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Mobile payments: A wealth of wallets

http://www.economist.com/node/21554744 TURN LEFT OFF the main reception to PayPal’s offices in San Jose, open a nondescript door and you step into a garish living room dominated by a flat-screen television.

The Future of Mobile Payments [INFOGRAPHIC]

We know that mobile payments are redefining commerce , but will our phones soon replace our wallets? PayPal seems to think so . http://mashable.com/2011/07/08/the-future-of-mobile-payments-infographic/
Eyeing a shift in consumer habits, eBay has announced it is buying Zong , a provider of payments through mobile carriers, for $240 milllion.

eBay Acquires Mobile Payments Provider Zong for $240M

http://mashable.com/2011/07/07/ebay-buys-zong/

How An E-Invoicing Company Could Disrupt The Banking Industry

Tradeshift is using real-time data to change the way rates get set for small business loans. A Danish startup has created a fairly straightforward web-based application that lets organizations invoice each other online. http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1837782/
Dropis is developing a payment platform to help collaborative consumption startups maximize the success of peer to peer transactions through a social and trust based credit score system. http://angel.co/dropis#overview

Dropis - AngelList

Nicolas Guillaume: Nouveaux services de paiement : un paysage concurrentiel en construction

http://nicolasguillaume.typepad.fr/nicolas_guillaume/2011/10/nouveaux-services-de-paiement-un-paysage-concurrentiel-en-construction.html Cet article a été rédigé en collaboration avec SIA Conseil et est publié conjointement sur leur (excellent) blog Finance & Stratégies ( le lien est ici ).

Will outsourcing bank lending harm SMEs?

http://www.businesszone.co.uk/blogs/marketinvoice/marketinvoice-blog/will-outsourcing-bank-lending-harm-smes Many large European banks are considering the possibility of outsourcing their core small business lending to a new group of loan funds.

BPCE : le paiement sans contact tourne à l'acharnement thérapeutique

Que se passe-t-il quand l'innovation se focalise sur les technologies en oubliant les utilisateurs ? http://cestpasmonidee.blogspot.com/2011/06/bpce-le-paiement-sans-contact-tourne.html

Google-Backed Corduro Promises Even Lower Mobile Payment Fees Than Square

Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/corduro-mobile-payment/

Les nouveaux enjeux stratégiques de Paypal | FrenchWeb.fr

Fin avril, eBay , le propriétaire du système de paiement Paypal annonçait pour le premier trimestre 2011 une hausse de 15.9% de son CA sur la période grâce notamment aux très bons résultats de Paypal (+ 23%). Créé en 2000 puis racheté en 2002 par eBay pour 1.5 milliard $, http://frenchweb.fr/les-nouveaux-enjeux-strategiques-de-paypal/

Rentabiliweb se lancera prochainement dans l’activité bancaire | FrenchWeb.fr

Rentabiliweb , créé en 2002 et spécialiste de la monétisation d’audience, devrait lancer son activité bancaire en janvier 2012. Cette nouvelle offre s’inscrit comme la suite logique de la démarche stratégique largement amorcée par le groupe de Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier. Rentabiliweb a en effet massivement investi sur la monétique au premier semestre 2011.
Paypal signe sa deuxième acquisition en moins de deux semaines. Sur son blog officiel , la filiale d'eBay annonce avoir racheté Fig Card, une start-up spécialisée dans les paiements mobiles.

Paypal investit sur le paiement mobile sur point de vente - le paiement mobile

Square’s Disruptive Payment Service About To Get A Huge Retail Boost From Apple

Mobile payments company Square has landed a big coup— sales placement on Apple’s online store. And we’ve just confirmed with Square that the startup has a deal for in-store sales as well. Apple will start selling Square devices in all of its U.S. retail stores starting this week.

Gemalto bringing NFC payments to phones of any intelligence with MasterCard PayPass SIM -- Engadget

CARTES in Asia, Hong Kong , Mar 29, 2011 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces the world's first UICC-embedded software application compliant with Mobile MasterCard® PayPass™ M/Chip 4, the brand new MasterCard payment specification designed for mobile near field communications (NFC). The software application and the UICC have both successfully achieved the compliance assessment and security testing certification in accordance with MasterCard's highest chip security requirements. This major breakthrough paves the way for mass commercial rollouts of NFC payment across the world.