Google Wallet is now available in Argentina, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro, bringing the total number of countries where the digital wallet is available to 66. More
- Google Wallet goes live in five new countries
- NFC Forum to increase transaction range from 2cm “to three or four centimetres”
- Delhi Metro reports on passenger uptake of QR paper tickets
- Seven-Eleven stores in Japan to let consumers access ATM services via face biometrics
- Apple picks iris biometrics for Vision Pro virtual reality headset user authentication
NFC Forum to increase transaction range from 2cm “to three or four centimetres”
It will soon be possible for consumers to make contactless transactions with their NFC smartphone from a distance of 3-4cms, a significant increase on the current standard of 2cm, NFC Forum executive director Mike McCamon has revealed in a presentation for Contactless World Congress... More
Delhi Metro reports on passenger uptake of QR paper tickets
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has sold more than 7.4m QR paper tickets since introducing the new ticketing option on 8 May, the transportation operator has revealed. More
Seven-Eleven stores in Japan to let consumers access ATM services via face biometrics
Seven Bank, a division of Seven-Eleven Japan’s parent company Seven & i Holdings, is to let consumers use face biometrics to deposit and withdraw cash and perform banking services at 20,000 ATMs in Seven-Eleven stores across Japan. More
Apple picks iris biometrics for Vision Pro virtual reality headset user authentication
Apple has integrated a secure enclave into its new Vision Pro virtual reality headset that supports Optic ID, “a new secure authentication system that analyses a user’s iris under various invisible LED light exposures”... More
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Google Wallet GM Jenny Cheng announces support for new types of contactless credentials
Google Wallet is to gain support for a wide variety of new types of contactless credentials, including health insurance cards and employee ID badges, and is also expanding its support for mobile driver’s licenses, state IDs and transit passes, general manager Jenny Cheng has announced... More
Maryland becomes first US state to make mobile IDs available to both Apple and Google wallet users
The Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration has rolled out support for Maryland Mobile ID in Google Wallet following a successful beta test that began in December 2022 and the launch of Mobile ID in Apple Wallet in May 2022. More
Coors Field combines age verification with biometric payments for baseball fans buying alcoholic beverages
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball (MLB) team, has become the first sports venue to use a new version of Amazon’s palm biometric payments solution that removes the need for bar staff to manually check whether a customer purchasing alcohol is over 21... More
Convenience store in Finland offers automated contactless shopping using RFID tags
Residents of a small village in rural Finland now have access to an unstaffed automated contactless convenience store that uses RAIN RFID tags attached to each item to let shoppers quickly and easily self-checkout using a POS solution equipped with an RFID reader that automatically scans all the items in their basket. ... More
Sixteen banks, payments and technology firms to pilot digital Hong Kong dollar
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has officially launched six first-round pilots of a digital Hong Kong dollar or e-HKD with support from 16 banks, payments and technology firms to test the prototype central bank digital currency (CBDC) across a range of use cases including in-store, online and offline payments. More
Swiss football club launches NFC scarves that let fans into the stadium on match day
Fans of Swiss football club FC St Gallen can now use a team scarf incorporating an NFC tag instead of a physical or digital season ticket to gain access to the stadium and receive benefits and notifications... More
Bengaluru to introduce QR code-based auto-rickshaw complaints service
Passengers wishing to file a complaint against an auto-rickshaw driver in the Indian city of Bengaluru will soon be able to do so by simply scanning a QR code behind the driver’s seat with their smartphone. More
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NatWest to let UK merchants accept contactless payments on Android smartphones
NatWest bank is launching a software-only point-of-sale (softPOS) solution that will enable merchants in the UK to accept in-person contactless payments on Android NFC smartphones. More
Car Connectivity Consortium vice president Daniel Knobloch reports on the future of digital car keys
Vehicle manufacturers across the world are now working to bring contactless car keys that work seamlessly on both Apple and Android devices to all makes and models of both privately-owned and commercial vehicles, Car Connectivity Consortium vice president Daniel Knobloch has told NFCW editor Sarah Clark. More
Arizona Motor Vehicle Division lets residents check in for services with their mobile driving licence
Residents of the US state of Arizona can now use a digital driving licence stored on their smartphone to verify their identity when checking in to use services at the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division (AZMVD) office in the city of Scottsdale... More
Macau to let citizens verify identity at border crossings with QR code digital ID on their smartphone
Citizens of Macau will soon be able to verify their identity at border crossings with a digital credential by scanning a QR code stored on their smartphone rather than using their physical ID card... More
Apple digital driving licences and IDs go live in Georgia
Apple users in the US state of Georgia can now create and store digital versions of their driving licence or state ID documents in Wallet on their iPhone or Apple Watch and use them to verify their identity by tapping their device at selected Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoints... More
Kuwait International Bank launches contactless biometric payment cards
Customers of Kuwait International Bank (KIB) can now apply for a biometric payment card that allows them to authenticate contactless payments at the point of sale with their fingerprints... More
NFCW introduces Contactless World Congress Studio Days
NFCW readers can now quickly and easily share their knowledge with the world by joining us at a virtual Contactless World Congress Studio Day to record a conference presentation that we’ll then upload to the NFCW Knowledge Centre for any of our 13,000+ members to access. More
Beijing Subway lets passengers use their palm as a ticket
Passengers travelling on the Beijing Daxing Airport Express subway service in the Chinese capital can now pass through ticketing gates by scanning their palm... More
