As major U.S. cities with complex transportation systems explore converting to an electronic fare-collection structure that would accept open-loop contactless cards, mobile payments are becoming a factor in future planning.

More consumers might try making mobile payments if more large merchants supported them, new survey data suggest.

3G Direct Pay Ltd. has signed agreements with telecommunication operators Safaricom Ltd. and Airtel Ltd. to provide immediate transaction settlements for the two African companies’ funds-transfer services, the e-commerce firm announced Nov. 16.

Mobile-payment proponents let out a collective groan when Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone 4S lacked a Near Field Communication chip.

Like a pop star who sells more records posthumously, the Google Checkout payment service may prove most beneficial to Google after it is phased out.

Visa Europe plans to develop more loyalty programs for card issuers and merchants through its investment in data-analytics firm Beyond Analysis, the company announced Nov. 15.

Can using multiple branding terms to describe a payment process help an issuer to achieve its own brand loyalty and clarify its product message, or would doing so confuse customers?

Some analysts may question the viability of mobile-payments applications, but MocaPay Inc. is making some changes to help them along.

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M-via Inc. has rolled out a service called Boom designed to provide immigrants with a low-cost, safe alternative to high-fee funds-transfer services, the mobile-payment network provider announced Nov. 15.

Vendors’ smart card shipments could reach 7 billion next year, up 16.7% from 6 billion this year, fueled primarily by strong smart card growth in Latin America and China, vendor trade group Eurosmart announced Nov. 15 at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris.

The Central Bank of Nigeria reportedly is in talks with the Nigerian Postal Services to use of the bank’s branches as outposts to promote mobile payments.

The Reserve Bank of India has authorized the transferring of funds from ATMs to mobile phones as part of an expansion of the country’s Interbank Mobile Payment Service, India’s central bank announced Nov. 9.

More consumers are accessing their credit card accounts online, but only a small percentage are using mobile applications to do so, new research suggests.

With questions about mobile-wallet use at the point of sale centering on technology, security, payment accounts and software applications, banks should focus on pushing Near Field Communication development to ensure they play a vital role in the future of mobile payments, a new study suggests.

Alternative-payments providers such as PayPal Inc., ProPay Inc., Square Inc. and SparkBase Inc. may be better-positioned than traditional payment card networks to cause the marketplace disruption needed to make mobile payments more mainstream, an Aite Group analyst suggests in a new report.

PayPal Inc. plans to provide a mobile payments system that would enable Chinese game developers on the Android mobile platform to tap new international markets including North America and Europe, the company recently announced.

The burgeoning growth of mobile payments could become the tipping point for proposed national legislation that would force merchants to charge state sales taxes for the first time on many goods and services sold through online channels, a national tax expert tells PaymentsSource.

U.S. consumer interest in using mobile phones to make purchases and in receiving incentives and coupons to shop at retailers has doubled since last year, new research suggests.

After analyzing the mobile-banking offerings of the top 25 retail banks by deposits, Javelin Strategy & Research has declared that JPMorgan Chase & Co. has the best, followed closely by Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp.