Mobile Financial Services

Overview

This report focuses on the activities and strategies of the main players within the mobile finance industry and provides practical market projections up until 2011.  Through one-on-one interviews with mobile operators, banks & credit card companies, infrastructure companies, handset & MFS (mobile financial services) vendors, this strategic report offers a complete examination of the opportunities and threats that face all members of the MFS chain.  The 168 page report analyses the various mobile banking markets as well as providing forecasts for mobile banking, mobile financial information services (messaging), mobile funds transfer, mobile bill presentment & payment (MBPP), and mobile account management & customer service.  Furthermore this extensive research report also looks at the applications and services for mobile payments, both remote and physical, and provides practical forecast data on total mPayments usage and revenues up until 2011.

Key Questions the report answers:
• What is the current and future market size for MFS?
• What is the strategy for financial institutions, mobile network operators, credit card networks and new entrants?
• What are the main market drivers for MFS?
• What technologies are being adopted for MFS?
• Are customers ready for the "ATM in their pocket"?
• How the developing world, the great "underbanked", is embracing MFS?
• What is NFC? Is it a key technology for enabling MFS and when will it gain traction?
• Has the previously strained relationship between financial institution and mobile network operator improved?
• Who will be the winners and losers in the MFS market?
• Are security concerns holding back MFS?