| Advanced Trading
Solutions |
AirTrader software
Released in December, 1999, AirTrader provides mobile users with
the ability to enter and modify equity and option orders, download
account information such as balances, positions, trade history and
order status. It also allows users to obtain real-time quotes and
quote lists. AirTrader runs on any 2.01 or 2.11+ Windows CE device.
A Palm OS version is planned for release in early 2000. The product
also has provisions for real-time price alerts and execution
notifications. AirTrader can work over wireless and wire-line
connections. In addition, a companion application, DeskTrader™, is
available for trading and account update on a conventional desktop
PC - the data can then be replicated to a partner CE device. |
| Aether Systems
Mobeo |
mobeo, inc
acquired by Aether Systems in September 1999, is a provider of
global financial information as well as a leader in wireless
technology development. |
| American Banker
|
Citi
Wireless Test to Go Global (6/00) Citigroup Inc. says its test
of mobile telephones for electronic commerce in Japan is a prelude
to a global rollout of the technology. Once Japanese consumers get
accustomed to shopping through wireless phones, the banking giant
expects to introduce the payments system service in the United
States, which has more mobile phone users than Japan. |
| AOL |
Bloomberg.com AOL
Europe to Announce Wireless-Service Alliance with Deutsche Bank
(2/00) AOL Europe, a joint venture between America Online Inc.
and Bertelsmann AG, to announce an alliance with Deutsche Bank AG
for AOL customers to bank over mobile phones. |
| Celent |
Wireless
Financial Services: A Global Overview (7/00) Number of users
projected to reach 150 million globally by 2004. Little activity,
however, in North America. The past three years have seen an
explosion in the number of wireless communication devices,
especially in Asia and Europe. The emergence of this new mobile
delivery channel presents an opportunity for retail financial
institutions looking to proactively engage their customers with
additional services and products. |
| CNET |
CNET Sony
to form online consumer bank (12/99)
CNET Banks
buy into electronic bill paying (12/99) In the most recent
example of the industry's push to get consumers to pay their bills
online, 11 major U.S. banks said yesterday they will join a banking
consortium called Spectrum.
|
| EuropeanInvestor.com |
Five Per Cent of All Europeans Will Use WAP Phones for
Financial Services by 2004 (5/00) The emergence of mobile
broking will substantially increase the popularity of online
sharedealing with one in 20 Europeans expected to bank via their
mobile phones by 2004, according to a new report. |
| Ezos |
Mobileinfo: EZOS Brings WAP Functionality to a Java-Based Card
terminal (10/00) Manufacturers of electronic appliances wanting to
integrate WAP technology into their particular platform, will be
interested in EZOS’s successful adaptation of its WAP engine to
the C-ZAM/SMASH, a Java-based multi-functional terminal from
Banksys, a provider of end-to-end secure payment systems. |
| III Online Banking
Centre |
Wireless
Banking (12/99)
The
future is 'mobile money' (2/00) |
| Microsoft |
MSN
Mobile 2.0 to Help Transform the Web into a More Personal Collection
of Information and Services (1/00) Welcome to MSN Mobile 2.0,
the newest version of Microsoft’s wireless information service.
Scheduled for general release in the coming months, MSN Mobile 2.0
extends the range of customized wireless information services
already available through MSN Mobile version 1.0 by delivering
real-time, personalized Internet content through Web-enabled cell
phones. Tight integration with MSN will give users access to such
services as MSN Hotmail, MSN MoneyCentral, Expedia, MSNBC, and other
Web-based content, including door-to-door driving directions and MSN
Yellow Pages. |
| Motorola |
Motorola
and 724 Solutions Plan to Bring Financial Services to Mobile Device
Users Worldwide (2/00) Motorola Takes Equity Stake in Innovative
724 Solutions. Motorola and 724 Solutions announce that they have
signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop world-class wireless
financial solutions to help meet the growing demand for high-value,
secure financial transactions. |
| Nokia |
BROKAT and Nokia team up to deliver WAP solutions to the
financial services industry (1/00) Nokia and e-business
specialist BROKAT, have formed a global partnership to deliver WAP
to the financial services industry. As a result of the initiative,
businesses using BROKAT's e-Services platform, Twister, will be able
to offer secure transactional services via WAP-enabled mobile
phones. Services will run over the Nokia WAP Server. |
| RCR News |
WAP boosts m-commerce in India (6/00) A WAP wave is set to
take m-commerce for a ride in India. Sharekhan.com, a leading stock
broking Web site, has become India’s first WAP Forum-certified Web
site, while the HDFC Bank is the first Indian bank to launch its
entire range of services on WAP-enabled phones. |
| Total Telecom |
Six
banks urge EU to regulate Internet banking (6/00) Deutsche Bank,
Fortis, Barclays, Bank Austria, ABN Amro and BBVA have urged the
EU's finance & economy ministers to regulate Internet banking in
the EU.
BT
Cellnet teams up for mobile banking (7/00) Lloyds TSB and BT
Cellnet on Thursday joined the rush into mobile banking, unveiling a
joint venture providing online banking plus other services on mobile
phones from November 2000. |
| Wired |
Taking
Stock of Wireless Trading (6/00) Charles Schwab, the world's
leading discount brokerage firm, has finally joined the wireless
stock trading craze, announcing new services for handheld devices.
Although trading sans tether is still more fad than fact, analysts
say giving traders continuous access to their portfolios could
further excite an increasingly volatile market. |
| ZDNet |
IT
Week: Banks take WAP lead (12/99) Banks will be among the first
firms to roll out services for mobile phones that use the WAP.
First
UK WAP banking service goes live (2/00) The UK's first live
WAP banking service goes live as the Woolwich teamed up with
Vodafone and Nokia to offer 100 of its customers interactive banking
over a WAP enabled mobile phone. The full service goes live in
April.
|
| WealthHound.com |
WealthHound offer stock service for Palm VII (12/99)
WealthHound.com introduces its Wireless Stock Quote Application to
the Palm VII wireless organizer. |
Welcome to our archive of articles and news for WAP Finance, Banking and
Trading. 1999 - 2000.