More than half of US consumers (51%) are likely to use a bank offered mobile wallet with the top challenges for mobile wallet adoption being fear of identity theft (68%) and merchant acceptability (33%), research from CCG Catalyst reveals... More
Archive for November 2015
Mobile payments first choice for 8% of UK millennials
Some 8% of UK millennials see mobile payments becoming their primary payment method over the next decade, compared with 80% choosing cards and 11% saying cash, research from Compass Plus shows... More
Over 50s go contactless in the UK
Seven out of ten over 50 year olds in the UK now have a contactless card and one in five use it up to three times a week, research from Saga reveals... More
G&D provides NFC chip and operating system for Swatch smartwatch
PARTNER NEWS: Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing the embedded smart card chip and operating system used in the NFC contactless payment smartwatch launched by Swatch in China last month... More
Apple Pay adds 54 more US banks
Apple has added another 54 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Ypsomed to offer NFC autoinjectors that let patients track medications with their mobile phone
NFC technology is to be included in a new range of autoinjectors for patients with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis who need to self-administer their medication via regular injections, enabling them to use their mobile phone to keep track of the medications they have taken, receive alerts when their next injection is due and access usage guidelines and refill instructions. More
Amazon to discontinue mPos device
Amazon is to discontinue the credit card reader offering it debuted last year... More
Suretap adds Points loyalty cards to NFC mobile wallet
Canadian mobile wallet provider Suretap has added a loyalty section powered by the Points loyalty network to its NFC mobile wallet, enabling users to earn and use rewards offered by more than 100 global reward programs via their mobile phone... More
Chase Pay to offer payments at the pump
Users of Chase Pay, the new mobile payments service from JP Morgan Chase, will be able to make mobile payments at the pump through a programme launched by mobile commerce provider P97 Networks... More
Shenzhen Tong launches NFC transport and payment service in China
ZTE Nubia Z9 and Z9 Max owners across the Chinese city of Shenzhen can now use a service launched by transportation operator Shenzhen Tong to make NFC mobile payments for public transportation and for purchases in retail stores... More
One in five US Starbucks transactions now on mobile
Mobile payments now account for 21% of all transactions in US Starbucks-owned stores... More
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa to launch HCE in France
French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is to begin offering its customers a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments service... More
Dutch commuters to get Bluetooth offers
Dutch public transport operator Syntus is to send out offers and promotions to commuters using a national network of 3,000 Bluetooth beacons that work in conjunction with a mobile ticketing app provided by Corethree... More
Blik signs up 1.3m Poles for mobile payments
Some 1.3m Polish consumers are now using Blik, the mobile payments service backed by six of the country’s banks that lets customers make in-store and online payments, withdraw cash from ATMs and send P2P transfers with their mobile phones... More
Gemalto SIM puts multiple transit cards on NFC phones
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto has launched a new version of its UpTeq multi-tenant NFC SIM, with an embedded Mifare4Mobile v2 app allowing it to support multiple Mifare-based transport ticketing services such as those used in Los Angeles, Stockholm and Madrid... More
Visa to acquire Visa Europe
Visa has confirmed it is to acquire Visa Europe for an upfront consideration of €16.5bn with a potential additional earn-out of up to €4.7bn... More
East London commuters get free bPay wristbands for tap-to-pay travel
Train operator c2c, which runs rail services for commuters across London, Southend and Essex, is offering a free Barclaycard bPay contactless payment wristband to 8,000 selected local rail passengers in East London and Thurrock to enable them to access cheaper rail travel by tapping to pay with their wrist. More