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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Headline News is compiled by Glenbrook Partners: Voila & Unibank Receive All Regulatory Approvals to Launch First Mobile Money Solution in Haiti Zuora Delivers Z-Payments 3.0 Subscription Billing Solution Sentenial and ING launch SEPA mandate management solution for corporates across Europe PayPal Blog: Payments – Coming to a TV Near You Soon? Note: Throughout the day, as we spot interesting developments, this post is updated.

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PlaySpan has announced the launch of UltimatePay Mobile, a “virtual currency and micropayments monetization widget for leading smartphone platforms.” The initial private beta launch will support HTML5, and is designed to work on all Android* smartphones, as well as Nokia phones with WebRuntime installed.

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Doctor’s Associates, the parent company of SUBWAY, and Think Computer Corporation have announced that FaceCash will now be accepted at certain SUBWAY locations in California. FaceCash is a mobile payment system that allows consumers to use their cell phones to make purchases at the point of sale. “FaceCash gets its name from its unique security process. During a purchase, the consumer’s face appears on the merchant’s register to verify identity.”

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MTN Group, the leading mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East, and Western Union have announced a commercial agreement to introduce international mobile remittance services in the 21 countries where MTN operates. This will allow MTN subscribers to send and receive Western Union Money Transfer transactions using their MTN MobileMoney accounts.

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Headline News is compiled by Glenbrook Partners: Vindicia Secures $20 Million in Series E Financing iPhone Credit Card Swiper Adds Retail Transaction Support to Swipe Credit Card Terminal Square Enix Selects PlaySpan’s UltimatePay for Payment Processing Services TransCard Announces a Turnkey Bank and Prepaid Processing Solution for Members of the Prepaid Community European Specialists Team Up to Define Security Standards for Next-Generation Mobile Devices TechCrunch: Amazon Now Allows You To Send Gift Cards To Friends On Facebook Note: Throughout the day, as we spot interesting developments, this post is updated.

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Dublin, Ireland – “Payments in a Mobile World” (New Workshop!) November 17th & 18th – Registration Euro 1195 Santa Clara, California – “Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp” December 8th & 9th – Registration $1995 Glenbrook Payments Essentials Webinars – Registration $149 This week – “Essentials of eCommerce Payments” Tuesday November 2nd, 10:30AM- 11:30AM PST Next week – “ACH Essentials” Tuesday November 9th, 10:30AM- 11:30AM PST In 2 weeks – “The Job of the eCommerce Payments Manager” Tuesday, November 16th, 10:30AM- 11:30AM PST In 3 weeks – “The PayPal X Platform” Tuesday, November 23rd, 10:30AM- 11:30AM PST Questions? .

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Mobey Forum has announced that it has reached the impressive milestone of its members now collectively representing more than 450 million banking customers globally. “The association attributes increasing membership enquiries to the market’s growing desire to deliver mobile financial services to end-users.”

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At its PayPal X Innovate 2010 developer conference today, PayPal unveiled “new technologies and partnerships that will allow people to change the way they pay – accessing their digital wallets from more devices to shop, browse and pay anytime, anywhere.” PayPal Announcements: PayPal Showcases the Future of Money at Its Innovate 2010 Conference PayPal and Developers Push Mobile into Mainstream PayPal Unveils New Payment Solution for Digital Goods PayPal Teaming Up with USAA Bank for P2P Payments Partner Announcements: Discover to Leverage PayPal’s New Adaptive Payments APIs to Enable Cardmembers to Make P2P Payments PlaySpan Integrates PayPal X Into its…

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Mitek has announced a new app that lets users pay bills with their smartphone camera. After establishing online-bill-payment arrangements as part of their banking account, users of Mobile Photo Bill Pay can initiate e-bill-payment sessions on their smartphones, then simply snap photos of the bills they want to pay, verify the payment information and click on the app’s “PAY” button. The app eliminates the hassle of users setting up information for individual payee accounts because Mitek technology extracts the data from the photo image and automatically provides it to the financial institution’s bill-processing system in the required format.

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