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1. Have Cell Phone, Need Bank: Nokia Makes Mobile Play for Unbanked, by Nathan Conz, Bank Systems & Technology, 12-16-2009 Conz describes Nokia Money, a new offering that will deliver basic financial services capabilities to cell phone users. The service will allow individuals to send money via their cell phone to other mobile users in markets that are otherwise cash-based.
2. Can Amazon's PayPhrase Combine Convenience with Security?, by Robert Lemos, Technology Review, 11-3-2009 Lemos describes Amazon's latest payment technology, PayPhrase, that lets customers buy from Amazon and affiliated merchants by using 2 or more words and a 4-digit password.
3. PayPal Unveils Plans To Open Payment Service, by Antone Gonsalves, Information Week, 11-4-2009 Gonsalves describes PayPal X, a service designed to allow developers to more easily integrate the payment service into third-party applications and eliminate the need for a separate window allowing customers to complete a transaction.
4. Facebook Testing Mobile Payments, by Marin Perez, Information Week, 8-27-2009 The social network is enabling some users to buy Facebook Credits with their mobile phones instead of a credit card, Perez writes. Initially, the mobile credits cost twice as much as those purchased with credit cards due to revenue-sharing agreements.
5. MasterCard Intros Mobile Payment Platform, by Marin Perez, Information Week, 6-17-2009 Perez describes MoneySend as a technology collaboration with Obopay that lets customers send and receive funds through multiple media, including text messages, mobile browsers, dedicated mobile applications, and a desktop PC.
6. Virtual Currencies Gain in Popularity, by Olga Kharif, Business Week, 5-6-2009 Gaming companies, startups and social networks are developing "cash" technologies for online transactions, Kharif reports, as these and other Web sites want to make it easier for users to spend money, carry out other transactions while online.
7. EBay's Big Plans for PayPal, by Peter Burrows, Business Week, 3-8-2009 There are plenty of trends running in PayPal's favor. Even in the U.S., where PayPal is strongest, its share of online payments is just 12%, writes Burrows. However, PayPal is growing in Europe because it simplifies cross-border transactions.
8. Mazooma Gives Online Shoppers another Payment Choice, by Kristina Knight, Biz Report, 2-12-2009 Etailers now have another choice when it comes to online payments. Online payment source Mazooma has launched a secure, real-time payment solution which gives consumers the ability to buy without a credit card, Knight reports.
9. Electronic Invoicing Gets the Job Done Efficiently, by Dave Lindeen, Destination CRM, 12-1-2008 Lindeen explains how Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) provides companies with a comprehensive approach to electronically manage invoice data, disputes, approvals, payment disbursement, and payment reconciliation.
10. More Insurers Realizing Benefits of e-Payments and Remote Deposit Capture Technology, by Nathan Conz, Insurance & Technology, 11-10-2008 With increased broadband penetration, consumers have begun to expect electronic payment capabilities. And insurers are beginning to learn the benefits of meeting those expectations, reports Conz.
11. MasterCard Strengthens Its Mobile Services, by Marin Perez, Information Week, 10-31-2008 The company's over-the-air provisioning service lets card issuers transfer a PayPass application onto handsets that are equipped with Near Field Communication technology. A customer could then personalize their payment account over a mobile network.
12. Zuora Automates Subscription Billing and Payments, by Josh Catone, Site Point, 10-9-2008 Just as PayPal makes it easy to accept online payments, Zuora’s vision is to make it easy for any company to build, manage, and grow a subscription business, Catone reports.
13. Company Offers 'Single-Click' Mobile Purchasing, by Marin Perez, Information Week, 9-5-2008 Billing Revolution's billing platform is designed to make it easier for customers to use their cell phones to buy products. Merchants avoid paying high carrier fees, and it saves them from having to develop a credit card checkout platform.
14. Amazon Offers Online Payment Service For E-Commerce Sites, by Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 7-30-2008 The online retail site offers Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. The two services are designed to help Web sites sell items online with the same low-friction experience offered by Amazon on its own site, Claburn reports.
15. Struggling Banks Turn To Social Networking, by Richard Martin, Information Week, 7-30-2008 Battered by the cratering home mortgage market and seeking ways to attract younger consumers, financial institutions are exploring online social networking as a way to acquire and retain customers. Example: a Facebook application called MyMoney.
16. From Plastic to Pixels, by Steve Smith, OMMA Magazine, 8-1-2008 Discusses online payment company PayPal's marketing tasks, non-eBay relationships.
