Volume: 6 Issue: 4
(April 2012)
Keywords:
mobile
growth
digital
age
m-commerce
m-banking
mobile
internet
changing
way
shop
ultimately
retailers
financial
service
providers
business
opportunity
forge
Mobile internet is changing the way we shop and ultimately how retailers and financial service providers do business. The opportunity to forge ahead as the mobile commerce, mobile payments and mobile banking arena takes off is here. Thomas F. Dapp, an e- and m-payment systems analyst at Deutsche Bank Research, discusses the recent trends and increasing uptake of mobile internet services and the risks and benefits involved in offering mobile services both for retailers and financial services providers who want to get ahead in this rapidly evolving digital market.
Q&A: Marc Brûlé discusses the Canadian Royal Mint's MintChip project
Q&A: FinCEN and virtual currencies: the coming of clarity and ambiguity Q&A: Tony Anderson, Partner at Pinsent Masons, on the new regulator for the UK payments systems sector Q&A: O2's move into mobile commerce Q&A: Sarah Carter, General Manager, Social Business, at Actiance, about banks on social media Interview with Joseph I. Rosenbaum, Partner at Reed Smith LLP, on mobile payments & financial institutions