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• Contactless Payments News
  • Last week, a researcher presented Attacks on NFC Mobile Phones at a security conference in London. (See more Contactless and Near Field Communication news.)
  • MasterCard Canada announced a trial of NFC-enabled phones for mobile payments. (See more Canada, Contactless, MasterCard and Near Field Communication news.)
• Credit Card News
  • Citi introduced a new credit card rewards program called Extra Cash. (See more Citi Card Services, Card Issuers and Credit Card news.)
• First Data Corp. News
  • First Data Corp. and Frontier Airlines announced a new agreement on card processing. (See more First Data Corp. news).
• Interchange Fee News
  • Fuel retailers continued to complain about the impact of payment card interchange fees on their business. (See more Interchange Fee news).
  • Aneace Haddad blogged his recommendations as to what credit card issuers might be thinking about in anticipation of a decline in card interchange fees. (See more Interchange Fee news).
• MasterCard News
  • MasterCard held an investment community meeting on Thursday. (See more MasterCard news.)
• Mobile Banking News
  • Javelin Strategy & Research announced a new report titled "2008 US Mobile Banking Benchmark Study: Mobile Access, Features, and Security – What Banks Are Offering Now". (See more Mobile Banking news).
• Mobile Payments News
  
  • The Miami Parking Authority has announced it now offers "the Verrus Pay by Phone service" throughout the city. (See more Mobile Payments news.)
  • Sramana Mitra interviewed Obopay founder and CEO Carol Realini about her interest in mobile payments. (See more Mobile Payments and Obopay news.)
• PayPal News
  • eBay Australia filed its response to the many submissions received by the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) inquiry about eBay Australia's new PayPal-only policy. (See more Australia, eCommerce Payments and PayPal news.)
• UK News
  • The new Faster Payments Service went live in the UK on Tuesday. (See more Faster Payments Service and UK news.)
• Visa
  • Visa announced an expansion of its fraud recovery process to include Plus and Interlink ATM network transactions. (See more Visa news.)
• Open Job Listings on PaymentsJobs.com
  
  • Debit Card Product Manager at BB&T (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  • Electronic Payments Product Manager at BB&T (Wilson, North Carolina)
  • Product Manager - Remittance Solutions at Creditron (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
  • Senior Product Manager - Remittance Solutions at Creditrron (Mississauga, Canada)
  • VP Partnerships (Marketing) at Western Payments Alliance (San Francisco, California)
  • Assistant Vice President of Educational Programs at Western Payments Alliance (San Francisco, California)
  • Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Western Payments Alliance (San Francisco, California)
  • Open Sales Position E-Commerce Company at preCharge.com (New York)
  • Vice President and Program Manager at Skylight Financial (Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Payments Attorney at a stealth start up (San Francisco/Bay Area)
  • Director - Chargebacks & Disputes Policy at American Express (Phoenix, Arizona)
• Upcoming Glenbrook Payments Education Offerings
  
  • Workshop on The Structure of the Merchant Payments Marketplace - San Francisco Bay Area - June 10
  • Glenbrook Payments Boot Camp - San Francisco Bay Area - June 11-12

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Olga Kharif writes for Business Week about the weekend web - and how mobile Internet usage spikes on Saturdays. "Google Mobile reports that the majority of its traffic occurs on weekends." The busiest weekend mobile web site? Craigslist, of course.

Jack Ewing and Eliza Barclay writes for Business Week about the upcoming initial public offering of shares in Kenya's Safaricom - scheduled to begin trading on the Nairobi Stock Exchange on June 9th. Although not mentioned in the article, Safaricom is the home of M-PESA, perhaps the most successful person-to-person mobile payment scheme on the planet. (See more articles about M-PESA in the Payments News Archives.)