Mobile Money & NFC
Research Service
ABI Research was early to recognize the market opportunities that can result when the mobile phone becomes the "mobile wallet," and launched its Mobile Money Research Service, which examines a comprehensive range of mobile money services, including mobile banking, person-to-person payments, international remittance, and both NFC and non-NFC-enabled mobile commerce across all value chain participants from operators to banks to application/platform developers. It addresses mobile services technologies such as SMS, mobile Internet, downloadable applications, and SIM, as well as related devices such as card readers, transponders, and NFC-enabled handsets.
This Service also examines the mobile money services value chain that includes retail merchants, operators, banks, money transfer organizations, interoperability hubs, aggregators, bank software vendors, and credit/debit card issuers.
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Mobile Wallet Strategies
Payments, Coupons, Offers, Loyalty and Rewards Programs
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NFC ICs and Devices
Handsets, CE Devices, Secure Elements, Bridging Solutions, Tags, and Other Industries
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NFC Mobile Payments
UICC, Card Emulation, Secure Element, and Contactless Payment Terminals
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Mobile Payments in China
NFC, RF SIM and SIMpass
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Mobile Commerce and Virtual Goods
Mobile Online Shopping, Software-based Proximity Payments
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Mobile Banking, P2P, and Bill Payments
MNO, Bank, and Third Party Solutions
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Mobile Commerce
Mobile Online Shopping and Mobile Payments for Virtual Goods Enter the Mainstream
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Developing a Smartphone Strategy for Mobile Money Services
Key Considerations and Platform Choices
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Mobile Banking: US Banks Report Card
Leaders and Laggards in Mobile Banking
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Wireless Security

ThemeMobile Money Security
Challenges and Solutions
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Mobile Banking Platforms – Which Technology Is Best?
SMS, Mobile Internet, or Downloadable Application
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Walmart Buys Small Society
10 Jan 2012
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Why PayPal Trialing NFC Is Not Significant (Right Now)
30 Dec 2011
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US Cap on Debit Fees Impacts Both Bank Card and NFC Markets
29 Dec 2011
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Testing Google Wallet: Part 3
21 Dec 2011
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Reality Bites as Verizon Blocks Google Wallet
20 Dec 2011
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Testing Google Wallet: Part 2
20 Dec 2011
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Testing Google Wallet: Part 1
12 Dec 2011
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NFC World Market Summary 2010 to 2016
07 Dec 2011
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NFC Tags - Developing New Revenue Streams
30 Nov 2011
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NFC Mobile Payments: Lessons From Japan
28 Nov 2011
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Trend: Storing Payment Data On Mobile Devices Without Secure Element
09 Nov 2011
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PayPal’s Mobile Ambitions for Brick and Mortar Merchants
03 Nov 2011
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Consumer Survey for Contactless Payments
02 Nov 2011
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Broadcom Has Announced Its Next-Gen NFC Chip
11 Oct 2011
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Apple iOS Dominates Mobile Browsing; What's the Impact on Mobile Commerce?
04 Oct 2011
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An MNO as Payment Provider? Rogers Steps Up
27 Sep 2011
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The MNO NFC Quandary
27 Sep 2011
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With Subway, Google Wallet Succeeds Sooner Than You'd Think
19 Sep 2011
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UnionPay Versus China Mobile Operators? Who Wins?
07 Sep 2011
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Google, Motorola, and the Impact for Google Wallet
16 Aug 2011
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NXP Revises its NFC Estimate Down for 2011
05 Aug 2011
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Digital Wallet Wars Begin With Visa, American Express
05 Aug 2011
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Will China Lead in Mobile Payments with AliPay?
02 Aug 2011
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Mobile Phone Security: A Major Hack Waiting to Happen?
21 Jul 2011
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Digital Payments Are Not Yet Able To Meet All Market Needs
18 Jul 2011
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PayPal's Mobile Opportunities and Challenges
12 Jul 2011
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UK MNOs Combine to Launch New Mobile Marketing and Payment JV
28 Jun 2011
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Google Wallet versus Isis
02 Jun 2011
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Defining Mobile Barcode Scanning: Smart Devices Act As Barcodes And Scanners
01 Jun 2011
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NFC Mobile Payments Momentum Slows Again: Perhaps 2013 Is the Year?
19 May 2011
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GCASH Distributing Cash for Aid via Mobile Phones
04 May 2011
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Circumventing the Checkout Line – New Mobile Commerce Use Cases
03 May 2011
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Mobile Shopping Heats Up and Retailers Play Catch Up
02 May 2011
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AT&T Revs Location-Based Ad Targeting with Placecast Deal
02 Mar 2011
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LG to Use NFC to Enhance Its Smartphone Strategy
10 Feb 2011
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NFC / Mobile Payments: ISIS Hints At Direction
03 Feb 2011
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Smart Mobile Device Security Is an Increasing Area of Focus and Necessity
31 Jan 2011
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NFC Forecasts Revised UP for 2011
31 Jan 2011
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Cartes 2010 Highlights - NFC Re-born and the Expanding World of M2M
18 Jan 2011
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Mobile Commerce and Banking: The Most Significant Developments of 2010, Part 2
18 Jan 2011
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Mobile Commerce and Banking: The Most Significant Developments of 2010, Part 1
18 Jan 2011
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Price Check: Are Retailers Ripping Consumers Off at the Checkout with Scanning Errors?
