Mobile Payments

What Merchants Need to Know About the Mobile Payments Services Ecosystem: Patent Infringement Disputes

by Erica Wilson | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/21/2013

At LSI’s Merchant Strategies for Mobile Payments Conference in Seattle on May 14, DWT’s Erica Wilson presented on the topic of “What Merchants Need to Know About How the Key Players in the Mobile Payments Services Ecosystem...more

CPA issues Amendments to Electronic Data and Document Rules and Standards

by Lisa K. Abe-Oldenburg | Bennett Jones LLP on 4/24/2013

The Canadian Payments Association has issued amendments to Automated Clearing and Settlement System (ACSS) Rules and Standards, which came into effect on April 22, 2013....more

FTC Recommends Stronger Safeguards for Mobile Payments

by Karen H Bromberg | Cohen & Gresser LLP on 4/18/2013

With the use of mobile payments by consumers reaching “fever pitch”, the FTC has released a new report entitled, “Paper, Plastic… or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on Mobile Payments,” discussing how companies can develop mobile...more

Mobile Payments Infographic

by James G. Gatto, Deborah Thoren-Peden | Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment &... on 4/17/2013

Check out this Mobile Payments Infographic brought to you by the Mobile Payments Working Group, as part of the Application Developers Alliance. Pillsbury team members Jim Gatto, Deb Thoren-Peden and JiJi Park are all members...more

California Considers Revisions To Its Money Transmission Act

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/4/2013

On March 11, the California State Assembly Standing Committee on Banking and Finance held a hearing entitled “Emerging Technology and the California Money Transmission Act.” The hearing’s purpose was to discuss the MTA’s...more

Mobile Payments Start-Ups: The need to know landscape

by Erin Fonté | Cox Smith on 4/3/2013

Originally published in E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy - February 2013. New payments companies need to be aware of the legal and compliance issues that are part of operating in two of the most heavily regulated US...more

FTC Recommends Consumer Protections for Mobile Payment Industry

by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 4/1/2013

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a staff report on mobile payments, which identifies and makes recommendations for three key issues in the mobile payment industry that the FTC believes present consumer...more

Infobytes - A Weekly In-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry - March 29, 2013

by BuckleySandler LLP on 3/29/2013

In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - MISCELLANY - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - SECURITIES - CREDIT CARDS - PAYMENTS -...more

Advertising Law - March 28, 2013

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/29/2013

In This Issue: Marc Roth and Lindsay Conner to Serve as Faculty for PLI Information Technology Law Institute 2013; Data Security, Emerging Tech to Be Focus for FTC; Mobile Payment Services Subject of New FTC Report;...more

FTC Report on Mobile Payments

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 3/27/2013

The Federal Trade Commission issued a report and recommendations for mobile payments called Paper, Plastic... or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on Mobile Payments, which is based on a workshop held by the Commission in 2012 to...more

FTC Points to Key Issues in New World of Mobile Payments

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/25/2013

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report outlining key issues facing consumers and companies as they adopt mobile payment services, entitled “Paper, Plastic . . . or Mobile? An FTC Workshop on...more

Mortgage Banking Update - March 21, 2013

by Richard J. Andreano, Jr., Stefanie Jackman, Bruce Johnson, Anthony Kaye, Barbara S. Mishkin, Allison Mollenhauer, Amy Mushahwar, Burt M. Rublin, Trevor Salter, Matthew Saunig, more +John D. Socknat, Mercedes Kelley Tunstall, Abran Vigil, Michael S. Waldron, Shane Jasmine Young | Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/21/2013

In This Issue: - Uniform State Test Implementation Nearing - Mortgage Servicer's Alleged Failure To Be Licensed Subjects Company to Claims under State and Federal Debt Collection Statutes - Sixth Circuit...more

The Rise of Mobile Payments – Impact on M&A Activity in 2013

by Lucy Overbury | MoFo Tech on 3/20/2013

What’s involved? - A recent study by Juniper Research predicted that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and near field communications transactions – short-range wireless...more

FTC Issues Report On Mobile Payment Consumer Protections

by BuckleySandler LLP on 3/20/2013

On March 8, the FTC released a report on mobile payments by consumers. The report, based on a FTC workshop held in April 2012, focuses on financial, security, and privacy consumer protections. The FTC encourages companies to...more

Advertising News & Analysis - March 14, 2013

by Ellen Traupman Berge, Thomas Gilbertsen, Maggie Grace, Gary D. Hailey, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Amy Ralph Mudge, Jonathan L. Pompan | Venable LLP on 3/18/2013

In this issue: - FTC’s .com Disclosures: New Media Still Subject to Old Rules - Paper, Plastic...or Mobile? FTC Issues Report on Mobile Payments - Why So Negative on Negative Option? - Cy Pres...more

FTC Issues Report on Mobile Payments

by Alan S. Kaplinsky, Amy Mushahwar, Trevor Salter, Mercedes Kelley Tunstall | Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/18/2013

The Staff Report on mobile payments recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) focuses on areas of concern discussed at the FTC’s April 2012 workshop. The report does not break much new ground, but it does...more

Infobytes - A Weekly In-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry - March 15, 2013

by BuckleySandler LLP on 3/16/2013

In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - MISCELLANY - FIRM NEWS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - SECURITIES - E-COMMERCE - PRIVACY/DATA SECURITY - PAYMENTS - Excerpt...more

FTC Releases Report on Improving Consumer Protections in Mobile Payments; Recommends Financial, Privacy and Data Security...

by D. Reed Freeman, Jr., Matthew W. Janiga, Obrea O. Poindexter | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/14/2013

On March 8, 2013 the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released a Report on mobile payments that serves to follow up on the FTC’s April 2012 workshop on mobile payments, as well as to lay the groundwork for the application of...more

FTC Releases Report on Mobile Payments; Guidance on Addressing Issues in Mobile Carrier Billing, Privacy and Data Security

by Brian J. Hurh | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/14/2013

Earlier this month, the FTC released a Report highlighting some of the key issues in the mobile payments space, with particular focus on mobile carrier billing, privacy and data security, and international payments. The...more

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