Samsung Pay previews in Taiwan
Samsung Pay has launched in pilot in Taiwan ahead of an official roll-out expected on 23 May... More
Archive: News in brief
Contactless proving popular with UK over 50s
Almost 12m UK consumers aged over 50 are actively using contactless payments today, with one in five doing so up to three times a week, research released by Saga Money reveals... More
UK consumers show concerns over new payment methods
Almost four in five UK consumers (77%) have concerns about using new payment methods, research released by law firm Paul Hastings reveals, with risk of fraud cited as the main reason by 59%, followed by data security incidents (49%) and risk of theft (45%)... More
PayPal applies for mobile wallet licence in India?
PayPal has applied for a prepaid payment instrument (PPI) licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to enter the mobile wallet space in the country, according to the Economic Times... More
Facebook tests in-store QR code rewards
Social media giant Facebook is testing a Rewards feature that lets users scan a personalised QR code to get discounts or bonuses when they make an in-store purchase... More
Gemalto completes 3M biometrics acquisition
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto has completed the acquisition of 3M’s Identity Management Business, adding biometric technologies to its Government Programs offering... More
HSBC adds Apple Pay in Australia
HSBC has become the latest bank in Australia to add support for Apple Pay... More
Samsung Pay rolls out to Gear S3 in Korea as Samsung Pay Mini launches
Samsung Pay is now available on the Gear S3 smartwatch in Korea and Samsung Pay Mini — the pared-down version of the mobile payment service — has also gone live in the country... More
Customer satisfaction high for banks offering mobile payments
Customer satisfaction, overall brand image and retention metrics for banks are higher among customers who have a mobile payment service linked to their bank account, findings from the J.D... More
Meet NFC World partners at Seamless Middle East
PARTNER NEWS: NFC World partners Antelop Solutions, Gemalto, Mahindra Comviva and Rambus will be attending the Seamless Middle East 2017 expo in Dubai from 1 to 2 May... More
Goode reports on growth of biometric authentication
Revenues for mobile and wearable biometric authentication will exceed US$6.2bn by 2022, Goode Intelligence predicts... More
Apple to launch P2P payments and debit card this year?
Apple is working to launch a peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service later this year, according to Recode... More
Apple marks Earth Day with Apple Pay donations
Apple is celebrating Earth Day by donating US$1 to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) whenever a customer makes a purchase in an Apple store using Apple Pay... More
Visa EMV transactions pass 1bn in the US
US consumers made more than one billion Visa chip transactions for the first time in March 2017, an increase of 330% compared to a year previous... More
US Bank ties credit card points to mobile payments
Customers of US Bank will be offered a high-end credit card from 1 May 2017 that will award them triple points per dollar spent through a mobile payment made using Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay or Microsoft Wallet... More
Amazon gets approval for digital wallet in India
Amazon India has been granted a payment license by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate its own prepaid wallet in the country... More
Bank of Korea signs up retailers for coinless society trial
The Bank of Korea (BOK) has signed up retailers including CU, 7-Eleven, E-Mart, Lotte Mart and Lotte Department Store to begin trialling a service that will give customers change in the form of a top-up to a prepaid card... More
Kiwi millennials want biometrics for payments
Some 62% of New Zealand’s millennials would like to use a fingerprint or retina scan to make payments, viewing biometrics as “secure and convenient and having the cool factor”, research released by Visa reveals... More
Zelle processed 170m P2P payments in 2016
Banks offering Early Warning’s Zelle P2P payments platform processed more than 170m P2P payments in 2016, totalling US$55bn in aggregate transaction value... More
Meet NFC World partners at Seamless Asia
PARTNER NEWS: Antelop Solutions and Rambus will be exhibiting at the Seamless Asia expo in Singapore from 19 to 20 April... More
