Contactless

01 Oct 13 @ 11:37

Mobile commerce provider CorFire has announced a collaboration with payments innovators Wirecard to allow near field communications service (NFC) to enable mobile payments across Europe. Under the agreement, Wirecard’s products... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 17:44

Mobile Wallet Initiative Austria has been launched by a group of financial, technology and telecoms companies. The new organisation aims to create an open nationwide standard for NFC mobile wallets.... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 12:08

Visa Europe and Volkswagen Bank are offering a mobile payment platform as of September. 500 clients of Volkswagen Bank will trial mobile payments with their iPhone, in an initial testing... read more

20 Sep 13 @ 10:40

Nets, one of Europe’s leading companies in the area of digital money, digital information and digital identities and Europe’s second-largest card processor has selected Oberthur Technologies for its Trusted Service... read more

18 Sep 13 @ 11:42

Google was one of the earliest big-name companies to move in the developing mobile payments market, but Wallet – its flagship payments solution – had more or less disappeared from... read more

11 Sep 13 @ 12:14

Making purchases with a smartphone is gaining a foothold in Hong Kong, and it has changed the habits of Sunny Cheung Yiu-tong, a die-hard fan of smart cards. Octopus Cards,... read more

05 Sep 13 @ 11:30

Vodafone has announced that all its customers will be able to use Vodafone SmartPass to make mobile payments from a Visa prepaid card account at over 250,000 stores across Spain by... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 15:50

Movistar Chile, a major mobile operator in Latin America and Banco Santander Chile, one of the largest retail and commercial banks in Latin America, have selected Oberthur to be their... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 12:44

MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP announced the coming launch of a white-label near-field communication (NFC) mobile wallet service in Japan that enterprises will use to offer their customers more rewarding experiences... read more

03 Sep 13 @ 12:35

Telefonica Czech Republic is set to launch a trial of mobile point-of-sale devices aimed at small firms and entrepreneurs who previously were unable to accept credit cards. The new device... read more

20 Aug 13 @ 16:32

UK consumers have made 51 million contactless purchases in the last 12 months, according to figures released today from Visa Europe. The monthly contactless spend has also increased five fold... read more

05 Aug 13 @ 11:27

Telcos France Telecom-Orange, SFR, along with Bouygues Telecom, and banks BNP Paribas and Crédit Mutuel-CIC plan to move their NFC projects from a few local deployments to the national stage... read more