European eTailers Want 'Proven' e-Services
European businesses are wrongly prioritizing IT investment for eCommerce success in favor of devising robust strategies and validating their online presence, according to Datamonitor. After interviewi...
IDC: EBPP 'Competitive Necessity' For Banks
A new IDC bulletin, "Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment: US Forecast and Analysis", advises US banks that EBPP is a 'competitive necessity' to sustain profitable customer relationships. With the ...
Schlumberger Anticipates Demand For WIM
According to Marcos Fernandes, Schlumberger's director of mobile communications, the firm has devised its WIM-based WAP security solution in anticipation of demand from handset vendors and GSM carrier...
Banks To Use Mini-Cards In mCommerce?
Nokia's director of e-Business, Martti Granberg, has revealed a number of European banks to be interested in handsets that accommodate miniature credit or debit cards for mCommerce
Web merchants in Latin America need to equip their sites with technology for secure transactions and to address logistics issues for optimal success, according to IDC analyst, Annika Alford. Latin B2C...
The concept of account aggregation enraged major US banks only a few months ago, but once the merits of aggregation became clear, those banks started partnering with the start-ups that threatened thei...
Banking consumers in 10 countries are not yet ready to trade online transactions for traditional teller service, according to a new Deloitte Consulting survey, "Myth Versus Reality in Financial Servic...
With Jupiter Communications tipping B2B commerce to dominate the Internet by 2004, Steve Ellis, of Wells Fargo, concedes that exchanges face a "financial risk involving payments and credit transaction...
Providian, the fifth largest credit card issuer in the US, last week made history with Visa by conducting the first 'smart
While Jupiter analyst, Lucas Graves, criticizes US banks for failing to "insinuate themselves into the online buying process", he notes their Latin counterparts to be more aggressive in this endeavor....
Wireless analyst, Alan Reiter, tells of a global bank that contracted with an overseas wireless carrier for banking services, only to find that 20 per cent of the bank's customers used that carrier's ...
Yesterday's legalization of digital signatures "won't have an earthquake effect", says Bob Pratt, of VeriSign, but does mean that credit card firms will now have to honor online transactions. Until no...
Sonera SmartTrust has launched SmartTrust TopUp, termed as 'the first mass-market mobile payment service', to enable carriers to add wireless banking and EBPP to their services. The solution, which sc...
Given that the average cost of acquiring an online customer runs at between USD 50 to USD 300, Gartner Group's Geri
Gartner Group's Avivah Litan dismisses the Internet credit cards from Capital One, Citibank and AmEx as "psychological
With the total number of cell phones in use in the Latin America/Caribbean region having doubled between 1998 and 2000,
A paltry 4 per cent of banks moving online, give priority to Internet security, a fact causing Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, to conclude that Internet banks are 'failing their customers'. Rather, analyst ...
Many online payment systems "developed over the past several years were cobbled together by technology based on the old
With eMarketer predicting mCommerce revenues to grow from USD 0.8 billion in 2000, to USD 38.8 billion in 2005, several solution providers are working to improve the security of wireless transactions....
From October 1, 2000, digital signatures will become legally binding in the US, with Bill Brice, CEO of AlphaTrust, believing them to become "as essential a business tool as e-mail" within three to fi...
IDC: Latin Service Vendors Are Big Winners
Banks, Tech Firms Partner On Aggregation
Bank Customers Not Ready To Move Online
Card Firms Risk Losing Out In B2B Payments
Providian, Visa Conduct First Chip Payment
Latin Banks Buttress Role As Trusted Hosts
Exclusivity Defeats Purpose Of mCommerce
Digital IDs Do Not Give Iron-Clad Guarantee
SmartTrust Unveils Mobile Payment Product
Speedy Card Verification 'Key' To Success
Gartner: Web Credit Cards 'Are Gimmicks'
Latin Banks Investing In Wireless Services
Banks 'Shelve Security In Rush Online'
New ePayment Systems 'Would Beat Fraud'
Voice Verification Closes mCommerce Loop
E-Signatures 'As Essential As E-Mail' By 2003