Tag: mobile-payments

  • Meet Apple Pay, Apple’s new mobile payment system

    Meet Apple Pay, Apple’s new mobile payment system

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    Apple has plunged into the world of mobile payments with the introduction of Apple Pay. This new service is integrated in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. The payment service is designed to allow users to scan tickets, buy merchandise, and even engage in other payment actions by waving their mobile device at the reader.

    With Apple Pay, you may no longer need to carry your credit or debit cards around as you can have all of them stored in your Passbook. 

    How it Works 

    With the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, you don’t even have to open an app to use the service, simply place your finger on Touch ID and hold your phone near the contactless reader. You do not have to look at the screen as a subtle beep and vibration tells you that the information was sent successfully.

    For the Apple Watch, hold the face of your Apple watch near the contactless reader and double click the button that is just below the digital crown. You will know your information was sent successfully when you feel a gentle pulse and a beep. This feature will become active in early 2015.

    How to Setup 

    Setting up is easy as all your debit and credit card info can be stored in your Passbook. To get started, you can add the debit or credit card from your iTunes a/c to Passbook by entering the security code of your card.

    Use the iSight Camera to add new card information. You could even type it in manually if you wish. The first card you add becomes your default payment card, but you can always change this by going to Passbook settings and choosing another card to be your default.

    Security 

    Every time you add a card to your Passbook, a unique Device Account Number is created and encrypted. This number is then stored safely in a secure element on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Apple does not store these numbers in their servers. When you are making a payment, the Device Account Number, together with a dynamic transaction-specific security code are used to process your payment. This therefore means that your actual debit or credit card numbers never get to be transmitted with payments or shared with merchants. 

    In case you lose your iPhone, you could always wipe it clean or put it in Lost Mode using Find My iPhone.

    You will be able to use Apple Pay in over 220,000 stores that accept contactless payments.

  • Apple Announces iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

    Apple Announces iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

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    Apple has just announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, two new models with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch Retina HD displays, and packed with some new technologies in an all-new thin design.

    iPhone 6 features a 4.7-inch display with 1334 x 750 resolution (38 percent more viewing area than iPhone 5s), while iPhone 6 Plus features an even bigger 5.5-inch display with 1920 x 1080 resolution (88 percent more viewing area and nearly three times the pixels than iPhone 5s.)

    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus include: the A8 chip with second generation 64-bit architecture; improved iSight and FaceTime HD cameras; ultrafast wireless technology VoLTE and Apple Pay, a new mobile payment system:

    Users can pay securely and conveniently in stores by simply holding the phone near the contactless reader while keeping a finger on Touch ID; there is no need to unlock your iPhone or launch an app.

    With Apple Pay, you can also make one-touch purchases within apps, without having to enter credit card or shipping information. All payment information is kept private, encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Element, a chip inside the new iPhones.

    Both models include the M8 motion coprocessor that gathers motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and the new barometer, which senses air pressure to provide relative elevation.

    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus include iOS 8 with new Messages and Photos features, QuickType keyboard, a new Health app, Family Sharing and iCloud Drive.

    Pricing and Availability

    iPhone 6 comes in gold, silver or space gray, and will be available in the US for $199 for the 16GB model, $299 for the 64GB model and for $399 for a new 128GB model (with a two-year contract).

    iPhone 6 Plus comes in the same colors and will be available in the US for $299  for the 16GB model, $399 for the 64GB model and $499 for the new 128GB model (with a two-year contract.)

    iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK beginning on Friday, September 19, and customers can pre-order both models beginning on Friday, September 12.

  • Weve and PayPal among the 150+ Mobile Payments experts to meet in London, 23-24 April, 2013

    Weve and PayPal are among the top speakers confirmed for Mobile Payments and Value Added Services, Europe’s biggest mobile payments event, taking place 23-24 April, London. This event looks to unite attendees from major banks, MNOs, payment providers and retailers, in order to debate and discuss how the evolution of mobile technology can be used to cash in on the payments sector.

    Juniper Research predicts global mobile payment transactions will be worth $1.3 trillion over the next five years. The number of people buying physical goods remotely via their mobile handsets is expected to increase by nearly 50% between now and 2015 while 78% of POS terminals in Europe are forecasted to be NFC-enabled by 2017.

    In light of this, many companies are changing their strategies in order exploit the growing adoption of mobile payments. However, the growth in opportunity has also led to the rapid rise in the development differing of payment technologies, and plethora of solutions on the market.  Mobile Payments and Value Added Services will provide a forum to compare these payment solutions and help companies’ assess the benefits of value added services to their consumers.

