Scottish knitwear brand Lyle & Scott has begun selling a contactless jacket that comes equipped with Barclaycard bPay technology to enable the wearer to make payments with a tap of the cuff at any contactless terminal... More
Archive for September 2015
Android Pay will launch ‘very soon’
Android Pay will launch “very, very soon,” Google’s head of commerce partnerships Jack Connors told Mobile Payments Conference in Chicago this week... More
RBC gets Secure Cloud payments patent
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been awarded a patent for its Secure Cloud mobile payments platform by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering the use of secure tokens by the bank’s clients to facilitate payments from mobile devices... More
Google ‘shut down’ beacon project
A Google service called Google Here that would send notifications via Google Maps and beacons in participating stores was shut by CEO Larry Page this year... More
Singapore commuters trial wristband payments
Commuters in Singapore are testing a contactless wristband to pay for public transport services and for goods at retailers equipped with contactless readers... More
PayPal launches PayPal.Me
PayPal has launched a P2P payment service in 18 countries that lets consumers request money by sharing a personal PayPal.Me link... More
India biometrics market to grow 35% by 2020
India’s biometrics market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 35% from 2015 through 2020, according to TechSci Research... More
Ingenico joins WorldPay bidding war
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico has submitted a bid for UK-based payment processor WorldPay... More
Sony unveils Wena Wrist with NFC payments
Sony is crowdfunding a new smartwatch called Wena Wrist that is equipped with NFC payments compatible with the Japanese Felica standard... More
Uber ‘to launch mobile wallet in India’
Taxi service Uber is to introduce its own mobile payment wallet in India, Times of India reports... More
Samsung unveils Gear S2 with NFC
Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Gear S2, its latest smartwatch which includes NFC for payments... More
Apple granted NFC and Touch ID patents
Apple has been granted 45 patents relating to NFC, Touch ID and Apple Watch in the US, Patently Apple reports... More
Payments boost from contactless limit rise
The UK contactless limit increase from £20 to £30 could enable an extra three million Visa contactless transactions a day, worth more than £70m, Visa Europe says... More
Brits spend £2.5bn with contactless in first half of 2015
More than £2.5bn (US$3.8bn) was spent using contactless cards in the UK in the first half of 2015 compared to £2.32bn (US$3.55bn) for the whole of 2014, research from The UK Cards Association reveals as the UK contactless limit is raised from £20 (US$30) to £30 (US$46)... More
Google Play adds Android Pay option
A new update to the Google Play services app could let users select between Google Wallet and Android Pay under a ‘Tap and Pay’ option... More
UK contactless limit increases to £30
The contactless spending limit of £20 (US$30) has risen to £30 (US$46) across the UK today... More