Contactless

26 May 15 @ 14:22

Apple Pay is becoming more and more frequently used each month, a bi-monthly study has revealed. In May, nearly half (46%) of iPhone 6 owners have successfully used Apple Pay.... read more

26 May 15 @ 14:00

Germany’s Postbank is to run an internal pilot of an NFC mobile payments app operating in a Host Card Emulation environment. Postbank employees participating in the project will be able... read more

22 May 15 @ 16:50

Mint Payments has announced that its partnership with Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has resulted in the successful deployment and enhancement of BNZ’s PayClip mPOS payments product. PayClip enables business... read more

21 May 15 @ 15:10

Figures published today show that the total number of cash payments made by consumers, businesses and financial organisations in the UK fell to 48% last year (from 52% in 2013).... read more

19 May 15 @ 13:53

mPOS specialist iZettle has launched a new hardware dongle that includes both chip and PIN and contactless payment functionality, along with support for Apple Pay. The Card Reader Pro Contactless... read more

18 May 15 @ 15:13

Oberthur Technologies (OT) has announced its partnership with Samsung for the deployment of Samsung Pay in Europe later this year. The Samsung Pay service will allow Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge... read more

18 May 15 @ 14:59

Samsung Wallet will no longer be available for users beginning on June 30, 2015, according to an email sent to users as the handset giant preps Samsung Pay. Back in... read more

18 May 15 @ 13:02

In a new report, Aite Group details how the installation of NFC-capable payment terminals, prevalence of NFC-capable smartphones, and emergence of tokenization and biometrics have created a great deal of... read more

14 May 15 @ 16:41

Apple CEO Tim Cook has strengthened speculation about the next destination for its mobile payment service Apple Pay with comments to Xinhua on a visit to China. “We very much... read more

11 May 15 @ 12:32

The mobile payment service Orange Cash is to be rolled out in Spain. As part of the strategic alliance with the mobile operator Orange, Wirecard will provide the E-Money and... read more

08 May 15 @ 10:31

Eurosmart has released the 2014 figures for the worldwide secure elements shipments and the smart secure contactless markets as well as the corresponding 2015 forecast. The data provided by Eurosmart... read more

08 May 15 @ 09:25

HPS announced a new global partnership with Gemalto for tokenization. Tokenization is the process by which payment account information is replaced by an alternate value called a token. Issuers, Merchants... read more