    The agenda is set to answer the critical questions facing mobile payment professionals today; how banks can preserve their place in the payments value chain; in what way payments can generate additional revenue streams for MNOs; what opportunities exist for the Mobile Wallet; whether one payments solution win out, or is there room for  Cloud Payments, NFC and the rest? Speakers confirmed to speak so far include PayPal, Tesco, Visa, EE, and BNP Paribas among many others.  With attendees from Best Buy, American Express, John Lewis and more

    Event Director, Aoife Gaffney, VP Payments at M For Mobile, outlined what the conference would provide in a recent interview.  “After many years of talking about NFC, we have now seen a variety of other solutions explode onto the scene, using a range of technologies, all competing to reach mass consumer adoption. With forecasts for the payments industry in the billions, in order to profit and remain competitive, it is crucial that companies forge the right partnerships and keep themselves informed to stay ahead of the curve –  that is what Mobile Payments and Value Added Services will allow them to do.’”

    More information on Mobile Payments and Value Added Services can be found here.

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    About M for Mobile
    M for Mobile publishes news and events for those involved in the mobile industry, primarily mobile technology. Through high-end B2B conferences, we connect people across the industry, provide market leading intelligence and enable companies to capitalise on emerging business opportunities in location-based services, tracking, NFC, mobile advertising and mobile payments and much more.

    M for Mobile was created in February 2012 by uniting two established conference brands; NFC Insight and TheWhereBusiness. Through continuous independent research with hundreds of companies and dedicated journalists, our news portal keeps you one step ahead of an industry in flux, and our events provide key networking forums for the industry.

    Through an unusually high level of support from leading companies we provide opportunities to connect with typically unobtainable executives. Over the past two years we’ve brought together senior execs from companies such as Google, Fedex, Ogilvy, Yahoo!, MasterCard, Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, MTV, T-Mobile, AT&T, TomTom, BBC, Orange, Visa, BMW, Vodafone and many, many more!

  • Sample Attendee list just announced for NFC Payments – PayPal, Raley’s, Best Buy, Bank of America, Barclaycard, Verizon, T-Mobile and more to meet

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    M for Mobile have released the latest sample of the biggest industry experts to attend this year’s NFC Payments USA (Oct 29-30, Boston) event, taking place in just 2 weeks’ time.

    NFC’s most exciting event yet will reveal a stark comparison and in-depth analysis on NFC as a payments technology, compared with its peer competing payment technologies. 

    It also offers a valuable financial perspective through the high caliber of speakers who will lead the exceptional networking opportunity in Boston on the 29th and 30th of this month, including PayPal, Best Buy, Raley’s, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Citi, Barclaycard, Capital One and many more.

    Identify your future partner here.

    With NFC still topping the charts as the next big thing in mobile payments, this year’s conference is bursting with new ideas including an in-depth comparison and evaluation of NFC Payments technology versus all other forms of mobile payment technologies to measure and plan your future NFC strategy, a financial perspective on NFC including the most effective business models to apply and how to reach the fastest ROI for your organization and the opportunity to network with executives from across the entire NFC ecosystem to form those profitable partnerships for 2013.

    Have a look at the attendees already signed up here.

    Contact [email protected] to see what available discounts are left – make sure you secure your place before.

  • Focus your Mobile Payments business plan on the most lucrative areas

    In conjunction with Mobile Payments Latin America (Dec 5-6, Miami), M for Mobile have released the latest most comprehensive White paper on Mobile Payments in Latin America. The White paper offers you expert insight into the most lucrative areas on mobile payments in Latin America in order to make sure your business plan is on trend and ahead of the game.

    Due to the rapid uptake and developments within mobile payments sector, the biggest and most forward-thinking companies are capitalizing on the industry's critical growth phase.  Through a bespoke survey conducted on just under 100 senior level Latin American industry experts, the exclusive 14 page White paper covers the main areas including Regulation, by assessing legal clarity and the rules for your organization.  It discusses security and how to create trust and confidence for the consumer, as well as value-proposition and the commercial value of establishing common goals when marketing your product.  Interoperability is also analysed and the technical advances to overcome this, as well as mass adoption and the operational strategy when building successful relationships throughout the ecosystem.

    You will also gain insight into which mobile payment technologies you should adopt (SMS, Direct Carrier Billing, Cloud-Based, EMV chip, NFC, Bluetooth) and insight in to the competing technologies you are up against, time frames for mass adoption and Case Studies on mobile payment initiatives to knowledge from and use in your organization’s strategy.

