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...

Monitise Partners with RBS Technology for Mobile Banking and Payment Services

Monitise plc  today announced that the company has signed a new partnership agreement with RBS Technology Services to broaden mobile banking and payments services across its banking divisions. Monitise has strengthened its existing relationship with RBS by entering a new five-year global strategic...

Payfone and Mobile Accord Partner for Mobile Donation Channel

Payfone, a leading mobile payment processing service, and Mobile Accord, an innovator and leader in mobile technology for nonprofit organizations, today announced a strategic partnership to expand the mobile donation channel for nonprofits and non-governmental entities worldwide. Through the partnership,...

BNP Paribas and Orange Partner to Launch First Entirely Mobile Bank

BNP Paribas and Orange have formed a partnership and signed a trademark licence agreement to launch innovative mobile banking services in November 2011. This strategic business partnership allows the groups to share expertise in their respective areas of excellence. It brings together the world of...

UK Mobile Operator Joint Venture Critical for Success in NFC Mobile Payments

The newly announced mobile marketing and mobile payments joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Telefonica O2 and Vodafone in the UK is a positive move, and will enable these mobile operators to secure a position at the heart of the nascent NFC contactless payments...

TelChina and China Mobile to Build Mobile Payment Solution With .TEL Extension

TelChina and China Mobile have entered into a strategic relationship to develop Mobile-Pay services on the .tel platform, according to Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the .tel top level domain (TLD). “As .tel combines advantages of both the Internet and telecommunications, it will be able to...

Fiserv Acquires M-Com to Boost Mobile Banking Offerings

Fiserv, Inc., a provider of financial services technology solutions,  has acquired Mobile Commerce Ltd. (M-Com), an international mobile banking and payments provider, to enhance Fiserv’s existing mobile channel capabilities. The two companies have been partners since 2008, developing and...

Sutherland and Tyfone Partner in Mobile Banking Services

Sutherland Global Services, a provider of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, has announced a partnership with Tyfone, a global provider of unified mobile secure transaction infrastructure for mobile banking, mobile identity management and mobile contactless NFC payments. Over the last twenty...

Fifth Third Bank to Offer Mobile Banking with ClairMail Solution

Fifth Third Bank has selected ClairMail to power its new mobile banking technology and services.  ClairMail, Inc., a mobile banking and payments solution provider, will provide Fifth Third Bank with a solution to allow the bank’s customers better mobile access to their accounts, bill paying...

Mobile Financial Services Provide Banking Solutions to Rural Kenya

Nuru International, a U.S.-based social venture that equips the poor living in remote areas to end extreme poverty in their communities, is using innovative new technologies for mobile banking to increase access to basic financial services for rural households in Kenya. The organization is working with Mifos...

MoneyGram, Iris Wireless and Globe Telecom to Provide Mobile Phone Load Service in Philippines

MoneyGram, Iris Wireless and Globe Telecom Partner to Provide Mobile Top-Up to Philippines U.S. consumers can purchase airtime credits for loved ones in the Philippines at any MoneyGram ExpressPayment agent location MoneyGram International and Iris Wireless announced an agreement to provide global prepaid...

FICO to Offer Telrock SMS and Mobile Payment App to Customers

FICO, a provider of analytics and decision management technology, and London-based Telrock Communications Ltd., developer of mobile applications for banking, payments and debt management, today announced an agreement under which FICO will resell Telrock’s interactive text and smartphone applications around...

Sprint Selects BilltoMobile to Provide Direct to Mobile Billing for Sprint Customers

BilltoMobile has announced a  Direct Mobile Billing Gateway Servce Provider agreement with Sprint, which will allow Sprint customers to charge online purchases directly to their Sprint bill. Once implementation is complete in the coming months, merchants and payment resellers using BilltoMobile’s...

BilltoMobile Adds Sprint, Extends Reach to 240 Million U.S. Customers

A year ago, few people in the U.S. had ever heard of BilltoMobile, a direct carrier billing company with roots in Korea. But the San Jose, Calif. company is fast emerging as a leader in the mobile payments space with direct billing arrangements with Verizon and AT&T and Friday, it’s adding Sprint to...

Western Union Partners with Etisalat to Provide International Mobile Money Transfers

Western Union and Etisalat Group, a mobile phone company in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, will introduce Western Union Mobile Money Transfer service in the 18 countries where Etisalat operates. Once agreements are signed between Western Union and Etisalat’s mobile network operators and the service...

MXit Signs Agreement with wiWallet to Offer Mobile Payments

MXit has signed an exclusive agreement with wiWallet, that will soon make it possible for MXit’s 10-million active users to make use mobile payment services. wiWallet is a subsidiary of UCS Group Limited (“UCS”), a provider of retail software within South Africa, where the Group services 95% of SA’s...

Belgium’s Financial and Mobile Telephone Sectors to Develop New NFC Mobile Payment System

The Belgian financial sector and the Belgian mobile telephone companies—Belgacom, BASE (KPN Group Belgium) and Mobistar—have partnered to launch a new mobile payment system in Belgium. Currently, they are planning to develop a product that will be accessible to the public at large with a launch date in...

Partnership Between NTT DOCOMO and KT Corp Will Bring Cross-border NFC Services to Japan and South Korea

NTT DOCOMO has partnered with South Korea’s leading telecom operator, KT Corporation, to use near field communication (NFC) technologies to develop cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional coupons and other NFC applications. The services will launch in their respective...

PaymentOne Partners With BilltoMobile to Offer Direct Mobile Billing

Two of the leading mobile payment and carrier billing companies in the world have agreed to provide merchants and consumers with a seamless and secure mobile payment experience. San Jose-based PaymentOne has partnered with BilltoMobile to offer PaymentOne merchants and customers more competitive payouts and...

BilltoMobile Expands Verizon Carrier Billing Options to Include Boku

BilltoMobile is expanding its direct carrier billing relationship with Verizon Wireless to process transactions from other payment platforms starting with mobile payment start-up Boku. The agreement allows Boku to tap into BilltoMobile’s direct billing gateway and will greatly expand the number of...