A new report from CNBC suggests that waiters and waitresses like mobile payments due to it prompting more—and more generous—tipping. Sourced through Scoop.it from: paymentweek.com

Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) will start a limited commercial test of its CurrentC-branded mobile payments service in some U.S. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.fiercewireless.com

Azimo customers in 20 European countries are now be able to send funds to mobile money accounts in Armenia, Burkina Faso, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines and Somaliland. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

US retailer-owned mobile payments consortium MCX is to test its CurrentC mobile wallet in stores next month, Bloomberg reports Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.nfcworld.com

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Fujitsu’s Arrows NX F-04G phone it secured by iris scanning – it will not un-lock until it views the correct iris. Osram is supplying the led used as an in Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.electronicsweekly.com

The FIDO standard-compliant implementation could enable broader use of biometric devices for strong authentication. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.eweek.com

Health care organizations across the country are starting to rollout biometric technology to identify patients and reduce identity theft. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.secureidnews.com

Emerging currencies extendedfalls on Thursday, with many in Asia at multi-year lows on theback of U.S. rate hike bets while South Korea’s poor economicdata highlighted the developing world’s growth Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.reuters.com

A lengthy period of low volatility in markets appears to have drawn conclusively to a close. Bond and equity markets have been blown about… Sourced through Scoop.it from: insights.jpmorgan.co.uk