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6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013: March 19-20, 2013 – Singapore

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As Asia’s largest mobile commerce summit event, Neoedge the leading producer of original conferences and workshops for the corporate world, has announced the biggest names in the industry supporting the 6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013 which is happening on the 19-20 March 2013 at the Hotel Novotel Clarke Quay Singapore.

The event is again expected to sell out fully, as in the last five years. The mobile commerce leaders at the event to date include Standard Chartered, Google, Digi Telecommunications, Mobile Accelerate, Vodafone, American Express, Telenor/Easypaisa, SingTel Group, Nokia (Finland), C-Sam, Mobile Monday Singapore, Indonesia Telecommunications Authority, Citi, Dialog Axiata, F1Soft International, Sprooki, Mastercard Worldwide, Zain Group, Du, National Payments Corporation of India, mcel, Taggo, eSewa, Olswang Asia, Indosat, Al Fardan Group, Habib Bank, Thomson Reuters Asia (Technology Division) and PCI Security Standards Council among others who will be featured at the event and bring to Singapore its latest mobile commerce technological innovations.

“We picked Singapore as our venue for two consecutive years now, primarily because it is considered to be Asia’s hub in terms of mobile technology.”, said Ricard Halim, Business Development Manager at Neoedge. “We are also delighted to welcome the executives from our Official Lanyard Sponsor, C-SAM, headed by Elizabeth Duke, the Head of Sales for Asia Pacific.” Halim added.

Among the international speakers lined up for 2013 is Biswas Dhakal the President of F1Soft International. They will hold a Post-Conference workshop entitled, “Mobile Financial Services in Under Developed Countries.” F1Soft is a leading company on transaction banking since its inception in 2004. It holds its principal offices in Nepal and regional presence in Singapore.

“What sets our event apart from the many mobile summits in Asia is that we seriously dedicate focus streams and panel discussions on topics which are currently shaking the mobile commerce space. Our agenda, while it is coherent, it aims to get as many players, if not all, in the ecosystem and it is designed to unveil what really is the future of mobile payments, mobile banking, mobile money transfer and NFC.”, Halim shared.

Neoedge’s 6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013, after being hailed as one of the most important telecom events in Asia, it was shortlisted as Best Telecom Conference in the Asian Conference Summit & Awards 2012.

For more information and registration: 6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013

 

 

About Neoedge:

 

Neoedge Pte. Ltd is a business media company that aims to serve the corporate world with integrity and excellence by providing cutting edge business intelligences and creating high value networking opportunities.

 

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New Report Focuses on NFC and Mobile Payments Landscape

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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 messaging — is the best choice?

The Smart Card Alliance today released a white paper entitled, “The Mobile Payments and NFC Landscape: A U.S. Perspective.”

The white paper provides an overview of the current state of the market for mobile payments and NFC-enabled payment applications in the U.S., and evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of different mobile payment approaches.

“Technology is always changing, especially within the mobile and payments industries, so it is difficult to predict when and how mobile payments will become commonplace in the United States,” said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. “The goal of this white paper is to help industry stakeholders understand the current mobile payments landscape, anticipate how mobile payments are likely to change, and appreciate the opportunities that mobile payments, and particularly NFC-enabled mobile contactless payments, present.”

Some of the topics covered in this snapshot of mobile payments include:

  • A description of the different types of mobile financial applications in use today
  • Discussion of the different mobile payments approaches with implementation examples
  • A summary of the merchant, consumer, issuer, and mobile operator requirements for NFC mobile proximity payments and the attendant benefits
  • An update on the status of Near-Field Communications (NFC) mobile proximity payments infrastructure
  • Evaluation of how different mobile payment approaches fulfill overall market requirements

Payments Council members involved in the development of this white paper included: Accenture; American Express; Apriva; Bank of America; Capgemini; Capital One; Connexem Consulting; CPI Card Group; Datacard Group; DeviceFidelity; Discover Financial Services; Gemalto; Giesecke & Devrient; Heartland Payment Systems; Infineon Technologies; INSIDE Secure; JPMorgan Chase; LTK Engineering Services; MasterCard Worldwide; NACHA; NagraID Security; NXP Semiconductors; Oberthur Technologies; Quadagno & Associates; Thales e-Security; WatchData Technologies USA; VeriFone; Visa Inc.; ViVOtech; and Mike Kutsch; Dale Laszig; and Chandra Srivastava.

Source: MarketWire