Discover will begin supporting Apple Pay from September 16 and the company will award cash back to cardholders in the US who use their Discover cards through the mobile payments service... More
Archive for September 2015
HID Global white paper provides a guide to NFC use cases that go beyond payments
A 12-page white paper that provides an introduction to NFC technology, its three modes of operation, NFC tags and a variety of use cases beyond the mobile payments arena is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
Office 365 users get NFC access
ID card provider HID Global has integrated its ActivID Tap Authentication solution with Microsoft’s Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) to allow users of Microsoft Office 365 to access corporate cloud applications, data and services by tapping a smartcard against an NFC device... More
Apple continues NFC support in iPhone 6s
Technical specifications for Apple’s new flagship smartphones — the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus — reveal that the devices will support Apple Pay... More
Kik adds QR to messaging app
Mobile messaging app Kik has introduced Kik Codes, QR codes which can be assigned to users and scanned to start a conversation or used by brands to send out offers... More
Put your questions to HCE pioneer Doug Yeager tomorrow
Close to 300 people have registered to attend tomorrow’s NFC World webinar with host card emulation (HCE) pioneer and SimplyTapp CEO Doug Yeager... More
Marriott Hotels to accept Alipay
Visitors to hotel chain Marriott International will soon be able to pay for their hotel stays, food and drink purchases as well as for meeting and event bookings using Ant Financial’s Alipay QR-code mobile payment platform... More
Vodafone Turkey expands NFC mobile wallet
Vodafone Turkey has partnered with Visa Europe to let its users link a Visa card to its Vodafone Cep Cüzdan NFC mobile wallet... More
18% of US Visa cards contain EMV chip
Almost one fifth (18%) of the 720m Visa-branded credit, debit and prepaid cards in the US included an EMV chip and some 295,000 merchant locations were enabled for chip card acceptance as of July 2015, up 19% from 247,000 at the end of June 2015, Visa has told NFC World... More
Samsung Pay averages 25,000 new users daily
Samsung Pay is averaging 25,000 new users and more than US$620,000 in transactions per day since its launch in Korea last month... More
Suretap reports 180,000 NFC wallet users
Some 180,000 Canadians have now installed the Suretap NFC mobile wallet and the average value per transaction has increased 22% month over month since its launch in June 2015, the company has revealed... More
Google and Samsung sign up to MasterCard Digital Enablement Express
Google and Samsung are among the first digital partners to join MasterCard’s newly launched Digital Enablement Express program which aims to speed up the process of digitizing and tokenizing MasterCard accounts through the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) that was launched in September 2014... More
White paper highlights actions European card issuers can take to succeed with mobile payments
A 14-page white paper highlighting the key actions European card issuers can take to gain a competitive advantage from the arrival of tokenized NFC payments is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
European contactless payments up 170%
Contactless transactions grew by almost 170% year-on-year in Q2 2015 across Europe and consumers already using contactless tapped 20% more often, research from MasterCard reveals... More
Woori Bank adds Samsung Pay to ATMs
South Korea’s Woori Bank has begun accepting Samsung Pay... More
High value contactless payments available across Europe in 2017
Consumers will be able to make contactless transactions for high value payments above the current limit at all contactless terminals across Europe by 2017, MasterCard has announced... More
ING acquires Qustomer mobile loyalty platform
Financial institution ING has acquired Belgian digital loyalty platform Qustomer for an undisclosed sum... More
MasterCard sees “strong uptake” of Apple Pay
“We are seeing strong uptake; these technologies will take time to grow but we’re seeing adoption track really well,” MasterCard’s chief emerging payments officer Ed McLaughlin said of Apple Pay during an interview with Fortune... More
200m NFC mobile wallets in 2016
The number of NFC mobile wallets is expected to reach 200m by the end of 2016, up more than 100% from the end of 2014, research from Juniper Research reveals... More
UK black cabs to get Bluetooth beacons
Commuters in taxi cabs across the UK cities of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham will soon receive context-relevant messages as they travel... More