77 results about this entity
Period: 18 Oct 2004 - 19 Jan 2024
News
Vodafone has teamed up with payments firm Powa Technologies to enable UK pay as you go customers to top up their credit via QR codes.
03 August 2015
Vodafone India has struck a deal with Walmart to enable small firms that use the US retail giant's wholesale stores to make payments through M-Pesa.
10 July 2015
Vodafone's Turkish arm is using technology from EyeVerify to enable customers to open its mobile wallet simply by looking at their handsets.
08 June 2015
O2 has bought out its partners in the Weve mobile commerce consortium and will run the business as a standalone subsidiary.
06 May 2015
Company announcement
Customers of M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money in East Africa will be able to transfer money to each other following an agreement between Vodafone Group and MTN Group to interconnect their mobile money services.
22 April 2015
Vodafone customers in Europe will be able to add bank cards to their Vodafone digital wallets from Q2 2015, after an agreement with Visa and Carta Worldwide.
30 March 2015
Finextra TV
Vincenzo Scarlato, head of innovation & new products, Vodafone Italy, discusses the situation of mobile payments in Italy, the central platform for banks and telcos to connect with and the significance of Apple Pay for the market.
20 October 2014
With a European e-money license under its belt, carrier billing outfit Boku is partnering with three of the UK's leading wireless operators to expand into the fully-regulated mobile payments market.
02 October 2014
Vodafone has added a feature to its mobile wallet which lets customers store all of their loyalty cards on their handset.
09 May 2014
Having transformed Kenya's financial services industry, mobile money system M-Pesa is coming to Europe, with Romania the first stop.
31 March 2014
Vodafone's head of m-commerce in Spain has moved to allay fears that Visa and MasterCard's recently announced support for Host Card Emulation could hurt telcos' efforts to prosper in the mobile money arena, insisting to Finextra that HCE is "good news".
26 February 2014
Ibo Sanz, in-country mobile commerce director, Vodafone Spain, talks about the Vodafone SmartPass strategy, the recent Host Card Emulation announcements and partnerships with La Caixa and Visa.
MasterCard is partnering with leading German telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone to develop a mass market mobile payments network covering 80% of handset-owners in the country.
25 February 2014
Vodafone has struck a deal with MoneyGram which will enable people to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to users of the M-Pesa mobile money service.
11 February 2014
Spanish bank la Caixa has brought on board three of the country's biggest telcos - Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange - for the January launch of its mobile NFC payments service.
17 December 2013
The Reserve Bank of India has set up a Technical Committee on Mobile Banking to examine the feasibility of introducing encrypted SMS-based funds transfers across all mobile handsets.
10 October 2013
Hackers have gained access to a Vodafone Germany server and stolen the personal data - including bank account information - of two million customers.
12 September 2013
SmartPass, the mobile contactless payments service developed by telco giant Vodafone with Visa will make its debut in Spain by the end of year ahead of a wider rollout.
04 September 2013
Kenyan bitcoin wallet Kipochi has launched a service which enables people to send and receive the virtual currency and convert it to and from an M-Pesa balance.
08 July 2013
Backed by major banks and telcos, the Amsterdam arm of Startupbootcamp has launched an NFC and contactless offering, inviting young firms to pitch for a place on a three month programme with access to funding, workspace and specialist advice.
18 April 2013
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