Contactless

30 Jun 14 @ 14:53

BBVA is the first global banking group to commercially launch mobile HCE mobile payments based on new cloud-based payment specifications from Visa. The new cloud-based system will allow BBVA customers... read more

30 Jun 14 @ 10:28

Russian Standard Bank, Samsung Electronics and MasterCard have announced the commercial launch of a contactless payment service on some flagship NFC-enabled Samsung devices.  For MasterCard and Samsung, the Russian launch... read more

23 Jun 14 @ 09:55

Following the recent publication of the Consult Hyperion/GSMA discussion paper ‘HCE and SIM Secure Element: It’s Not Black and White’, SIMalliance has highlighted that future growth of the NFC ecosystem... read more

20 Jun 14 @ 10:44

AT&T has announced its selection of CorFire, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA, to provide SP TSM and supporting mobile applications for AT&T’s NFC services to be marketed... read more

13 Jun 14 @ 12:12

BlackBerry announced it has reached a three-year deal with Canadian mobile payment technology firm EnStream to provide a secure platform for mobile-payment transactions between several big Canadian banks and their customers.... read more

12 Jun 14 @ 10:42

Proxama, the global mobile marketing, loyalty and payments company has partnered with PrePay Solutions (PPS), to provide mobile contactless payment solutions, via HCE, to PPS’s customer base. PPS (jointly owned by Edenred... read more

11 Jun 14 @ 10:17

Digital payments experts Consult Hyperion, in conjunction with the GSMA, have published a guide to help banks and mobile operators understand the Host Card Emulation (HCE) and SIM Secure Element... read more

10 Jun 14 @ 09:15

Russian bank Sberbank, Europe’s third largest bank with 100 million customers, has begun piloting NFC payments in Moscow using embedded secure elements. It will follow the trial with a service using host... read more

09 Jun 14 @ 15:35

Barclays has announced plans to tap into demand for wearable devices, with the launch of a trial of its bPay contactless payments wristband. Around 7,000 consumers will be able to... read more

04 Jun 14 @ 13:58

Annual domestic card spending by UK consumers passed £0.5 trillion for the first ever time in 2013 as shoppers increasingly choose cards over cash, according to a report published by... read more

03 Jun 14 @ 14:19

UK transport body Transport for London (TfL) has announced that from 6 July, all of its London buses will be cash-free, with commuters no longer being able to use cash... read more

02 Jun 14 @ 12:57

The roll-out of contactless cards, the growth of e-commerce and rising usage of self-service tills are all contributing to a fall in cash usage in the UK, according to the... read more