Samsung has confirmed its mobile payment service Samsung Pay will be made available on its recently unveiled Gear S2 smartwatch from November, Droid Life reports... More
Archive: News in brief
HCE webinar: one week to go
Join NFC World and SimplyTapp on September 10 for a unique opportunity to put your questions on HCE, tokenization, Apple Pay, Android Pay and more to host card emulation pioneer Doug Yeager... More
TSB offers contactless cashback incentive
UK bank TSB is rewarding customers with 5% cashback on the first £100 (US$152) spent from a Classic Plus account each month using a contactless debit card... More
MyECheck offers QR mobile payments
Electronic check technology provider MyECheck has launched a mobile payments service that will let consumers make payments by scanning QR codes... More
First Internet Bank enables Eyeprint ID
US-based First Internet Bank is letting customers log in to their mobile banking app by scanning their eye, using Eyeprint ID technology, rather than entering a user ID and password... More
US bank CEOs fear Apple competition
Almost half of US bank CEOs and directors worry about potential competition from Apple, with 63% saying they don’t think their bank is ready to offer Apple Pay, findings from Bank Director’s 2015 Growth Strategy Survey reveals... More
Nintendo unveils New Nintendo 3DS with NFC
Nintendo’s New Nintendo 3DS system will launch in the US on September 25, including “a wider range of controls, face-tracking 3D and built-in NFC functionality that allows for communication with Amiibo figures”, the company says... More
Gulf Bank brings contactless POS with NFC
Gulf Bank has become the first bank in Kuwait to launch contactless POS terminals capable of accepting NFC payments, following a partnership with electronic banking services company Knet and MasterCard... More
Android Pay will launch ‘very soon’
Android Pay will launch “very, very soon,” Google’s head of commerce partnerships Jack Connors told Mobile Payments Conference in Chicago this week... More
RBC gets Secure Cloud payments patent
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been awarded a patent for its Secure Cloud mobile payments platform by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering the use of secure tokens by the bank’s clients to facilitate payments from mobile devices... More
Google ‘shut down’ beacon project
A Google service called Google Here that would send notifications via Google Maps and beacons in participating stores was shut by CEO Larry Page this year... More
PayPal launches PayPal.Me
PayPal has launched a P2P payment service in 18 countries that lets consumers request money by sharing a personal PayPal.Me link... More
India biometrics market to grow 35% by 2020
India’s biometrics market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 35% from 2015 through 2020, according to TechSci Research... More
Ingenico joins WorldPay bidding war
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico has submitted a bid for UK-based payment processor WorldPay... More
Sony unveils Wena Wrist with NFC payments
Sony is crowdfunding a new smartwatch called Wena Wrist that is equipped with NFC payments compatible with the Japanese Felica standard... More
Uber ‘to launch mobile wallet in India’
Taxi service Uber is to introduce its own mobile payment wallet in India, Times of India reports... More
Samsung unveils Gear S2 with NFC
Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Gear S2, its latest smartwatch which includes NFC for payments... More
Apple granted NFC and Touch ID patents
Apple has been granted 45 patents relating to NFC, Touch ID and Apple Watch in the US, Patently Apple reports... More
Payments boost from contactless limit rise
The UK contactless limit increase from £20 to £30 could enable an extra three million Visa contactless transactions a day, worth more than £70m, Visa Europe says... More
Google Play adds Android Pay option
A new update to the Google Play services app could let users select between Google Wallet and Android Pay under a ‘Tap and Pay’ option... More