Mobile marketing, payments and commerce specialist i-Free has become the first Russian firm to join the NFC Forum... More
Archive: Newswire
STMicroelectronics reports NFC design wins from major handset manufacturers
STMicroelectronics‘ latest financial results include a mention of recent successes the company has experienced with its ST21NFCA NFC controller chip... More
Bell ID and PPC to offer hosted NFC management services
Bell ID and Dutch EMV card personalisation bureau PPC Card Systems have announced they are teaming up to provide hosted NFC application provisioning and management services... More
Bling Nation adds mobile rewards and Facebook integration to merchants’ POS terminals
Bling Nation has launched FanConnect, a new platform that enables merchants to offer mobile rewards and connect with customers via social networking services at the checkout... More
European Payments Council and GSMA publish specifications for Trusted Service Managers
The European Payments Council (EPC) and the GSMA have published a joint paper that defines a minimum set of requirements for a Trusted Service Manger (TSM) acting as the interface between a bank and a mobile operator in a SIM-based NFC service... More
HID Global launches combined contactless payment and ticketing device platform
HID Global has introduced a new embedded reader platform which is designed to make it easy for solutions providers to develop services that combine both closed and open loop payment schemes as well as leading transport ticketing technologies and protocols... More
Datacard acquires in-branch NFC payments personalization provider
Datacard has acquired Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS), providers of the CardWizard Perso-to-Go instant in-branch card personalization and issuing solution used by 500 banks, predominantly in the US... More
ACS adds biometrics to NFC reader
Hong Kong-based Advanced Card Systems (ACS) has launched a new NFC reader which incorporates a fingerprint sensor, enabling biometric identification and verification to be added to PC-based contactless and near field communication applications... More
Consortium wins funding to develop specialist NFC TSM for home healthcare services
A new consortium formed by IT services provider Extelia, NFC specialist Inside Contactless and French regional social services provider Abrapa has won funding from the French government to develop a trusted third party platform designed to deliver an improved service to the elderly and other recipients of home care services... More
Proxama and Tuxedo announce NFC solution for prepaid cards
NFC specialist Proxama has partnered with white label prepaid card issuer Tuxedo Money Solutions to introduce an NFC-enabled version of prepaid MasterCard PayPass contactless cards... More
Bank of America NFC trial to focus on customer experience
Bank of America’s trial of DeviceFidelity’s microSD format NFC solution in New York will focus on the customer experience, the bank’s Michael Upton has told Bank Info Security in an in-depth interview... More
Visa aims to partner with Silicon Valley mobile payments innovators
Visa’s head of mobile, Bill Gajda, recruited from the GSM Association earlier this year, is spending much of his time convincing Silicon Valley companies they should partner with the payments processing giant rather than try to go it alone with new mobile payments technologies, a Forbes profile explains... More
NFC bank branch developer A Little World raises $18m from State Bank of India
State Bank of India (SBI) has acquired a 20% stake in A Little World (ALW), developer of an NFC-based low cost bank branch solution, DealCurry reports... More
Sony and HID Global to bring NFC to laptop PCs
HID Global and Sony have announced plans to enter into a strategic partnership to jointly develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for laptop PCs... More
Asia-Pacific mobile payments market to double in five years
The Asia-Pacific mobile payments market is set to double to US$3.6bn by 2015, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan... More
EMV adoption reaches one billion cards and 15m terminals
EMVCo, the payments chip card standards body owned by MasterCard, Visa, American Express and JCB, has revealed that there are now more than one billion EMV cards and 15.4 million EMV terminals in use around the world... More
Orange and Valeo demonstrate NFC car key concept
Automotive components supplier Valeo has partnered with Orange to demonstrate a near field communication-based solution for sharing vehicles between several drivers... More
Bell ID partners with Vivotech for mass market TSM solutions
Dutch card and application lifecycle management provider Bell ID has partnered with NFC specialist Vivotech to provide integrated Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solutions for NFC service providers... More
Lack of handsets continues to delay Etisalat’s commercial NFC service
A lack of commercially available handsets is continuing to cause frustration at Dubai-based mobile network operator Etisalat... More
London’s transport network could be NFC-ready for the Olympics
Transport for London (TfL) will have converted all London buses to enable them to accept payment for fares via contactless bank cards by early 2012 and will complete conversion of the London Underground network by the end of that year, according to a report by regional TV news programme London Tonight... More