    Click here to view the 14 page exclusive white paper on Mobile Payments Latin America.

  • NFC Payments USA hones in on the most controversial topics for NFC-lovers – yet

    With less than four weeks to go to the event NFC Payments USA (Oct 29-30, Boston) M for Mobile are pulling NFC out from under the carpet and are looking at its strengths, pitfalls, longevity and where it will exist in the future. Press around why it was not included in Apple’s iPhone 5 has shaken peoples trust in NFC and this event is here to expose and resolve all.

    With top speakers from Barclaycard, Bank of America, PayPal, T-Mobile, AT&T, Best Buy, Verizon Wireless, Samsung, MasterCard, VISA, Capital One, CIBC, Citi – and more, the event has gained huge hype and is set to offer a stark comparison of NFC versus all other types of mobile payments.  Alongside case studies from retailers, banks and MNOs, topics include the most lucrative and efficient business models to employ, methods to reach mass adoption, international lessons in NFC and the future of NFC.

    Naomi Hands, Global Head of Marketing at M for Mobile says, “If someone is there that you want to meet, I guarantee you will be able to reach out and exchange business cards with them.  With such a high calibre of attendees it really is an exceptional opportunity to get ahead with NFC.”

    Terri Prince, Director of Mobile Product Solutions at Clairmail suggests what to expect this year, “The sessions were great and informative.  I enjoyed the excellent variety of speakers with their various viewpoints (i.e. merchants, financial institutions, device manufacturers, TSMs etc)”, while Qualcomm added, “There were many excellent speakers, industry experts and multiple opportunities for high quality networking.”

    To find out more about the event or to register and secure your place among the industry’s top thought leaders, click here for more information.

  • Gartner: The Use of Mobile Fraud Detection in Mobile Commerce Environments is Imperative

    By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90 percent of mobile transactions, according to Gartner.

    The research firm says that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.

    "Because of the improving browser experiences on smartphones, mobile commerce and transaction execution are set to increase rapidly," said William Clark, research vice president at Gartner. "We estimate that by the end of 2013, 12.5 percent of all e-commerce transactions will be mobile."

    "Enterprise applications must detect fraud in these mobile environments, but fraud detection tools available today that work in fixed-line computing environments don’t work well or at all in the mobile world," Clark said.

    "There are a number of methods that can be implemented to help enterprises detect fraud in the mobile space, but they are still in their early stages of development, and it will take until at least 2012 for them to transform from embryonic applications to technically mature systems that work easily and transparently across disparate mobile networks," he added.

    According to Gartner, fraud prevention methods available today to mobile applications include:

    Mobile device identification — This is enabled through a JavaScript on the server that the user logs in to, which captures whatever information it can get from the user’s browser and phone, depending on whether the user is using a browser or native application. If the application is browser-based, then the JavaScript application captures whatever information it can get from the user’s browser to uniquely identify that particular user’s browser and mobile device. If the mobile application is native and residing on the mobile handset, native applications can additionally gather the phone’s serial number and network card number. This will require opt-in by the user.

    Location of device — This is based on the phone’s location information independent of the browser (IP address), so the user does not have to have his or her mobile browser application open for this to work; the phone only needs to be turned on. Enterprises may want to check and correlate the location of the device relative to anything else they know about the user’s location through other systems they may interact with at the enterprise. For mobile phones, there are two architectures that are used to obtain location information: One relies on device information (e.g., using the GPS-API applications that the user must opt into); the other employs APIs provided through mobile network operators that don’t require the users to opt in to releasing this information.

    Some online fraud detection vendors are starting to tune their risk scoring and/or rule-based models specifically for mobile applications — For example, some vendors are looking at the mobile device itself, the location of the phone, and the behavior of the user inside the host application while transacting from the phone. This area is very new to the fraud detection vendors, as there is little mobile transaction experience to draw on in order to build effective risk models and scores that significantly improve on risk models that have already been built for fixed-line computing. It tries to combine some of the methods listed above, including mobile device identification and examining the location of the mobile phone in relation to other information known about the user and his/her location.

    Gartner estimates that 70 percent of the largest 20 global card issuers (who authorize more than 50 percent of all payment card transactions) will gradually adopt mobile context information to help detect fraud on fixed-line transactions, and that by year-end 2015, more than 15 percent of all payment card transactions will be validated using context-aware profile information.

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