Samsung Pay has begun rolling out in Malaysia with support from CIMB, Citibank and Standard Chartered, with Hong Leong Bank coming soon... More
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Google unveils Android Wear 2.0 and new watch with support for NFC mobile payments
Google has officially unveiled Android Wear 2.0, the new version of its operating system for smartwatches, and two new watches from LG — one of which comes with NFC to support HCE mobile payments using Android Pay... More
PayPal launches Slack payments bot
PayPal customers in the US, UK, Australia and Canada can now send money to each other using a PayPal bot on team messaging service Slack... More
Tim Hortons and Burger King to get mobile order and pay?
Customers at Tim Hortons and Burger King restaurants in Canada will soon be able to order and pay in advance using a mobile phone app... More
Volkswagen targets mobile payments business with parking service deal
Volkswagen Financial Services AG, the financial services division of German vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen Group, has bought mobile payment platform PayByPhone to “highly increase” its involvement in mobile payments around the world and to establish a “separate business field around the theme of parking”... More
Two fifths of global card-present payments use EMV standard
More than two fifths of all card-present transactions conducted globally (42%) between July 2015 and June 2016 used the EMV chip card standard, up from 33% for the previous 12-month period, standards body EMVCo has revealed... More
Canadian bank replaces NFC SIM-based service with HCE
Canada’s Scotiabank has replaced the NFC SIM-based mobile payments service inside its My Mobile Wallet app with a host card emulation (HCE) based solution, the bank has confirmed to NFC World... More
American Express launches NFC mobile payments in Canada
American Express cardholders across Canada can now make NFC mobile payments using Amex Pay, a new feature added to the Amex App... More
Mastercard biometric service rolls out to Latin America
Mastercard has launched its biometric Identity Check Mobile service in Brazil and Mexico, the payments giant has confirmed... More
Growth in millennials’ mobile commerce use
Eighty-eight percent of US millennials are conducting transactions from their mobile device with 15% doing so multiple times a day, research from mobile capture and identity verification firm Mitek shows... More
Carta to host payments and fintech leaders at Mobey Day Toronto
PARTNER NEWS: Carta Worldwide is preparing to welcome leaders from across the payments and financial technology industry to the first Mobey Day in North America, to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto from 7-8 December... More
Montreal to get NFC transport payments
Some 100 employees of Montreal’s public transit network STM are beta-testing a service that will enable commuters on the Metro to pay using their NFC smartphones... More
PayPal launches Siri payment requests in 30 countries
PayPal has enabled money transfers via Apple’s Siri voice command function, enabling users with iOS10 devices to make payments by speaking requests... More
CIBC to be Samsung Pay’s Canada launch partner?
A screenshot taken by a Reddit user of the Samsung Pay app suggests Canadian bank CIBC will be the launch partner for the mobile payment service when it becomes available in the country some time this year... More
Blockchain NFC start-up focuses on expansion after $10m funding
Canadian payments start-up NanoPay has completed a US$10m Series A funding round... More
Samsung Pay set to go live in Canada?
Samsung Pay could be launched in Canada “from the first week of November 2016”, Android Central reports... More
Mastercard to roll out biometric ID service in North America
Mastercard will launch its biometric identity verification system across North America in the first half of 2017, with Canadian bank BMO Financial Group the first to offer the service to its corporate customers... More
Mobile payments awareness up in North America, but usage remains flat
Nearly six in 10 North American consumers (56%) are now aware of mobile payment services — a 4% increase from this time last year, research from Accenture has revealed... More
Android Pay heads to Canada
Android Pay may be heading to Canada judging by the mobile app’s most recent update which “seems to list strings of code that includes references to Interac,” according to Android Headlines... More
Desjardins to support Apple Pay in 2017
Canadian cooperative financial group Desjardins is to begin offering Apple Pay to its members and customers... More