retailer Home Deport scale up to its entire nationwide chain by March. Read more...
MasterCard wants to partner with 4T, the consortium of Swedish mobile operators which aims to launch an NFC-based payments service later this year. Read more...