Contactless

26 Mar 14 @ 11:42

Starting in H1 2014 Brazilians will be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping. In the first commercial project of its kind in Latin... read more

18 Mar 14 @ 17:40

Google has announced via email that it will kill off NFC payment service functionality in April for anything below Android 4.4 (device that don’t have Kit Kat – Android 4.4+). In other... read more

17 Mar 14 @ 15:54

The UK’s Transport for London say that us passengers have been wrongly charged thousands of pounds because of a contactless glitch in the payment system. Almost 1,800 commuters have been... read more

17 Mar 14 @ 12:44

Google says it has updated its Android and iOS Google Wallet apps to enable shoppers to automatically track their online orders. Once users activate ‘orders’ in Google Wallet they can... read more

14 Mar 14 @ 11:01

Bank-led mobile payment scheme Digicash has launched a pilot-project using the Beacon model in Luxembourg –  the first mobile payments using SEPA Credit Transfers. Digicash Beacon devices at POS combine... read more

13 Mar 14 @ 12:53

The latest figures from Visa Europe show that throughout 2013 Visa cardholders used their contactless cards to make more than 94.3 million purchases in the UK compared to just under... read more

12 Mar 14 @ 15:57

Hang Seng Bank is to join forces with mobile operators including HKT to strengthen the mobile payment ecosystem and offer customers the convenience of NFC to tap and pay for small... read more

04 Mar 14 @ 15:38

Banco Sabadell has announced the launch of its technology pilot, delivering Host Card Emulation (HCE) for NFC mobile payments. This solution simplifies the complexity typically associated with mobile payment deployments, enabling... read more

25 Feb 14 @ 15:10

Asian telecom operators Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), HKT (Hong Kong), KDDI (Japan), and SK Planet (South Korea) are jointly announcing the formation of the Asia NFC Alliance, with the support of... read more

24 Feb 14 @ 12:27

Working with its partners, Visa says it has doubled the availability of mobile payments services across Europe in the past 12 months.  Mobile payments are now available nationwide in several... read more

21 Feb 14 @ 13:49

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing its secure software platform to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), to enable secure contactless payment transactions with the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. In... read more

20 Feb 14 @ 08:50

Having recently launched in France, Orange has launched of Orange Cash in Spain, a rechargeable prepaid card from MasterCard that can be used within smartphones or as a traditional payment card. With Orange... read more