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Ford lets commercial vehicle drivers process payments from their connected vehicle app

By Tom Phillips • 30 November 2020 • Updated 30 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Fordpass Pro connected vehicle payment processing app

Food and beverage suppliers, mobile florists, couriers and other small business owners in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK can now use their FordPass Pro connected vehicle app to accept card payments from their customers... More


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Central Bank of Iceland rolls out instant payments platform

By Tom Phillips • 30 November 2020 • Updated 30 November 2020 • nfcw.com

The Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) has implemented a new real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) and instant payment platform that will allow it to manage up to 5m interbank, P2P, P2B and B2B payments a day... More


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Digital greeting cards giant Evite adds contactless gifting

By Tom Phillips • 27 November 2020 • Updated 27 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Evite digital egift cards

Senders of Evite digital greeting cards can now also send the recipient a gift card, via an integration with Blackhawk Network‘s eGift service... More


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UBS launches sustainable credit card made from corn

By Tom Phillips • 25 November 2020 • Updated 25 November 2020 • nfcw.com
UBS Optimus Foundation eco credit card

Customers of Swiss bank UBS can now opt for an environmentally friendly credit card made from a corn-based plastic substitute — and will soon be able to apply for a digital-only card that they can start using immediately upon acceptance... More


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OP Financial to pilot biometric payment card in Finland

By Tom Phillips • 23 November 2020 • Updated 23 November 2020 • nfcw.com
OP Financial logo

Finland’s OP Financial Group is to pilot a biometric payment card that will allow users to authenticate payments over the contactless transaction limit with their fingerprint rather than with a PIN. More


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Stocard rolls out mobile payments service in four more European countries

By Tom Phillips • 23 November 2020 • Updated 23 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Stocard Pay mobile payments on Apple iPhone and Apple Watch

Leading European mobile loyalty wallet provider Stocard has expanded its Stocard Pay service to users in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, enabling them to make in-store NFC payments in addition to using the wallet to access loyalty cards and redeem rewards... More


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Nordic countries record surge in contactless payments during pandemic

By Tom Phillips • 20 November 2020 • Updated 20 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Nets Nordic graph showing contactless adoption in the region

The proportion of in-store purchases made using contactless cards in the Nordic countries has risen from 57% in January this year to 75% in late October, an increase “in part driven by concerns around the potential spread of Covid-19,” regional payments processor Nets reports... More


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Google Pay to launch mobile-first bank accounts in the USA in 2021

By Tom Phillips • 20 November 2020 • Updated 20 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay mobile first Plex bank account

Consumers in the USA will be able to open mobile-first checking and saving accounts with 11 banks and credit unions from within Google Pay from 2021, Google has revealed in a blog post that also announces the launch of a redesigned version of the Google Pay app for both Android and iOS... More


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American Express adds instant digital card provisioning for Apple Pay

By Tom Phillips • 20 November 2020 • Updated 20 November 2020 • nfcw.com
American Express on Apple Pay Digital Wallet

American Express cardholders in the USA can now add their card to their Apple Pay wallet via the card network’s website as soon as their application has been approved, removing the need to wait for a physical card to arrive or to manually input their card details... More


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US credit union pilots dynamic CVV codes on mobile devices

By Tom Phillips • 20 November 2020 • Updated 20 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Keyno mobile app for dynamic CVV generation

Members of Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) in the USA are to take part in a three-month pilot scheme to test the use of dynamic CVV codes when making online or in-app purchases with their credit card... More


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Huawei Pay goes live in Malaysia

By Tom Phillips • 19 November 2020 • Updated 19 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Huawei Pay mobile wallet for NFC mobile payments

Malaysian consumers with compatible Huawei smartphones can now use Huawei Pay to make NFC mobile payments with an ICBC UnionPay credit card stored in their mobile wallet. More


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Survey finds 7 in 10 Swedish consumers are interested in having a biometric payment card

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Zwipe logo

Some 70% of Swedish consumers would be interested in having a biometric payment card so they can make high-value transactions without having to touch a point-of-sale (POS) terminal, a new survey reveals — and 59% would be willing to pay a monthly fee for one. More


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Google Pay expands to 10 extra countries in Europe

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay logo

Google Pay has gone live in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal and Romania with support for Mastercard and Visa cards issued by participating banks and card issuers. More


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RBR: 100m merchants worldwide to accept card payments by end 2025

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
RBR graph showing number of merchant outlets by scheme 2019

The number of outlets worldwide accepting card payments will reach nearly 100m by the end of 2025, an increase driven by government initiatives to promote cashless payments and by an acceleration in the move to contactless payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, research from RBR predicts... More


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JCB reports 30% rise in contactless payments volumes

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
JCB contactless payments adoption report Payment perspectives and future-gazing 2020

The number of contactless transactions made by some 140 million JCB cardholders across 24 markets increased by more than 30% between July 2019 and July this year, the Tokyo-based payments network reports in a new white paper... More


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Standard Bank to support contactless payments in 15 African countries

By Tom Phillips • 17 November 2020 • Updated 17 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Standard Bank logo

Standard Bank is supporting the mass rollout of contactless cards across Africa as the financial services group reports an accelerated increase in the use of tap and pay across the continent. More


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Pandemic spurs half of US shoppers to try mobile contactless payments

By Tom Phillips • 17 November 2020 • Updated 17 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Inmar Intelligence logo

More than half (53%) of today’s shoppers have used a mobile contactless payment option for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey by USA-based Inmar Intelligence. More


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Facebook digital currency researchers publish ultra high-speed payments paper

By Tom Phillips • 16 November 2020 • Updated 16 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Facebook's Novi digital wallet payments app

A digital transaction settlement system being developed by researchers working on Facebook’s Novi cryptocurrency digital wallet app could support up to 160,000 transactions per second, “about 7x the peak transaction rate of the Visa payments network”, according to a paper published by the research team... More


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Lebanon to issue digital currency in 2021

By Tom Phillips • 16 November 2020 • Updated 16 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Banque du Liban

Banque du Liban, the central bank of Lebanon, is preparing to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) next year, the bank’s governor Riad Salameh has told a meeting of the Lebanese Depositors Association. More


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More than 500m iPhone users have now activated Apple Pay

By Tom Phillips • 12 November 2020 • Updated 12 November 2020 • nfcw.com
iPhone being used to make Apple Pay contactless NFC payment

The number of iPhone users globally that have activated Apple Pay has grown by 66m over the past year, from 441m in September 2019 to 507m in September 2020, according to a study published by Loup Ventures... More


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