Orange gently eases UK bankers into mobile payments with Barclaycard

Orange and Barclaycard have unveiled the “next step” in their payment partnership, with a new contactless credit card. The card delivers a lot of services tied in with your mobile phone - where will these steps end? Hopefully, with full contactless mobile payments.

Yet more mobile banking - but it’s mobile payments we need.

Two industry leaders announced a mobile banking partnership today. Canada-based Scotiabank and mobile payments veteran M-Com will be launching an extensive service early next year. But the banks that are announcing mobile service now are really just catching up, and we need to be looking forward to mass adoption of mobile payment services.

Mobile payments start-up Bling Nation looking for nice operator

GoMo News had a 1-to-1 with Wences Casares, Founder, Director and Co-CEO of Bling Nation. One of the more promising payment start-ups at the Under The Radar conference, the mobile payments company uses NFC stickers to replace credits cards at point-of-sale transactions. Wences gaves me a live demo of the service. We spoke about how Bling only works with banks at the moment, and what Bling might achieve with operators.

Are ABnote and Sicap the next big thing in NFC mobile commerce?

A mobile software expert and a banking provider have teamed up to push mobile NFC for banking. ABnote and Sicap have announced that they are setting themselves up as an “aggregator” for any bank, retailer or mass transit provider that wants to create an NFC system. If this paragraph hasn’t made any sense to you so far, then don’t worry! All will be explained.

Mobile Commerce World: new opportunities for banks in m-commerce

It’s refreshing to get the bank perspective about mobile banking. At Mobile Commerce World in San Francisco today, representatives from SunTrust Bank and Wells Fargo took to the stage and discussed the experiences, expectations and future plans of banks working in mobile.

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