Canadian Bank CIBC Launches Mobile Banking App for iPad

CIBC today announced the launch of a Mobile Banking App designed specifically for the iPad. The launch makes CIBC the first major bank in Canada to deliver a native iPad mobile banking app, building on CIBC’s leadership in mobile financial services. The app enables CIBC clients to bank on their iPad...

Trunkbow International and China UnionPay Form Mobile Payment Partnership

Trunkbow International Holdings Limited, a provider of Mobile Payment Solutions (“MPS”) and Mobile Value Added Solutions (“MVAS”) in China, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with China UnionPay (“UnionPay”), China’s leading bankcard...

AIB Launches Mobile Banking Site

AIB today announced the launch of its new mobile banking webdsite, which has been tailored specifically for use on smartphones. More than 650,000 of AIB customers actively use AIB Internet Banking and the bank has seen significant growth in the numbers of customers accessing their Internet Banking using...

Mobile Payment for iPhone to Launch in South Korea

South Korea’s telecom titan KT Corp. said Monday that it will roll out a new service for Apple Inc.’s iPhone, which will turn the smartphone into a mobile wallet for wireless financial transactions. The country’s second-largest mobile operator plans to introduce a new smartphone case for...

China’s 99Bill Launches e-payment Platform and Mobile Payment Strategy

99Bill, China’s leading independent third-party payment service provider, joined with its partners recently in Beijing to launch its new ’99Bill+’ payment platform and announce its strategy for mobile payments. The event was attended by over 100 guests, including banking partners,...

Chinese Mobile Payment Company B.Shark Expands to Thailand Market

B.Shark, a Chinese company offering worldwide mobile payment solutions, is expanding its market to Thailand. The company’s mobile payment API covers the three major operators in Thailand: AIS, DTAC and TrueMove. The number of mobile subscribers in Thailand exceeds 70 million, which is greater than the...

Mobile Money: CBN grants full license to United Bank of Africa’s U-Mo

The apex financial regulatory agency in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday August 18, 2011 granted UBA the final license to operate a mobile payment service known as U-Mo.  The company, which was among the 7 licenses granted by the CBN had earlier been granted approval-in-principle by...

Chinese Company B.Shark to Extend Mobile Payment Offering to Physical Goods

Years ago, operator billing was only applied for value-added services such as ringtones, ring back tones, wallpaper, news, music, and the like. Later it was applied to other fields such as mobile games, game tools and the mobile application market. Now, operator billing is extending to more and more fields,...

Telefónica Germany, Telekom and Vodafone Plan “Mpass” Mobile Payment Company

Telefónica Germany, Telekom and Vodafone are pushing ahead with their joint activities in mobile payments. The three telecommunications providers intend to register their payment service mpass as a separate company, and have signed a letter of understanding to this effect. The new company is due to begin...

B.Shark Holds Forum on Who Will Play a Leading Roll in Mobile Payments

B.Shark, a Chinese company offering worldwide mobile payment solutions, recently collaborated with SPforum, the largest microblog dedicated to the Mobile Internet industry in China, to hold a forum about who will play the leading role in worldwide mobile payments. The discussion was lively, and experts from...

Payment Methods for Chinese Social Networking Service (SNS) Games Exported to Southeast Asian Market

As Chinese game developers rush to explore the overseas market, game operation as well as in-game payment systems have become a hot topic for game developers. Chinese game developers are running their games in the overseas markets in a number of ways: First, through massive global social networks, such as...

B.Shark Mobile Payment API Drives Up the China Phone Market

Just one month after launching the B.Shark mobile payment API, hundreds of mobile application developers and manufacturers have started the integration work, and shipped out the mobiles and have started generating income. Particularly the South East Asian market is showing a sharp increase at the beginning...

Chinese Mobile Game Developers Discuss Expansion to Overseas Markets

Recently the SPforum Blog, the largest microblog dedicated to the Mobile Internet industry in China, held a forum with topics on how Chinese game developers can expand to overseas markets. The discussion was lively, and more than 100 top Chinese game developers participated. Some highlights from the forum...

Gartner Casts a Shadow on Mobile Banking in Australia

Gartner’s senior analyst for the financial sector has cast doubts on whether Australian banks should invest heavily in mobile banking applications and near field communication (NFC) payment systems, as Australian banks have struggled to profit from mobile banking applications, with the majority of...

China Telecom Offers 3G Mobile Payments in Bejing

China Telecom’s Beijing branch has published a report, stating that it will open a mobile phone payment function for its eSurfing 3G users.With this new function, users can inquiry about their bank card balances, pay mobile phone fees, pay credit card bills, and transfer money between bank cards with...

Multicard Partners With Rabobank and Royal Dutch Hockey Federation to Promote Mobile Payment Solution in Holland

Multicard, a leading supplier of credential solutions, identity management, and system integration services and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) (Frankfurt:INV), announced today that it is partnering with the Dutch financial services company Rabobank and the Royal Dutch Hockey Federation...

FonePays to Auction Mobile Payment Software

FonePays, a mobile payment software provider, will be sold to the highest bidder on July 8, 2011. The sale of the Software and other Intangible Assets is being conducted by Steve Geringer a technology consultant and licensed auctioneer. The FonePays software allows users to send money to one another using ...

Nokia Ships Phones With Banking Application in India

Nokia has started shipping mobile phones in India that are preloaded with its banking application, in a bid to popularize mobile banking in the country. India is the first market where Nokia is preloading the Mobile Money client on its phones, a company spokeswoman said on Monday. Nokia has already teamed up...

Ethiopia’s Commercial Bank Signs Mobile Banking Accord With IBM

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced details of a $3 million (USD) deal with the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) to support the bank in a major program of modernization and business expansion. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will provide hardware, software and IT services to support the bank in its rapid...

Chinese Mobile Payment Company B.Shark Launches Payment API for Tablets

With more than 300 partners registered in the first week after B.Shark launched its mobile payment API, B.Shark continued to introduce the payment API for tablets. With the B.Shark’s BSpay API, tablet manufacturers will be able to charge consumers from other countries, which would be a new option to...