Three quarters of the world’s poor do not have a bank account, not only because of poverty, but also because of the cost, travel distance, and amount of paper work involved in opening one, says the World Bank. Read more...
A recent report by CGAP and Dalberg Global Development Advisers examined whether international remittance payments can be a means to help build domestic mobile money services. Read more...
News stories and articles about mobile wallets, their deployment and use are appearing more frequently in the media. Read more...
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Carrying a virtual train ticket or repaying a friend with your mobile phone, buying your groceries online, paying with your debit card abroad – the way European citizens shop and pay is radically changing. Read more...
The majority of Brits will use voice commands to check their bank balance and perform other basic banking tasks on their mobile phone by 2014, according to Intelligent Environments, a digital banking provider. Read more...
Predicting future threats can be a hit-or-miss exercise for a security research organization. Read more...
Simply providing consumers with the convenience and functionality of mobile wallet technology will not be sufficient to drive mass-market adoption, asserts Mobey Forum in a new white paper announced today. Read more...
This new report from IBM gives an insight into consumer online behaviour over Thanksgiving 2011. Read more...
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Monitise's annual research report on the future of the mobile banking industry Read more...
Shipments of NFC-enabled handsets to hit 400m in 2015, says Berg Insight in this second edition report. Read more...
NFC-enabled smartphones will contribute to 28% of total smartphone sales to end users by 2015, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read more...
Mobile contactless/NFC is a payment option that is battling limited availability of contactless-ready merchant terminals and mobile technology, as well as low consumer demand, says Research and Markets.
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GSMA whitepaper from 2009 that looks into the use cases, roles, business models and technology required for International Mobile Money Transfer. Read more...