MasterCard Inc. announced on Wednesday the launch in the United States of a person-to-person payment service for mobile phones, called MoneySend. According to the company the new service is based on its established MoneySend P2P platform, and has been developed in partnership with Obopay. The new MasterCard MoneySend is an SMS...

MasterCard has announced that their fully-integrated, on-demand person-to-person (P2P) mobile payment platform for issuers in the United States is set to go live later this month. With this new platform, MasterCard participating bank customers will be able to offer Mobile MasterCard MoneySend P2P payments to their customers. Mobile MoneySend is the breakthrough consumer payment platform that provi...

Last time we mentioned Obopay, they announced a new round of investment. This time, it's MasterCard that is announcing a partnership with the mobile payment provider, to give its customers the "ability to provide an innovative mobile payments service to their MasterCard cardholders on all credit, debit and prepaid MasterCard-branded products." The announcement of this service

Financial services provider Citi announced the launch of a new mobile person-to-person money transfer service developed in conjunction with mobile payments service provider Obopay. According to Citi, the service--launching Tuesday for all Citibank customers in the United States, with a focus on the Boston, Chicago, Maryland, Philadelphia and New Jersey markets--heralds the U.S.'s first real-t...

NFC trials are nothing new, both in the United States and abroad, but it's interesting to know that the testing is getting more and more popular. The latest includes Nokia, a usual suspect, along with Mastercard and U.S. Bank, in the Spokane, WA area. NFC, or Near-Field Communications, allows two equipped devices to exchange information

There have been several small trials of mobile phone based NFC payment systems across the United States in the past but it has never been launched on a wide scale so they can actually become usable. It now appears Canada is taking up the same trails with the help of MasterCard, with a variation of its

MasterCard offers issuers in the U.S. the ability to provide customers person-to-person payments using their mobile phones PURCHASE, N.Y., -- MasterCard (NYSE: MA) announced that their fully-integrated, on-demand person-to-person (P2P) mobile payment platform for issuers in the United States is set to go live later this month. With this new platform, MasterCard participating bank customers will......

MasterCard introduced the MasterCard Mobile Payments Gateway, a mobile payments processing platform that enables financial institutions and mobile operators to deliver end-to-end mobile payments solutions through the MasterCard Worldwide Network. And the first partners that will use the new service is already on board Brazils Itau Unibanco and Redecard, along with mobile operator Vivo. Using

Financial services giant MasterCard Worldwide announced the launch of its MasterCard Over-the-Air Provisioning Service, a program enabling issuers to personalize cardholders' mobile devices via one-step, over-the-air process. With the MasterCard Over-the-Air Provisioning Service, issuers can more efficiently implement contactless PayPass solutions with minimal effort, enabling NFC-enabled mob...

MasterCard Worldwide today announced the availability of the MasterCard ATM Hunter application for BlackBerry smartphones.Continue reading...