ClairMail, a significant player in the mobile banking space raised a late round of funding to the tune of $13.8M. The mobile banking and payment solutions firm was backed by existing investors JAFCO Ventures, Northwest Venture Partners and Outlook Ventures, and was fronted by Investor Growth Capital. The firm aims to inject this money into strengthening its mobile infrastructure and for Research + Development.

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MobilePay, emerged out of its stealth mode at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco with an innovative app for mobile payments. The free app, soon to be available to iPhone users in USA, is aiming to replace your wallet filled with credit cards, debit cards et al. Users can pre-load their card information and pay by just a few clicks on the app. What’s interesting is that potential merchants do not need any software or hardware implementation to partner with MobilePay.

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Demandware, an ecommerce provider in conjunction with AT&T’s sterling commerce conducted a retail study to find that more consumers are increasingly using mobile devices to shop. The key finding from their survey, which aimed to measure consumer attitude towards mobile shopping, indicates that 15% of the consumers have used their mobile devices to make purchases. On the flipside, consumers concern over mobile shopping security risks are quite high, coupled with ease of use concern may impede the growth of mobile shopping and payments.

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Starbucks card mobile app was rolled out today across USA and mobile payments would be accepted at their outlets in Target stores (which amounts to more than 1000 stores pan US). Besides making payments using the mobile phone, the application available for iPhone and iPod Touch permits the user to setup a Starbucks card, view transaction, check balance and reload the Starbucks card using a credit card.

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PayPal has teamed up with Bump Technologies, and have launched a revamped iPhone app that lets you transfer money by just bumping two phones together. Here’s a situation – how quickly could you divvy up a food bill at a restaurant and sort out accounts instantly? The new app lets you calculate everyone’s share by splitting the check, even factoring in tax and tip. Then you just bump your phones together or choose a recipient from your mobile contacts and transfer money, instantly. All transactions between friends sorted, no sweat!

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