Vodafone’s M-Pesa launches in Europe

Vodafone’s Money Transfer, commonly known as M-PESA, is a highly successful money transfer service which has arrived in Europe after being launched in Romania yesterday. The service enables users who do not have a bank account, or limited access to one, to send and receive money, top-up air time, make bill payments and make a…

Mobile payments

Fortumo Brings Mobile Payments to Indonesia

On the 10th December Fortumo, a mobile payments provider, launched mobile operator billing in Indonesia. Founded in 2007, Fortumo is “the most developer-friendly mobile payments provider”, enabling developers to earn money from users who purchase their apps and games which are charged to the users’ mobile phone bill. Indonesia is the fourth largest country by…

G&D launches MAGnite: Banknote authentication with mobile phones

Yesterday Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) presented their latest technology to fight against banknote counterfeiters at the Banknote 2012 conference in Washington D.C. A press release was also issued by the company detailing their new product: MAGnite. This banknote security feature uses “high performance pigments that allow reversible changes between two colour states” when in range…