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Bank Technology News March 2008 John Adams	Is it Time for Tix by Cell? Will the growth of mobile banking and a broad increase in overall mobile phone functionality make consumers more comfortable with using mobile phones to make small purchases?
Entrepreneur July 2007 Jennifer Pellet	New Way to Pay Looking for a way to offer customers greater payment convenience? A mobile platform recently introduced by Visa is paving the way for merchants to accept payments from cell phones - though the technology has yet to reach the States.
Bank Technology News May 2009 Steve Bills	Which Comes First, Stickers or The Phones? Card companies are betting that if they stimulate consumer demand for mobile payments, it will spur the phone networks and manufacturers to move faster on improving the technology.
Bank Technology News February 2007 Glen Fest	Mobile Payments: Fair Play In HSBC Phone Pay Trial HSBC Credit Card Services is piloting the viability of mobile phones enabled with the Near Field Communication standard to measure interest in using phones with MasterCard's PayPass system. The trial is the latest stab at proving the viability of the mobile wallet.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Charles Keenan	The Next Frontier Experts say there's good reason to believe that mobile payments will become as widespread as Internet banking and ATMs. And if banks aren't ready, other providers, such as wireless phone carriers and payment vendors, will steal the show.
Bank Systems & Technology October 30, 2007 Richard Winston	Mobile Wallet Will Take Time to Mature In U.S. Contactless payments are a transitional technology on the way to the anticipated wallet phone.
Bank Technology News June 1, 2008 Glen Fest	Fractured World Of Contactless Cards To grow its Zip contactless payment platform, Discover Network has in place the chip orders, the merchant acquirer programs, terminal hardware deals and, of course, the user base. There's only one thing missing: the cards.
Bank Technology News May 2010 John Adams	On Your Chip, Get Set, Pay!! Before the mobile contactless payments race has even kicked off, First Data and Visa have grabbed the wheels of the pace car to move the pack faster.
Bank Technology News June 2006 Glen Fest	Contactless Payments: Visa Wins Faceoff For E-wallets The firm hopes a pilot program at hockey and basketball games in Atlanta will seed the further development of e-wallet initiatives. It's a market estimated at $24 billion.
Bank Technology News March 2007 Glen Fest	Mobile Payments: FSTC Wants Turf Talks for Mobile Wallets FSTC and Clearing House officials are examining ways to find common ground and agreed-upon standards allowing banks, carriers and cell-phone manufacturers to finally roll out the mobile wallet that remains frustratingly futuristic.
Bank Technology News October 2008 Glen Fest	Payment 'Stickers' Debut In Denver The Democratic National Convention in Denver was a coming-out party of sorts for First Data's near-term answer to the drive toward near-field communications technology.
Bank Technology News December 2010 Andrew Johnson	2010 Was Banking's Year of Mobile; Payments Next The recent Verizon, At&T, and Discover deals, along with a few others, suggests that next year will be the year that mobile payments dominate the headlines in the United States. But which business model will lead the industry is still anyone's guess.
Bank Systems & Technology December 23, 2007 Nick Holland	Forecasts Underestimate the Growth Potential for Mobile Banking Services in the U.S. Even a relatively muted uptake of mobile banking services among mobile subscribers can result in impressive numbers in the U.S., where mobile subscriber penetration has reached more than 80 percent of the population.
InternetNews October 13, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Motorola Tests M-Commerce Motorola and MasterCard want to prove that reducing the fumble factor can save merchants money.
Bank Systems & Technology December 1, 2003 Cynthia Ramsaran	Contactless Trial Takes Off MasterCard introduces contactless card trials in smaller markets.
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Bank Technology News February 2004	By The Numbers Consumer payment associations are targeting the U.S., where high rates of card penetration and low levels of mobile data usage have left mobile proximity payments off merchants' and consumers' radar screens.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Search Goes Mobile With Sprint Sprint Nextel offers local search function to some of its cell phones. Will this prove to be one of the services that will help push cell phones beyond mere tools for conversation? Investors, take note.
Bank Technology News October 2009 John Adams	Mobile and NFC are Killing the Cash Star Technology innovations such as NFC and mobile can have a huge impact on non-cash payments.
InternetNews March 28, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Visa: Credit Goes to Mobile Payments Visa's CEO called mobile devices the most promising payment platform in the world today.
U.S. Banker March 2010 Wade & Bills	Waiting For Contact The hardware works, and consumers worldwide think it's a cool idea. Still, near-field communication chips have made about zero progress morphing mobile phones into contactless payment tools.
Bank Systems & Technology September 25, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Google Partnership Key to Visa Mobile Payments Strategy Payments giant will offer m-payments services on Android-enabled mobile phones.
Bank Technology News May 2011 John Adams	NFC Championship Still Eludes Gartner says the market for NFC-enabled handsets should expand past $240 billion in the U.S. by 2014, up from its current level of about $32 billion.
U.S. Banker July 2007 Joseph Salesky	Mobile-Phone Banking: Coming to a Bank Near You The mobile phone is moving beyond voice communication and is poised to change the landscape with mobile banking.
