Mobile phones have increasingly become tools that consumers use for banking, payments, budgeting, and shopping. Given the rapid pace of developments in the area of mobile finance, the Federal Reserve Board began conducting annual surveys of consumers’ use of mobile financial services in 2011. This 78-page report, “Consumers and Mobile Financial Services” (March, 2015) examines trends in the adoption and use of mobile banking, payments, and shopping behavior and how the emergence of mobile financial services affects consumers’ interaction with financial institutions.
Corduro
Corduro, Inc. is the first to enable payments in a mobile, social, cloud platform on a global scale. In addition to the company’s suite of cloud services that enable agile payments, Corduro offers tools for personal data storage, customer relationship management tools, and social media enabled communication. Founded in 2008, Corduro is headquartered in Southlake, Texas.
The company completed a Series A in early 2010 with Google Ventures as the lead investor. Participating with Google Ventures was Founder Collective and Western Technology Investments.
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PaymentOne
PaymentOne Corporation provides carrier-based billing for landline, broadband and mobile payments.
The company allows payment with “no credit card required” and has a 10-year track record in payment services that connect digital merchants, social media publishers, content providers and network operators.
PaymentOne has generated over $4 billion in new digital revenue for brand name clients, including Blizzard Entertainment and America Online.
AnyPhone connects with over 1100 network operators and enables over 3 billion worldwide consumers in 67 countries to bill digital purchases on any device to their existing mobile, broadband, or home phone bill. The company has a patent portfolio covering fraud prevention, authentication, and alternative payments. PaymentOne is privately held and headquartered in the Silicon Valley.
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Barclaycard US
Headquartered in Wilmington, Del., Barclaycard US creates customized, co-branded credit card programs for travel, entertainment, retail, affinity and financial institutions.
The company employs 1,400 people, and was named a Top Workplace in Delaware in 2010.
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Square
Square is a revolutionary service that enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere. Square offers an easy to use, free credit card reader that plugs into a phone or iPad. It’s simple to sign up. There is no extra equipment, complicated contracts, monthly fees or merchant account required.
Co-founded by Jim McKelvey and Jack Dorsey in 2009, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Saint Louis and New York City.
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Usablenet
Usablenet works with Fortune 500 companies to extend their web site to any customer, via Mobile, Facebook shops, Apps, Kiosks and Assistive versions.
Usablenet makes sure customers can access any aspect of a company’s website from wherever they are, without requiring client resources.
Usablenet powers over 185 clients, allowing them to comprehensively support their customers on a variety of platforms.
Founded in 2000, Usablenet is based in New York City, London and Italy.
Usablenet Mobile allows client customers to buy products or services, get information, and get support via any mobile phone anywhere. This means putting the decision of when and where to buy client product in their customers’ hands, literally, and in so doing, capture the enormous value of the mobile world.
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Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks is a global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services, consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services.
It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland.
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Comviva Technologies
Comviva is the global leader in providing mobile solutions beyond VAS. With an extensive portfolio of solutions spanning VAS infrastructure, application delivery platforms and customer-facing applications, Comviva enables mobile service providers to enrich mobile users’ lives, whilst rationalizing costs, accelerating revenue growth and enhancing customer lifetime value. Comviva’s solutions are deployed by service providers in over 85 countries and power services to more than 650 million mobile subscribers globally.
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Sage Payment Solutions
Sage Payment Solutions payment processing and business services are currently being provided to more than 140,000 companies to accept multiple forms of payment, including credit and debit cards, electronic checks, gift cards, and automatic recurring payments.
Sage Payment Solutions allows merchants to accept multiple forms of payment, from card present and mail order/telephone order (MO/TO) to Internet and payments integrated with Sage and other third party software.
Sage Payment Solutions provides a wide range of merchant services including: merchant accounts, equipment, processing solutions for retail, MO/TO and Internet businesses, and valuable customer retention tools like loyalty cards, online reporting and financial resources that ensure business growth.
Sage Payment Solutions, a division of Sage, has harnessed the products of Verus Card Services and Network 1 Financial’s proprietary payment processing gateway.
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Pay Anywhere
Powered by North American Bancard, Pay Anywhere is a payment solution that allows mercahnts to accept credit card payments anytime and anywhere. The Pay Anywhere app and card reader accessory were developed to offer a range of payment options for non-profit organizations, businesses and more.
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Vodafone
Vodafone Group plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world’s second-largest measured by subscribers (behind China Mobile), with around 332 million proportionate subscribers as of 30 September 2010. It operates networks in over 30 countries and has partner networks in over 40 additional countries. It owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile telecommunications company in the United States measured by subscribers
The name Vodafone comes from voice data fone, chosen by the company to “reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones”.
Its primary listing is on the London Stock Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalization of approximately £92 billion as of November 2010, making it the third largest company on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on NASDAQ.
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