LAS VEGAS – A mobile payment processing panel at CTIA debated whether carriers, credit card issuers, banks and aggregators can play nice and figure out a way to work together.

Mobile payments let retailers close the loop on their marketing initiatives and drive revenue via the mobile Web and applications. But what options are out there?

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.

Zong, a mobile payment service provider, predicts 2010 will be a growth year for its sector.

Zong has launched Zong+, an online mobile payments platform combining carrier billing with credit, debit and prepaid cards.

IMVU Inc., an avatar-based social network and virtual world where people meet and interact in 3D, is letting its members pay for virtual goods using their handsets.

Online gaming network Mochi Media integrated Zong’s mobile payments platform into its recently launched Mochi Coins microtransaction and distribution platform for Flash Games.