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Articles tagged with: Mobile Banking and Three
With 'Splash Cash' Sierra Leoneans Move Money By Mobile Phone
Mobile banking has already taken off in Southern and Eastern Africa. Sierra Leone is now one of the few West African countries with a service providing mobile phone transactions. more
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As Mobile Banking Heads for Explosive Growth, Consumers Rank Simplicity, Security Supreme
With 86 percent of American adults owning a mobile handset, mobile banking is poised for explosive growth. Currently 36 million adults are using mobile banking (smartphone users - 18% of Americans - are the heaviest users), but by 2014 that number is expected to grow to 99 million adults, according to a new study by Javelin Strategy & Research. more
Subscriptions to DoCoMo's Credit Payment Service Top 10 million
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has announced that the number of subscribers to its credit payment service, DCMX has now topped 10 million users. DCMX is a service brand for DoCoMo-issued credit cards, which allows subscribers to make purchases using their mobile phones as credit cards via iD, DoCoMo's branded mobile payment platform for handsets equipped with contactless IC cards (Osaifu-Keitai). For security, DoCoMo's Osaifu-Keitai phones can be locked remotely over the wireless network if misplaced or stolen. more
City University London Develops Easier Security for Mobile Banking
A team of informatics and engineering specialists at City University London has received £135,000 in funding from the Government's UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) for a three year project to develop new security measures for mobile banking. The UKIERI aims to encourage research links between the UK and India, one of the fastest growing mobile markets, with 80 million internet-enabled handset users predicted by the end of 2009. more