17. EBay's Profitable Pal, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 1-28-2008 Experts point to 3 main drivers for alternative payments, such as PayPal, to credit cards: concern over fraud risk, growth in merchant participation, and fear of, or lack of access to, credit cards.
18. PayPal, E-payments Gain Online Ground, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 11-21-2007 Internet-based payment services are growing in popularity, as PayPal and others capitalize on fear of identity theft and payment fraud. PayPal offers tools to consumers to use its service even when the merchant does not accept PayPal.
19. E-Billing: First Step Toward E-Business, by Michael Vizard, Baseline, 7-7-2007 Eliminating paper bills can help provide a clearer overview of business processes, says Vizard. Explains how some companies discovered that automating the billing process can be just the beginning of improving processes.
20. No Credit Card? No Problem. Bill2Phone Lets Customers Tack Online Purchases Onto Their Phone Bill, by Michael LoPresti, EContent, 8-24-2007 Bill2Phone is a real-time payment solution that offers online merchants, content aggregators, and e-wallet providers the ability to process payments through a consumer’s phone bill. The company has partnerships with over 1,400 local phone companies.
21. The Bank of PayPal, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 6-15-2007 With new security steps and plans for a debit card, eBay's online payment service is taking on its finance rivals. In Europe, it's even got a banking license, reports Holahan.
22. Retail Payments Business Moving More Toward Mobile, by Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology, 3-30-2007 Banks are under pressure to provide multiple payments options, including wireless, to keep customers from going to the bank down the street or even to a nontraditional financial services provider.
23. Get Rich (or at Least Paid) Quick, by Michael Calore, Wired, 9-28-2006 Calore reports on ChaCha Search, a site offering human-assisted guided search that is introducing an instant-payment system that would offer its contracted guides the option of being compensated for their time immediately through debit cards.
24. Americans Ready for Mobile Payments: Visa, by Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology, 7-25-2006 A survey of 800 consumers conducted by Visa USA illustrates the increasing allure of mobile phones in this country and consumers' desire to do more with them, including payments.
25. Solve the Payment Processing Problem, by John Conde, Site Point, 7-5-2006 After introducing the concept of third-party processors, Conde conducts a dollar-for-dollar comparison of methods using different case studies for various merchant types, and his own calculator.
26. Prosper's Peer-To-Peer Lending Promises An eBay For Money, by Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 5-22-2006 Discusses Prosper and Zopa, companies set up to allow groups of people coming together online to lend up to $25,000 to someone they don't know, eliminating the bank middleman. Both are planning on integrating social finance with social networking.
27. Biometrics: Payments at Your Fingertips, by Alex Halperin, Business Week, 3-28-2006 Describes Pay By Touch, which specializes in biometrics, including fingerprints, irises, palms, and voices. Future plans: customers may use fingerprints to make online purchases using the sensors available on some laptops.
28. Need An Easier Way To Spend Money? PayPal's Trying, by Elena Malykhina, Information Week, 3-27-2006 Cell phones are getting so smart, why not let them pay the bills? That's PayPal's reasoning with an upcoming service that will let its customers use text messaging on their phones to make payments.
29. Low Value, Big Potential, Bigger Problems, by Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology, 1-3-2006 Cash is the final frontier in the banking industry's quest to electronify payments. Despite efforts to entice consumers to give up their wads of bills, a recent study claims that no one has found the right formula for doing so.
30. Plastic's Online Payment Challenger, by , CIO Today, 12-30-2005 Describes the Bill Me Later payment system, used at 230 e-commerce sites including Wal-Mart and Priceline. Consumers are asked for only two bits of information: date of birth and the last four digits of the purchaser's Social Security number.
31. Plastic's Online Payment Challenger, by Gary Marino, CIO Today, 12-30-2005 "credit cards weren't designed to be used online," says Marino. Describes his Bill Me Later payment system that is said to be catching on with online merchants and shoppers.
32. Money Ain't What It Used To Be, by Michael Mandel, Business Week, 1-9-2006 For the first time, stand-alone digital currencies have real customers, even if some of those customers may engage in illicit activities, Mandel reports.
33. Dr. Jackson's Golden Vision, by Brian Grow, Business Week, 1-9-2006 Grow interviews founder of e-gold, discussing the origin of e-gold, how it is regulated, and his effort to fend off critics.