Bank Systems & Technology May 15, 2008 Paula Damiano	Contactless Payments Are a Stepping-Stone to Mobile Cooperation among disparate entities is the key to achieving mobile payments.
HBS Working Knowledge February 14, 2005 Julie Jette	Ka-Ching! Mobile Commerce Gets Closer Will a day dawn when all the information in consumers' wallets can be contained in their cell phone? Cyberposium panelists sort fact from hype.
Entrepreneur October 2006 Amanda C. Kooser	Field Day New technology could help cell phone payments thrive.
Bank Technology News December 2010 John Adams	Canadian Banks Take Debit Contactless Believing consumers are ready to abandon cash for small purchases, Scotiabank and RBC will be the first banks to put InteracFlash chips onto their debit cards in Canada.
InternetNews March 15, 2011	Google to Test NFC-Based Mobile Wallet? This summer Google is going to begin testing a mobile payment service based on Near-Field-Communications technology, according to a report.
InternetNews January 10, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Visa Mobilizes Payments Platform Visa launched a suite of mobile technology tools, applications, security standards and business models meant to lay the foundation for the commercial availability of mobile payments and services to millions of mobile users around the world.
Bank Systems & Technology March 30, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Retail Payments Business Moving More Toward Mobile Increasingly, banks are under pressure to provide multiple payments options to keep customers from going to the bank down the street or even to a nontraditional financial services provider.
Bank Systems & Technology March 7, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Citi and SK Telecom Enter Mobile Banking Partnership Citi announced it is entering a partnership with South Korea's SK Mobile aimed at developing a more comprehensive and advanced set of mobile financial services and technologies.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Sprint Takes Microsoft Up on Local Search Offer Web-based search is coming to your mobile phone, courtesy of Microsoft and Sprint, who have struck a deal to offer Sprint's customers Windows Live Search, which includes local maps and directions, over wireless phones.
Bank Technology News January 2008 John Adams	Remote Access: Metavante Bulks Up In Mobile Arms Race Tech firms are bulking up their product rosters and bank relationships through a series of acquisitions and partnerships, in preparation for the mobile payments race.
InternetNews November 2, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Java Gmail Alights on Mobile Devices Google upgraded its Gmail product for mobile devices, turning the Web-only application into one users can cache on their devices.
InternetNews October 31, 2007	Sprint Also Rumored to Eyeball Google Apps Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, is in talks to put applications from Web search leader Google on its cell phones.
Bank Technology News April 2008 James Van Dyke	Security Worries for P2P Mobile Mobile person-to-person payments and transfers (mobile P2P) offer an important potential income-generating step for financial institutions, if the can overcome the security concerns that worry would-be users.
Bank Systems & Technology October 1, 2006 Nancy Feig	Contactless Payments Aim to Take a Bite Out of Small Cash Transactions The final frontier in payments is cash replacement for small transactions, according to Mark Friedman, president and CEO of Peppercoin.
Bank Systems & Technology November 3, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Big Moves by Visa, Citi MMV in Mobile Banking Space Both companies announce the rollout of initiatives designed to enhance the banking functionalities of people's mobile phones.
Bank Technology News March 1, 2008 Michael Dumiak	The Mobile Future That's Already Here Customers in the U.S. can soon expect to see smart card technology in their cell phones, as is already common in much of the world.
InternetNews November 16, 2007 Tim Scannell	Mobile Broadband Moving Beyond the Small Screen Wireless carriers and industry analysts outline the future of the mobile Internet based on technologies like WiMAX and a range of emerging devices.
Bank Systems & Technology September 30, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	Information Integration Key for Banks in Consumer Payments Integrating customer information is key in order for banks to stay competitive in the consumer payments game, according to Christophe Uzureau, an analyst with Gartner.
Bank Technology News September 2007 John Engen	Mobile Banking's Second Act Some in the banking industry see mobile banking as the channel of the future.
InternetNews December 3, 2007	It's The End of The Pay Phone as We Knew It AT&T to end dwindling pay phone business.
Bank Technology News November 2007 Holly Sraeel	Mobile Banking 2.0: Was There a First Wave? While the benefits of mobile banking are clear, there are some issues to contend with before industry players can expect a groundswell of movement on the consumer front.
Bank Systems & Technology December 23, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	U.S. Mobile Financial Services Still Needs Operating Model With mobile banking on the rise in the U.S., institutions still are challenged to find the best operating model.
Bank Technology News November 2006 Holly Sraeel	Hold the Phones: Mobile Commerce Is Here Firethorn Holdings' recent alliance with Cingular Wireless authorizes the Atlanta-based mobile banking and payments provider to serve as a gateway between the carrier and U.S. financial institutions.
CFO October 1, 2008 Yasmin Ghahremani	Cash, Credit, or Cell Phone? Mobile payments may soon change the way Americans buy.
InternetNews April 1, 2008	Microsoft Promises Full Web Browser For Mobile Microsoft answers Apple's lead with its own plans for graphics-intensive smartphone surfing.