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The mobile payments (mobile payments news) sweepstakes underway sometimes seems to offer little to big banks. They are not seen as the prime force when it comes to the inchoate mobile payments... Read more...

We've long thought that as more mobile applications ramp up to the actual marketing phase, we'll see more firms touting their security features (financial mobile services news). Consumer fear often... Read more...

American Express generated headlines when it announced it would buy Revolution Money, a start-up controlled by Steve Case, of AOL fame. The firms offers a unique card that seems to blend the idea of... Read more...

The industry has been talking about mobile payments for a while now. There has certainly been a lot of jockeying among merchants, banks, card processors and others. So far the technology resides... Read more...

All the talk about the rise of mobile banking--in fits and starts--reflects the fact that technology driven services can find rapid uptake in the financial services industry. Debit cards are one... Read more...

At Visa and Deloitte, IT employees will be given a special visa card that include an actual alpha-numeric display, microprocessor, keypad and battery. If a user enters a PIN into the card, the... Read more...

Is start-up Noca onto something in the payments industry? It certainly thinks so. It just launched a "financial interchange platform" that will charge radically low fees: Just 0.25 percent of the... Read more...