More than four fifths of consumers (81%) worldwide are ready to use a biometric payment card and authenticate payments with their fingerprint rather than a PIN code, according to a survey commissioned by a biometric technology provider... More
Archive for July 2021
ST and Feig let manufacturers personalise whole pallets of NFC-enabled products in their packaging
PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics and Feig Electronic have introduced a new bulk personalisation system that makes it possible for manufacturers to quickly and easily personalise large volumes of products equipped with dynamic NFC tags at a distance of up to one metre... More
MTA sees open loop fare payments double as Omny system tops 100m taps
Passengers on New York’s subway and bus services have now tapped their contactless bank card, smartphone or wearable device to pay fares using the Omny open loop fare payment system more than 100m times since its launch in May 2019, double the total of 50m the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) reported in March this year... More
New Zealand to launch national open loop contactless fare payments in 2022
Public transport users in the New Zealand city of Canterbury will be the first to be able to make contactless fare payments with a new national public transport smartcard or their own credit or debit card using an account-based open loop payments system being introduced by the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency... More
Bahrain bank unveils kids’ NFC payments band that lets parents monitor transactions
Customers of Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) can now open a prepaid card account that enables their children to make contactless in-store payments with an NFC-enabled wristband and allows parents to digitally issue allowances and monitor transactions... More
Dutch regulator calls for extra EU rules to ensure payment app access to smartphone NFC technology
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) is calling for amendments to current European Union legislation in order to ensure companies such as Apple provide payment apps with access to a smartphone’s NFC chip to give users a choice of in-store payment methods on their device... More
Paco Rabanne launches first NFC-enabled ‘connected fragrance’
Consumers purchasing Paco Rabanne’s latest fragrance for men can access a range of digital content, including information about the product, by tapping an NFC chip embedded in the bottle cap with their smartphone... More
Forecast: Contactless to account for more than half the total value of all POS transactions by 2026
Contactless payments will account for more than half (57%) of the total global value of transactions made at the point of sale (POS) by 2026, compared with just under 25% in 2021, Juniper Research predicts... More
EU Digital Covid Certificate goes live across European Union
The European Union’s Digital Covid Certificate is now live across the EU as well as in non-member states Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, enabling residents to be issued with a proof of their Covid-19 vaccination status, negative Covid test result or recovery from the illness that is recognised regionwide... More
Beijing Rail Transit lets passengers pay their fares with digital yuan
Passengers on 24 subway lines and four suburban rail services in the Chinese capital of Beijing can now use the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to make contactless payments for their fares from a digital yuan mobile wallet issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China... More
Google Pay lets users store digital Covid vaccination certificates on their Android device
Google Pay has updated its Passes API to enable healthcare organisations, government agencies and other authorised bodies to create digital Covid-19 vaccination and test result certificates that Android users can store and display directly on their mobile device even if they have not installed the Google Pay app... More
Translink to roll out interoperable fare-capped contactless ticketing across Northern Ireland
Public transport users in Northern Ireland will soon be able to make tap-on-tap-off contactless fare payments on all bus and rail services across the whole province using their debit or credit card or a single transit smartcard... More
SEPTA reveals plans to expand mobile payments for transit ticketing in Philadelphia
South East Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in the US is planning to upgrade or replace its SEPTA Key transit card system in order to offer passengers on its bus, trolley and rail networks in the Greater Philadelphia region a wider range of transit ticketing options... More
UK to raise contactless transaction limit to £100 on 5 August?
The planned increase in the UK’s contactless transaction limit from £45 to £100 announced by the UK Treasury in March could come into effect on 5 August, according to a Reddit user... More