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Recently, Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said at the Banking Technology Excellence Awards, “World over, there are two distinct models in mobile banking – the bank led model and the mobile operator led model. The Reserve Bank has a clear preference for the bank led model.” But how equipped are [...]

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PayPal has been chosen as the mobile remote payment platform provider for the Singapore government’s Digital Concierge Programme. This is one of the key initiatives by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) that aims to foster growth of the mobile services ecosystem and encourage the development of transactional mobile services in Singapore. “This is [...]

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Roamware is now offering its Cardless ATM solution anywhere in the world, it claims. Cardless ATM can be used in the case of loss or theft of a cash card as well as to send money to friends or family at home or abroad. Cardless ATM is already in use in Europe. Permanent TSB (PTSB) [...]

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First Data Corporation and INSIDE Contactless have announced the companies have expanded their partnership by introducing a MasterCard PayPass contactless payment tag product. Based on INSIDE’s MicroPass payment platform and containing all the functionality of a traditional credit or debit card, the new mobile payment tag offers a cost-effective solution for enabling mobile phones with [...]

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Google has launched a tool designed to enable one-man-band merchants moving from site-to-site to accept payments using its Checkout system and Android mobile phones. In a blog, the search giant says its Android Payment Chrome Extension "helps merchants quickly set up a store and accept payments via Google Checkout and Android" – reports Finextra. Before [...]

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