Payments

Cred-Ex introduced a new service that lets existing customers make mobile payments for goods at brick and mortar stores.

Contactless mobile payments mean a faster checkout resulting in more revenue from increased throughput and the loyalty of customers who prefer contactless to make purchases.

Mercedes-Benz Financial has expanded its personalized and convenient account management features to all of its customers using smartphones like iPhone, BlackBerry and other mobile devices with Internet capabilities.

Mobile Commerce Daily writers polled their Facebook friends to see whether consumers are interested in buying goods and services via their mobile phones.

IAC/Mindspark’s Zwinky, an online avatar site that integrates with social networks, and online games publisher Aeria Games have tapped Zong to enable mobile payments.

Mocapay, a mobile payments platform, has introduced a service that enables secure, hardware infrastructure agnostic, mobile payments regardless of tender type and transaction location.

Money-transfer giant the Western Union Co. is extending the reach and accessibility of its money transfer services with mobile finance initiatives in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Philippine wireless carrier Globe Telecom is partnering with mobile payments specialist Boku to expand acceptance of the Globe GCash service internationally.

Mopay Inc., a provider of mobile payment services, has expanded into the United States, helping North American gaming and social networking providers to open a new revenue channel.

The Oakland A’s have become the first Major League Baseball club to implement the full functionality of Tickets.com’s ProVenueMobile to enable mobile commerce.