Mobile payments are predicted to have a bright future as m-commerce becomes more popular. With financial services representing over a quarter of the FTSE 100, there is no denying the sheer size of this opportunity. Furthermore, with finances playing an ever-increasing role in many forms of mobile content consumption, including mobile ticketing, mobile vouchers and loyalty cards, content purchase and payment methods, LBS, and auctions, there has never been a better time to apply your technology. In addition, mobile contactless payments offer speed and convenience, and are predicted to make up 10% of the contactless market by 2010. However, this promising application has not been as successful as anticipated. This can be partially explained by the infancy of the market and a lack of standards. Moreover, technological and business issues create a market uncertainty that mobile network operators and financial institutions have difficulties managing.

In tough economic times new technology has an important role to play in improving efficiencies and helping improve the bottom line. Utilising on-the-ground research and first-hand interviews with m-payments executives and experts, Visiongain’s mobile payments conference will examine competing service models, profile leading m-payment companies, and dissect the complex set of factors at play in the sector's development. It will also bring together banks, systems vendors, consultancies, systems integrators and security assessors to highlight the range of solutions that are available to meet the current retailer demand for innovative solutions.

Key themes

• Analysing the factors shaping m-payment growth in the United Kingdom
• Examining the role of the operator portal in driving revenues from NFC-enabled services
• Analysing the success of RBS’s London Contactless Roll-Out Programme
• Panel Discussion: How banks and mobile operators can co-operate to make mobile payments happen?
• Transforming customer interaction: mobile banking delivers adoption as wheels of the market align
• Analysing Paymo’s payment architecture
• PayForIt in the m-payments landscape
• Developing and delivering the next generation of mobile banking technology
• Panel Discussion: Is the virtual wallet a threat to anti-money laundering?
• Understanding the complexity of the mobile money transfer revolution
• Mobile Money 2009

Who should attend?
• Managing Directors/ CEOs/ CFOs/ CIOs
• IT Directors
• Head of Research & Development
• Strategic Planning Directors
• VAS Directors
• Content & Application Directors
• Internet Business Directors
• Alternate Distribution Channels Directors
• Marketing Directors
• Billing Directors
• Finance Directors
• Business Development Directors
• Sales Directors
• Mobile Payments Consultants and Practitioners

Key Speakers • Terrie Smith, Vice President- Mobile Centre of Excellence, MasterCard Worldwide • Mary Carol Harris, Head of Mobile, Visa Europe • Roy Vella, Director of Mobile, Royal Bank of Scotland • Richard Johnson, Chief Strategy Officer, Monitise • Paul McGuire, Managing Director, Paymo • Guillaume Peersman, Managing Director, Dialogue Communications • Jayastu Bhattacharya, Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development, Mobile Money Ventures •Lazarus Muchenje, CEO, Celpay International BV •Svein Therkelsen, CEO, mBricks •Paul Johnson, Managing Director, MPP Global Solutions •Howard-Furr Burton, Managing Director, Brand attenntion