Digital Money in Pakistan – 2013 Report

Research and Markets’ Digital Money in Pakistan has been designed specifically for the use of global players such as banks, operators and technology providers. They fill a gap in the market, and although offered at a report price, this is not a run-of-the-mill paper report. R&M coined the term...

Delineating the Mobile Value Chain: A Holistic View of Mobile Payment

As excitement surrounding mobile payments develops, most of the focus has been placed on the wallet apps such as Google Wallet and Isis jockeying for position. However, the success of a mobile payments system will depend on far more than which piece of software will be used on the most devices. A fully...

Mobile Payment Strategies Report: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015

A new study from Juniper Research has determined that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach $670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year. These forecasts represent the gross merchandise value of all purchases...

Research Report: Positioning for Payments in the New Mobile-Social Technology Era

We are at the beginning of a new technology cycle as consumer adoption of mobile and social media extends the reach of the web and integrates those media into the physical world. Facebook is only eight years old, and yet its planned $5 billion IPO is the largest Internet IPO ever. As in every new technology...

Research Report: Mobile Payment Systems and Solutions

Payments have been evolving for thousands of years. From the age-old bartering system, to cash, to check to electronic forms of payments, people have found innovative and more efficient ways to make a payment. This evolution has resulted in a significant shift in the current mix of consumer payments: from...

35 Million Phones Sold in 2011 Can Make NFC Mobile Payments

According to a new report by IMS Research, a leading independent supplier of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry the number of Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled phones shipped in 2011 totaled 35 million globally. IMS Research forecasts that significant market events and...

Mobile Industry Predictions Report: 2012

The Yankee Group has just released its free 17-page 2012 Annual Predictions Report, which looks into what the future has in store for the ever-growing mobility landscape. Overview: The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and the subject of this instability....

Alternative Payment Channels Report

Research and Markets has released a new report on Alternative Payment Channels, which have changed the way consumers pay for goods and services and have paved the way for tapping into the unbanked sector across the world. The report gives detailed insight into the huge variety of alternative payment...

Consumer Adoption of Mobile Banking Jumps Nearly 60% in 2011

After two years of flat growth, consumer mobile banking jumped from 19% to 30% in 2011, corresponding to a rise in Financial Institutions’ offering mobile banking and an increase in consumer smartphone ownership, according to Javelin Strategy and Research. The triple play–mobile banking via SMS...

New Report Focuses on NFC and Mobile Payments Landscape

There is much buzz around the growth of mobile payments in the United States, with predictions that it will hit $214 billion by 2014, according to Aite Group.  But which of the many possible approaches — including integrated NFC, non-integrated contactless, bar codes, cloud-based solutions, and text...

Mobile Commerce Solutions and Market Opportunities Report

Mobile commerce is exploding with solutions, applications, and services driven by emerging technologies, use cases, and business models. M-commerce is quite different from traditional e-commerce as the ecosystem and value chain are more dynamic and are evolving in a different...

NFC-enabled Point of Sale Ready to Explode, Says Report

Seeking to sell hardware and grow revenue, the major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)—VeriFone, Ingenico, and Hypercom—have developed and begun to implement business strategies that will drive near-field-communication (NFC) technologies into general availability in the United States, opening...

Global Mobile Payment Transactions to Reach $945 Billion in 2015, Says Report

The gross value of global mobile payment transactions will reach $945 billion in 2015, about a 30-fold increase from the comparable figure of $31.5 billion for 2010, according to IE Market Research (IEMR). The surge underscores IEMR’s expectation that mobile payments are positioned to become mainstream...

Research Report: 2011 Contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) Mobile Payments

Javelin Strategy and Research has release a new report entitled “2011 Contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) Mobile Payments: Framing Mobile Payments on the Foundation of Mobile Banking.” Mobile payments have been the source of much excitement for over half a decade, with the latest focus...

comScore Reports U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share for July, 2011

comScore, Inc. has released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with...

Self Service Customer Service via Mobile

Brian Day, product development architect for The Members Group (TMG) says it’s time for financial institutions to rethink they way they service customers – understanding that today’s consumer increasingly values self service over traditional customer service. This shift in customer preference, Day...

Google Wallet and Retail NFC Mobile Payments Ignite Buzz, Says ABI Research

Recent developments in contactless payment technology are generating renewed interest, and suggest that the long-delayed dream of comprehensive contactless payment systems may finally be approaching reality. The introduction of Google Wallet and the expectation that several new NFC-enabled smartphones will...

China NFC Payment Transaction Values to Top $8 Billion by 2014, Says Report

China could see more than $8 billion in mobile payments by 2014, according to ABI Research forecasts. The Near Field Communication (NFC) market is moving forward on an uneven front. Google is aggressively supporting the technology through the latest generation of Android handsets from its partners such as...

Research: Smartphone Banking Security

Javelin Strategy Research has release a new report entitled: “Smartphone Banking Security: Mobile Banking Utilization Stalls On Consumer Fears.” Mobile banking adoption has stagnated despite explosive growth in smartphone adoption from 2009 to 2011. In 2009, one in four smartphone owners...

Smartphone Banking Security: mBanking Susceptible to Consumer Fears

According to Research and Markets, mobile banking adoption has stagnated despite explosive growth in smartphone adoption from 2009 to 2011, and the company attributes the slowdown to consumer fears over mobile banking security. In 2009, one in four smartphone owners considered mobile banking unsafe. One year...