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While hard data are not yet available, anecdotal evidence indicates consumers are pleased with a mobile-payments pilot in San Francisco using phones equipped with near-field communication (NFC) technology and involving the Bay Area Rapid Transit rail system and Jack in the Box Inc. fast-food restaurants. “We've supported thousands of rides …
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How Mobile Candy Dish Combines Handset-Based P-to-P with NFC
A 3-year-old startup in Alameda, Calif., is introducing a mobile wallet that combines contactless payments based on near-field communication (NFC) technology with person-to-person payments and mobile banking. Mobile Candy Dish Inc. last week rolled out its Blaze Mobile Wallet, which works on the AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel wireless networks …
Read More »New P-to-P Service for Underbanked Looks to Launch M-Wallets
A handset-based service announced on Tuesday and aimed at allowing underbanked consumers to send money to individuals both in and outside the U.S. through Western Union locations could incorporate mobile wallets by the end of the year. That development would allow users of Trumpet Mobile, a reseller of prepaid wireless …
Read More »Mobile P2P ‘Could Take off in a Hurry,’ Researcher Notes
Not only do mobile payments between individuals constitute a strong market opportunity in themselves, but they also lay the groundwork for mobile payments to merchants, according to James Van Dyke, founder and principal of Javelin Strategy & Research, which this week released a research report on the mobile person-to-person (P2P) …
Read More »How an Incentive Boom Could Push Visa, MasterCard into Acquiring
Locked in increasingly fierce competition with each other and with other card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide are paying out higher and higher sums to issuers and merchants in the form of rebates and incentives, a trend that not only hurts the bank card networks' yield on each dollar …
Read More »Citi Makes a Down Payment on M-Payments with ViVOtech Stake
Getting financial institutions and telecommunications providers to agree on major issues related to mobile payments is one of the most difficult problems faced by the nascent mobile-payments industry. Nonetheless, some banks want to plant a stake on the mobile-payments turf early, as evidenced by the announcement this week that Citigroup …
Read More »TSYS Joins Rivals First Data, Metavante in Mobile Banking And Payments
With its announcement on Thursday that it is working with a U.K. provider to enable mobile access to credit card accounts in the U.S., Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) has joined rival payments processors First Data Corp. and Metavante Corp. in entering the nascent but highly promising business of mobile …
Read More »San Francisco NFC Pilot Tests Rewards As Well As Payments
A test of contactless payment via mobile phones, launched this week in San Francisco, relies on near-field communication (NFC) technology not only to handle transactions but also to manage consumer rewards. It differs from past NFC pilots in the U.S. in another way: It doesn't rely on either the MasterCard …
Read More »MasterCard Streamlines OTA for Its Spokane M-Payments Pilot
With its latest pilot for near-field communication (NFC) technology, which was announced on Monday and got under way last Thursday with select U.S. Bancorp credit card holders in Spokane, Wash., MasterCard Worldwide is testing a streamlined version of handset personalization it hopes will make it easier for consumers to adopt …
Read More »Survey Shows Heavy Carrier Reliance on Transaction Fees for NFC
In a development that could long complicate the introduction of commercial services allowing consumers to make point-of-sale payments with their mobile phones, mobile network operators say they will derive POS payment revenue chiefly from consumer transaction fees. According to research released this week, some 83% of carriers responding to an …
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