Given the degree of ‘cool’ with which Apple endows nearly all it does, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago, NFC based mobile payments were viewed as a missed opportunity, strangled at birth by the inability of banks and MNOs to agree business terms. Now, thanks to HCE and to Apple Pay,…
By Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director, Mobey Forum The big guns – Apple, Samsung and Google – are dominating the mobile payments news cycle now that their respective ‘Pay’ platforms threaten to disintermediate the world’s banks. They won’t have it all their own way, though; banks are responding with their own platforms. But is it…
Association releases industry survey analysing the current status of biometrics in financial services, its drivers and obstacles 01 July 2015 – The financial services industry must set aside competition and collaborate on biometrics to ensure consistent, easy and convenient services for end users. These are the findings of a survey published today by Mobey Forum,…
For years authentication has been a thorny issue for banks and financial institutions, particularly in the world of mobile services. To date, these organisations have focused on building two of the three primary sources of authentication data into their products and services, namely ‘something you know’, like a password, and ‘something you have’, like a payment card. The desire to raise the level of user convenience for mobile authentication…