16 Nov 2010
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NFC - The Final Pieces of the Jigsaw
13 Oct 2010
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Bargains: Why Groupon, Yipit, Shop It To Me, and Others Are the Next Big Thing in Mobile Commerce
14 Jul 2010
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Gemalto Acquires Cinterion: Is a Platform Strategy in the Offing?
14 Jul 2010
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All or Some, Nokia’s NFC Smartphone Plans Remain Notable
14 Jul 2010
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The Apple Payment Patents: What Do They Mean for Mobile Commerce, P2P Payments?
15 Jun 2010
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With Moonha, Is SAP Poised To Jump Start Mobile Commerce?
15 Jun 2010
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No Cash, No Problem: Mobile Payments Are on the Horizon
06 May 2010
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The New Scanning Reality in Retail: Mobile Bar Codes and Imaging Technology Will Matter
05 May 2010
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Recent NFC Trial in India Draws Media Scrutiny
03 May 2010
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ZigBee Advances On Mobile Handsets, but Competition Will Be Fierce
21 Apr 2010
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Is God on Target’s Side with Mobile Coupons?
30 Mar 2010
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ABI Research's CTIA 2010 Wrap-Up
26 Mar 2010
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Crowded House: Verizon Enters Mobile Payments Space
24 Mar 2010
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Upsell Opportunity for Carriers: Credit Cards
19 Mar 2010
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Will Wells Fargo’s Move Lead to Mass Market Adoption of Mobile Banking?
17 Feb 2010
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Notes from CES: ABI Research’s Analysts Reflect on Three Days in Las Vegas
26 Jan 2010
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Mobile Money and U.S. Check Cashing Companies – Perfect Marriage for the Underbanked?
10 Nov 2009
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Trend: Mobile Interoperability Vendors Invade the Mobile Money Space
23 Sep 2009
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Reaching the Unbanked with Mobile Banking in Developed Markets, Part 1: International Remittance
15 Sep 2009
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Why Mobile Bill Pay Attracts Players Other Than Banks
11 Aug 2009
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Mobile Trends: The Impact of Mobile Cloud Computing on Mobile Money
14 Jul 2009
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Mobile Devices and Services: Transforming Africa with Employment, Payments, and Education
05 Jun 2009
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CTIA Wireless 2009 Wrap-Up
29 Apr 2009
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Contactless Payment Should Shine in 2009
08 Apr 2009
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East Africa: The Center of the Mobile Money World
13 Mar 2009
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Who Is Running These Networks Anyway? (Managed Services)
05 Dec 2008
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NFC and Flying Cars
07 Oct 2008
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NFC: New Standards Will Foster a Raft of New Handsets, but There Is Still Work to Do
28 Mar 2008
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Key Partnerships and a Look Overseas Will Boost Mobile Payments
22 Jan 2008
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Contactless Payments – Smartcards and Mobile
2011 Global Survey Results
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Mobile Person-to-Person Payments
US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific Survey Results
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Mobile Banking: Consumers Ponder Convenience, Security Issues
2009 US Consumer Mobility Survey Results
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Mobile Banking: Consumers Ponder Convenience, Security Issues
2009 US Consumer Mobility Survey Results
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Mobile Payments and Transactions
Mobile Content Surveys 2007 and 2008 Results
- Active NFC-based Mobile Wallet Users
- Active NFC-based Mobile Wallet Users, Loyalty/Reward
- Active NFC-based Mobile Wallet Users, Offers
- Active NFC-based Mobile Wallet Users % of Mobile Subscribers
- Active NFC-based Mobile Wallet Users by Issuing Entity
- Active NFC Mobile Payment Users, By Region
- Average ASP NFC ICs Across All Applications
- Contactless HF RFID Reader Shipments
- Contactless Mobile Payments Transaction Volume and Value
- E-Commerce Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- E-Commerce Sales, Excluding Travel
- Installed Base NFC As % of Mobile Subscribers, By Region
- Installed Base NFC Mobile Handsets By Region
- Merchant Revenue Generated by Mobile Online Shopping, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Banking, P2P, Bill Payment Subscribers