34. Taking the 'I' out of Identity, by Sean McGrath, IT world, 1-10-2006 McGrath explores the assumption that to do business electronically with someone, you need to know who they are, that is, "guaranteeing that a visitor to our web site is who they say they are."
35. A New Way to Pay, by Samar Farah, CMO Magazine, 12-1-2005 EToys Direct, a Web retailer, introduced Bill Me Later in 2004, a payment method that lets visitors make purchases online, without disclosing private financial information, and pay later. Farah describes how it works.
36. Put your Money where your Mouse Is: 6 Payment Gateways Reviewed, by John Conde, Site Point, 9-21-2005 One of the most important decisions you'll face is to choose a gateway to handle your credit card payments, says Conde. Takes an in-depth look at some of the popular gateways and explore the ins and outs of the services they provide.
37. UPS Delivers Real Presence for Virtual Bank, by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Baseline Magazine, 9-7-2005 Discusses partnership of online bank with UPS to give its retail package delivery service customers a place to deposit checks and cut processing times to a day or two instead of a week.
38. Balancing Act, by Phil Britt, Bank Systems & Technology, 5-4-2005 Britt discusses how banks must weigh paper-based workflows as they guide corporate clients toward e-payments.
39. E-Deposits Over The Internet, by Elena Malykhina, Information Week, 4-4-2005 Discusses Wells Fargo & Co.'s Desktop Deposit service, a check processing services available to merchants online through a portal.
40. An End-to-End Payment Framework, by Joe Lott, Line56, 3-8-2005 Looks at the 5 critical business areas relating to wholesale payments in the financial industry. Notes that real-time information services are a necessity for banks to view a customer's information across accounts and across payment applications.
41. Complexity Theory, by Ivan Schneider, Bank Systems & Technology, 1-30-2005 Expert says "The movement to electronics has a lot of moving parts to it that have to be well-managed. All of these trends are more complex than we thought they were."
42. Biller-Direct: Separating Truth From Fiction, by Elizabeth Robertson, Bank Systems & Technology Online, 11-23-2004 During 2004, more than 90% of the bills presented online will be delivered at biller Web sites, evidence that the so-called biller-direct model has consumer support. Looks at 5 rationales for claiming success and the fiction behind them.
43. Gone in 60 Seconds, by Ivan Schneider, Bank Systems & Technology, 10-28-2004 While banks can enhance their Internet bill payment sites, there's an undeniable first-mover advantage to issuing token devices. Reports AOL's plan to issue its customers PassCode secure token devices.
44. PayPal Set to Fine Users, by Susan Kuchinskas, Internet News.com, 9-23-2004 Kuchinskas discusses PayPal's intent to levy $500 fines for users who persist in using its service to pay for forbidden goods and services in the mature audiences, prescription drugs and gambling categories.
45. Survey: B2B Payments Moving Online, by Kimberly Hill, CRM Daily, 8-24-2004 An overwhelming majority of business-to-business (B2B) transactions still occur on paper, about 80%. Survey reports that companies are moving toward electronic invoicing presentment and payment (EIPP).
46. Online Bill Pay Adds to the Bottom Line, by Vicki Gerson, Bank ystems & Technology, 8-5-2004 Because creating an online bill payment system can be complicated and expensive, financial institutions are seeking a solution that turns online bill pay into a profitable endeavor and improves customer satisfaction.
47. PayPal Wants to Pal Around With Larger Merchants, Banks, by Ivan Schneider, Bank Systems & Technology, 7-5-2004 Reports that for entities wanting to connect directly into PayPal, the company has now made it easier to do so using Web services technologies.
48. Micropayments Market Will Reach $11.5 Billion By 2009, by , Internet Week, 8-12-2004 Electronic payment for digital music is the largest market for micropayments in 2004. The biggest challenge for this market is said to be developing solutions to handle high-volume, time-sensitive transactions both securely and cost effectively.
49. AOL Introduces Free Online Bill Payment Service, by Cynthia Ramsaran, Bank Systems & Technology, 6-2-2004 Paying bills online has been popular with AOL customers, as over 50% of AOL customers pay their bills online. Explains that online bill payment leads to Web-based financial management.
50. Checks Check Out, by Andrew Park, Business Week, 5-10-2004 Handling an online payment costs only 10 cents, roughly one-third that of processing a paper check. In addition to cost savings, online bill payers are more loyal. Park notes that even when payments are not made online, paper checks are going digital.