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China to announce mobile payment standard soon
According to the Marbridge Daily, China will soon announce a specification for its national mobile payment standard. The standard, which has already been drafted, could come as early as this year. The news came out of last week's fifth annual China …
Mastercard, China CITIC Bank sign agreement to develop new payment products
China CITIC Bank and MasterCard have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the virtual payments space within and outside of China. According to the announcement, the partners will develop products such as QR-code …
WeChat to offer 300M subscribers mobile payments
Three hundred million chat users are about to get a mobile payment tool. This according to news site Sohu via Asian tech site TechNode. Developers from WeChat, a popular cross-platform chat tool in China, said the service will be launching a mobile …
PayPal Here to enter Japan
PayPal has announced a full-scale rollout of its mobile POS solution, PayPal Here, in Japan. The rollout will include a partnership with Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank. The solution will be available to merchants and small businesses …
Australian grocery chain begins small scale mobile payment test
Austrailian supermarket chain Coles is testing a mobile payment and loyalty solution. It's a small test, involving only 60 people, and the company is hedging on whether or not the effort points towards a larger rollout any time soon. It did say it …
Commentary: Empowering women with mobile money, the Papua New Guinea report
	This article is part of a five-part series exploring the role of mobile financial services in developing countries and is based on work being done by the GSMA mWomen Programme, Visa Inc. and Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA) in five key countries …
ICICI Bank and Aircel providing mobile money solution to India's underserved
ICICI Bank of India, the country's largest private sector bank, is launching Mobile Money with wireless provider Aircel. The program, aimed at the nation's financially underserved population, will run on card brand Visa's platform. Mobile Money will …
Taiwan's carriers get approval for a mobile payment JV
A new joint venture between Taiwan's wireless carriers has been approved by that nation's regulators. According to Taiwan's Central News Agency, the country's Fair Trade Commission approved the application by Taiwan's five carriers and Taiwanese …
First Vodafone, Visa mobile wallet to launch in Australia in 2013
Wireless provider Vodafone and payment brand Visa announced a partnership earlier this year aimed at rolling out a mobile wallet tool to a number of countries. Today, Vodafone Australia and Visa said they plan to launch an app for NFC-enabled mobile …
MoreMagic, Splash expand mobile money system in Sierra Leone
Splash Mobile Money Ltd. and MoreMagic Solutions are expanding the Splash Mobile Money ecosystem in Sierra Leone to make it more useful. Now, users will be able to make payments to the country's satellite provider; receive disbursements and make …

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