Canada’s CIBC bank has expanded availability of its CIBC Mobile Payment app to include owners of Samsung Galaxy S III, S4, Note II and HTC One Android NFC phones, enabling a wider range of customers to make NFC payments... More
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Royal Bank of Canada launches NFC payments in the cloud
Royal Bank of Canada has introduced an NFC mobile payments service that stores customers’ card details in the cloud... More
Tim Hortons launches NFC payments service using Host Card Emulation
North American coffee chain Tim Hortons has launched an NFC mobile payments service using Host Card Emulation (HCE) at 3,500 locations in Canada and 800 in the United States... More
Edmonton mall goes NFC
Shoppers at the Southgate Centre mall in Edmonton, Canada, can now access a range of information and offers by tapping their NFC phone to interactive directory points provided by Visionstate... More
Rogers picks Sequent for NFC
Canadian carrier Rogers Communications has chosen Sequent’s Wallet Management Platform for its recently announced Suretap wallet... More
Rogers to offer Suretap open mobile wallet in Canada
Canadian carrier Rogers is to make an open NFC mobile wallet available to its customers “in the coming weeks.” The new Suretap Wallet, which is separate from the Suretap payments service launched last November in partnership with CIBC, will allow Rogers to work “cooperatively with all banks to ensure numerous cards from many different banks are available in the Suretap Wallet.”... More
Canadian banks to launch NFC mobile wallet
Canadian banks President’s Choice Financial and TD Bank Group are to launch Ugo, an open NFC mobile wallet, in 2014... More
CIBC adds Q10 NFC payments
Canadian Bank CIBC has extended availability of its NFC payments service to BlackBerry Q10 owners... More
Telus prepares to launch NFC
Canadian mobile network operator Telus is to begin making NFC SIMs available to subscribers on 10 October, according to an internal document seen by Mobile Syrup, marking the start of its NFC rollout... More
CIBC launches BlackBerry 10 NFC payments app
Canadian bank CIBC has released a BlackBerry 10 version of its CIBC Mobile Payment app allowing BlackBerry Z10 owners to make NFC payments... More
Desjardins to offer NFC payments in Canada
Canadian cooperative financial group Desjardins is to roll out NFC payments to members and clients in 2014, using a mobile payment application developed by Monitise... More
MasterCard CEO: NFC should be seen as “a longer term effort”
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga has suggested that NFC should be seen as a longer term effort, while acknowledging that some markets have adopted NFC much faster than others... More
Linkett transforms ordinary TVs into interactive ad panels
Canadian digital signage network WestonExpressions has introduced Linkett, a device that plugs into a USB or HDMI connection to transform standard TVs into NFC-enabled interactive advertising displays... More
RBC to launch NFC payments in the cloud
Canadian bank RBC is to introduce an NFC mobile payments service that stores customers’ card details in the cloud... More
Sony promotes NFC in Canada
Sony Canada‘s UX Truck roadshow has begun a tour of Ontario, showcasing to consumers the company’s wide range of NFC devices... More
RBC and Bell to launch NFC payments in Canada
Canadian bank RBC and mobile network operator Bell have announced plans to jointly introduce an NFC payments service... More
TapMeTags and xpWallet team up
New Delhi-based mobile wallet solutions provider xpWallet has announced a partnership with Toronto-based NFC specialist TapMeTags... More
Interac debuts NFC debit card payments in Canada
RBC Royal Bank and Scotiabank both plan to make the new mobile payments service available to their customers later this year — and RBC has announced it will now make all Interac Flash contactless payments available free of charge to its account holders. More
Rogers adds Suretap phones
Canadian mobile network operator Rogers has added three Android and four BlackBerry NFC phones to the list of devices that work with its Suretap NFC payments service... More
Telus mobile payments coming “very soon”
Future Telus smartphones will use Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM cards to securely store customer credentials, it was announced today... More