Monitise

Visa has added mobile services to its Visa DPS issuer processing platform. The new features, developed by Monitise, allow US financial institutions to offer account holders the ability to monitor account history and balances, transfer... More

Inside Secure has been included in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The French company, which is expected to... More

The patent covers a way to enable shoppers to create and use a 'virtual payment card' so they can make payments in shops and online with their mobile phone without divulging their card details. More

The credit card giant has acquired mobile payments firm Fundamo and extended its deal with Monitise with the aim of making transactions on any device "safe, easy and reliable," says Visa's head of mobile. More

NFC tops the list of new services that will drive 50% of British consumers to adopt mobile banking by 2014, new research from Monitise and the Future Foundation has found. More

Visa Europe will invest €100 million a year in commercially launching mobile payments and developing its e-commerce services, the firm's chief executive has confirmed. Peter Ayliffe said the card payment giant had experienced double-digit growth... More

NFC and contactless specialist Vivotech is planning an initial public offering (IPO) as early as 2012, CEO Mick Mullagh has told Bloomberg Business Week. The company — which one analyst believes could be valued at... More

Mobile Money Network, the joint venture established in November 2010 between Best Buy Europe, Monitise and Charles Dunstone, founder of Carphone Warehouse, has announced its mobile payments service is to be called Simply Tap. Although... More

Visa Europe has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Monitise to develop and supply mobile payments services for Visa Europe's member banks and financial institutions across Europe. "Monitise will act as an advanced development engine... More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: ATM top-ups for travel cards • Visa adds mobile app • New boss for Mobey Forum • Washington Metro to go contactless • Square worth $200M? • Madrid picks Mifare Desfire EV1 • Think&Go NFC gets funding • Enstream adds Western Union to Zoompass • All Google staff to get NFC phones? More

Monitise and Vivotech have partnered to offer banks in the United States an NFC payments solution that combines Vivotech's over-the-air (OTA) software and Monitise's Mobile Money technology. "The partnership means customers of participating banks will... More

US Bank has begun a field trial of microSD format NFC devices. Employees in a number of US states will begin piloting the technology this month and plans call for the trial to be opened... More

"I remain highly confident in Visa's long-term growth and innovation strategy, including our plans to continue work with our partners to accelerate the adoption and usage of mobile payments," writes Bill Gajda, the company's head of global mobile product, in a post on the official Visa blog. More

NFC is likely to play a key role in the new venture as Monitise has already partnered with Visa and DeviceFidelity to integrate near field communication into its Mobile Money Manager platform. More

Mobile payments provider Monitise has partnered with DeviceFidelity to add support for Visa payWave contactless transactions to its Mobile Money Manager technology platform, used by 250 financial institutions around the world. Monitise's platform enables financial... More

DeviceFidelity has signed up the first licensees for its microSD format NFC solution, UK mobile payments provider Monitise and US mobile solutions provider Ecrio, and has announced version 2 of its In2Pay product, adding support... More

The first trials of a Visa-backed NFC add-on will begin during the second quarter of 2010. More

Anyone who expected to visit Cartes 2008 and find just the odd NFC application hidden somewhere round the back of a small stand lost in the outer reaches of the exhibition hall was in for quite a surprise — Near Field Communications World spotted forty companies talking NFC at this year's event... More