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Articles tagged with: M Banking
Mobile banking may render credit cards and cash obsolete
Banking by phone used to mean dialing a number and speaking with a teller. For Peter Kastner, 61, a consumer electronics consultant in Westport, it means whipping out his iPhone and touching an on-screen icon. more
U.S. Mobile Financial Services Markets Expected to Reach $1.46 Billion in 2013
Accounting for over 3 billion subscribers worldwide, mobile devices have emerged as a convenient and safe mode to conduct financial transactions. Both m-commerce and mobile banking services are being widely deployed across the United States. These services go beyond the traditional role of providing digital or mobile content services and allow for the procurement of physical goods. more
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Mobile Payments Surging Ahead with Opportunities in Emerging Markets
..ork.For financial institutions, m-banking and related m-payment services can be a differentiating factor and a chance to tap into the trillion US$ market of micro cash payments.For merchants, it is best to evaluate the m-payment channel a more
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Mobile Banking for the Unbanked and the Financial Crisis
.. Though these are encouraging numbers, CGAP has found globally that so far m-banking has yet to reach its full potential. Fewer than one in ten mobile phone banking customers are poor, new to banking, and doing anything more than payments and tran more
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Telefonica to Launch Mobile Banking Across Latin America
Telefónica says that it is to launch a new mobile banking (m-banking) initiative, targeting the 175 million people in the Latin Amercia region who have mobile phones but do not currently have banking access, will be delivered in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The project will launch from July 2008 and be rolled out across the region. more
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WTO DG Lamy celebrates benefits of opening trade in telecoms
World Trade Organisation Director-General Pascal Lamy has hailed liberalisation of trade in telecoms services as a vital tool in economic growth and development on the occasion of the WTO Symposium on Telecommunications organized in Geneva to commemorate the 10th anniversary of agreement among WTO members to open basic telecommunications services. more
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Low-Income Market Initiatives will Drive Mobile Banking in North America
Yankee Group says that mobile banking (m-banking) must become available to a majority of mobile users including prepaid and low-income consumers if it is to succeed in North America. m-banking solution providers in North America can learn an important lesson on service adoption from international low-income initiatives as the global rise of the Anywhere Consumer takes hold. more
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Gemalto deploys m-banking service
..a mobile banking service for all GSM operators, Gemalto said in a statement. Gemalto's m-banking solution allows mobile subscribers to perform secure transactions and make payments, transfers and requests for information. Gemalto's solution inc more
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Study: 38% of top LatAm banks offer m-banking
..ough the exchange of SMS messages, as evidenced by 76% of the Latin American banks that have m-banking options.Of the 38 banks with mobile messaging, eight are from Brazil, six from Argentina, six from Chile, five from Mexico and four from Venezuela. more
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Swedish firms eye opportunities for mobile solutions
Swedish mobile solutions firms see potential for selling m-banking, SMS related services and other mobile solutions in Chile due to the country's high mobile penetration, according to an executive with Swedish telecoms industry organization TelecomCity. more
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