http://www.ovsea.com Mobile Payment, Mobile News, Mobile Remittance, Mobile Solutions, Mobile Technology, Mobile Coupons Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:12:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/debit-cards-overtake-cash-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/debit-cards-overtake-cash-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:12:08 +0000 mobile news Cash has finally succumbed to the rise of the debit card in the UK according to a recent announcement from the UK Payments Council. Sandra Quinn, Director of Communications, Payments Council explained: “Cash is too cumbersome for many consumers these days – they prefer a card for anything more than the smallest transactions. We now expect our debit cards to be accepted everywhere we go – in pubs and clubs, at the corner shop, online and on the high street. Having quickly supplanted cheques, then claimed the scalp of credit cards, they have now usurped cash’s throne too.”

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/debit-cards-overtake-cash-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/travelex-offers-america%e2%80%99s-first-chip-pin-enabled-prepaid-foreign-currency-card/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/travelex-offers-america%e2%80%99s-first-chip-pin-enabled-prepaid-foreign-currency-card/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:12:01 +0000 mobile news Travelex has announced availability of “America’s first prepaid foreign ‘currency cards’ available in Euros and British Pounds that utilizes chip & PIN technology.” Travelex’s new Chip & PIN Cash Passport™ MasterCard provides Americans traveling abroad with technological compatibility with overseas merchants that have migrated towards chip-based transactions. The card will also include a traditional magnetic stripe, for those merchants not yet using Chip & PIN technology.

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/travelex-offers-america%e2%80%99s-first-chip-pin-enabled-prepaid-foreign-currency-card/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/secure-vault-payments-gaining-traction-in-southeastern-edu-market-for-online-tuition-payments/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/secure-vault-payments-gaining-traction-in-southeastern-edu-market-for-online-tuition-payments/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:12:00 +0000 mobile news eWise has announced that Auburn University and Columbus State University have joined the University of Georgia in accepting Secure Vault PaymentsTM (SVP) for tuition payments. “Secure Vault Payments is a great solution for us,” said Lisa McCleary, bursar, University of Georgia. “SVP is a smarter electronic payment option that lowers our risk, allows us to receive money faster, and helps us keep costly and wasteful paper out of our system.” Since implementing SVP, UGA has seen strong utilization rates among enabled students with 17% using SVP to pay their tuition and 48% using SVP more than 5 times.

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/secure-vault-payments-gaining-traction-in-southeastern-edu-market-for-online-tuition-payments/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/mobile-payment-videos-we-like/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/mobile-payment-videos-we-like/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:12:03 +0000 mobile news Curious about mobile payments, but tired of reading the small print? Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson has compiled a collection of how-they-work videos. Included are videos from Bling Nation, PayNearMe, Square, BOKU, Intuit GoPayment, PayPal Mobile, VivoTech, Oberthur, MobilePay, MocaPay, and FaceCash.

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/current-opportunities-on-paymentsjobs-com/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/survey-says-22-of-americans-have-opted-in-for-debit-card-overdraft-protection/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/survey-says-22-of-americans-have-opted-in-for-debit-card-overdraft-protection/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:11:34 +0000 mobile news A recent national poll by the Consumer Reports National Research Center has found that 22% of bank customers holding an ATM or debit card have chosen to opt-in to debit card overdraft protection. “A large majority of poll respondents said they wanted the same right to choose whether to be covered by fee-based overdraft programs for check transactions.”

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/survey-says-22-of-americans-have-opted-in-for-debit-card-overdraft-protection/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/reminder-paypal-x-platform-tuesday-november-23-1030-am-pacific/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/reminder-paypal-x-platform-tuesday-november-23-1030-am-pacific/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:11:47 +0000 mobile news Glenbrook’s next Payments Essentials webinar is next Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:45 AM PST. The topic for this session is the PayPal X Platform – what it is and where it fits in PayPal’s strategy. Glenbrook’s Russ Jones participated in PayPal X Innovate 2010 and will be discussing PayPal’s progress with its developers platform since it was launched in 2009. Registration ($149) details are here.

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]]> http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/reminder-paypal-x-platform-tuesday-november-23-1030-am-pacific/feed/ 0 http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/global-payments-and-la-caixa-form-merchant-acquiring-joint-venture-in-spain/ http://www.ovsea.com/mobile-payment/global-payments-and-la-caixa-form-merchant-acquiring-joint-venture-in-spain/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:11:39 +0000 mobile news Global Payments and “la Caixa,” the largest retail bank in Spain, have announced they are forming a merchant acquiring and payment processing joint venture in Spain. “la Caixa”, headquartered in Barcelona, was founded over a century ago, and is the market leader in Spanish merchant acquiring with over 150,000 merchant outlets. “la Caixa” also has the largest consumer banking footprint in Spain with more than 5,000 branches, 10.5 million customers and a 21 percent market share in merchant acquiring.

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