Workgroups and Task Forces

The participants of Mobey Forum work collectively to create best practice guidelines, educational materials and white papers that provide senior decision makers with the insight required to make informed decisions regarding mobile financial services.

Many of these documents are free to download from the resources centre and include:

• Clear industry guidelines for implementations
• Security assessment and review for mobile financial services
• Comprehensive documentation on the recommended architectures for a wide range of financial services.

Mobey Forum Workgroups

Mobey Forum Workgroups operate on a continuous basis to achieve the long-term goals and objectives set by the Mobey Forum Board of Directors. Each initiative researches, explores and develops relevant industry guidelines as well as facilitates the exchange of expertise, insight and technology. Full Members of Mobey Forum can participate in its workgroups. The following groups are currently active:

Business Workgroup, Chair: Jordi Guaus, laCaixa

Mobey Forum launched the Business Workgroup in 2009, to create a common understanding of business opportunities, trends and challenges within the mobile financial services landscape. 

The group works together with the European Payments Council (EPC) to research the existing mobile financial services ecosystem and analyse potential business models to facilitate mobile contactless payments.

The workgroup's recently launched white paper on Business Models for NFC Payments is available for free download.

Marketing Workgroup, Chair: Gerhard Romen, Nokia

The Marketing Workgroup is one of Mobey Forum’s longest established active groups. The overall aim of this body is to increase the visibility of Mobey Forum across relevant sectors.

The group defines targets and goals for Mobey Forum’s marketing activity based on the organisation’s vision, mission and strategy.

Its main objectives for 2011 include a revised member engagement programme, the development of a Mobey Forum social media strategy, the creation of a new website and raising Mobey Forum’s profile within the media.

Mobey Forum Task Forces

Mobey Forum has the capability to create task forces, when the Board of Directors identifies a requirement within the financial services landscape. The task force will dedicate resources to educate the market and link cross industry parties together to enable them to solve the remaining barriers to create a successful mobile financial services ecosystem.

Task forces are available to all membership levels of Mobey Forum to join and provide a platform for strategic discussion and collaboration on a particular area of interest. Members will be informed when there is an opportunity available to join a particular task force. These groups are then dissolved once the assigned aim has been achieved. Current active Mobey Forum Task Forces include:

Security Task Force, Chair: Mario Maawad, laCaixa

Mobey Forum launched the Security Task Force in 2010, to enable cross-industries to come together to discuss and share information associated with security concerns and solutions in relation to mobile financial services.

Mobile Wallet Task Force, Chair: Amir Tabakovic, PostFinance

The Mobile Wallet Task Force is working on a series of papers on Mobile Wallet. The first of these, on defining the mobile wallet, was launched in November 2011.