- Mobile Banking Subscribers
- Mobile Bill Payment Subscribers
- Mobile Commerce Sales By Category
- Mobile Domestic Person-to-Person Payments Subscribers
- Mobile-Enabled International Remittance Revenue
- Mobile Handset Shipments
- Mobile International Remittance Subscribers
- Mobile Online Shopping Annual ARPU, Per Mobile Internet Subscriber, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Online Shopping Revenue as a Percentage of E-Commerce Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Online Shopping Sales
- Mobile Online Shopping Sales as a Percentage of E-Commerce Sales, Excluding Travel
- Mobile Payments for Virtual Goods
- Mobile Payments for Virtual Goods, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Payments for Virtual Goods Annual ARPU, Per Mobile Subscriber, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Payments for Virtual Goods as a Percentage of Virtual Goods Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
- Mobile Subscribers
- Mobile Wallet Offers Redeemed, Annual Value Per Active User
- Mobile Wallet Offers Redeemed, Value
- NFC-based Mobile Wallet Data
- NFC Chipset Shipment Value
- NFC Controller IC ASPs by Consumer Electronics Type
- NFC Enabled Consumer Electronics Shipments by Application
- NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type
- NFC Enabled Handset Shipments by Type
- NFC Event Ticketing-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type
- NFC Handset Bridging Solution Shipments by Type
- NFC Handset IC Shipments by Form Factor
- NFC Handset Shipments By Region
- NFC IC ASPs by Bridging Solution
- NFC IC ASPs by Mobile IC Form Factor
- NFC IC ASPs - Other Industry Applications
- NFC IC Revenues by Bridging Solution
- NFC IC Revenues by Consumer Electronics Type
- NFC IC Revenues by Mobile IC Form Factor
- NFC IC Revenues - Other Industry Applications
- NFC Mobile Payment Data
- NFC Mobile Payments, Value of Goods Sold, By Region
- NFC Payment-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type
- NFC Prepaid/Top-Up-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type
- NFC Shipments - Other Industries Non-mobile
- NFC Tag ASPs (Excluding Payment)
- NFC Tag Revenues (Excluding Payment)
- NFC Tag Unit Shipments (Excluding Payment)
- NFC Transit-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type
- NFC Wireless Handset Shipments by Region
- Number of NFC Chipsets Shipped
- Number of NFC Devices Shipped
- Number of NFC Handsets Shipped, by Type
- Pivot Table
- Sampling of "Shopping" iPhone Apps
- Smartphone Subscriber Penetration, by Mobile OS Forecast by Region: 2009 (%)
- Smartphone Subscriber Penetration, by Mobile OS Forecast by Region: 2014 (%)
- Smartphone Subscriber Penetration, World Market, Forecast by Region: 2008 to 2014 (%)
- Smartphone Subscribers, World Market, Forecast by Region: 2008 to 2014 (Millions)
- Total NFC Enabled Consumer Electronics Shipments
- Total NFC-Enabled Device Shipments by Form Factor
- Total NFC Enabled Devices Shipments
- Total NFC Enabled Handset Shipments
- Total NFC Handset Bridging Solutions
- Total NFC IC Revenues Across All Applications
- Total NFC Mobile and CE IC Shipments
- Total NFC Shipments - Other Industries Non-mobile
- Total NFC Tag Unit Shipments (Excluding Payment)
- Virtual Goods Revenue
- Virtual Goods Revenue, World Market, Forecast: 2008 to 2015
This Service Covers the Following Technology and Market Issues:
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Mobile Money Services
- Mobile Commerce, Person-to-Person Payments, International and Domestic Remittances, Bill Payments, Banking Services
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Mobile Services Technologies
- SMS, Mobile Internet, Downloadable Applications, SIM
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Mobile Money Services Value Chain
- Physical and Online Retail Merchants, Travel Service Providers, Operators, Banks, Money Transfer Organizations, Aggregators, Bank Software Vendors, Credit/Debit Card Issuers
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Devices
- Card Readers, Transponders, NFC-Enabled Handsets
- 1-800-FLOWERS
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Alibaba Group/Taobao
- Amazon
- America First Credit
- ATG
- Baby Phat
- Bancorp South
- Bank of America
- BB&T
- Bharti Airtel Limited
- Capital One Bank
- Carolina First
- Carrier Billing for Physical Goods
- CashEdge
- Chase
- Citibank
- ClairMail
- CVS
- Demandware
- Digby
- Disney
- Eastern Bank
- eBay
- Fifth Third Bank
- Firethorn
- Fiserv, Inc.
- Fundamo Ltd
- Gilt Groupe
- Globe Telecom, Inc.
- Groupon
- Huntington National
- IBC Bank
- IKEA's Augmented Reality
- JCPenney
- M&T Bank
- Major League Baseball
- MasterCard
- mChek
- M-Com
- Mercantile Bank
- mFoundry
- Mi-Pay
- Mobile Money Ventures
- Monitise
- Northeast Bank
- Obopay, Inc.
- PayPal
- PNC
- Provident Bank
- Regions Bank
- Roamware, Inc.
- Sccope
- SK Telecom
- Staples
- SunTrust
- Sybase, Inc.
- Syniverse Technologies, Inc.
- Synovus Bank
- Tecca
- USAA
- Usablenet
- US Bank
- Vodafone
- Wachovia
- Wells Fargo
- Woot




