PARTNER NEWS: Three market research companies have named digital security giant Gemalto as the world’s number one supplier of contactless and mobile solutions for public transportation... More
- Bank of China lets taxi drivers accept central bank digital currency payments on NFC mobile phones
- Juniper forecasts 25% increase in POS terminal transaction values by 2028
- STMicroelectronics launches NFC tag chip with elliptic curve cryptography
- NFC Forum survey finds majority of consumers now prefer making payments with their mobile phone
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More than 10m consumers sign up for PayPal One Touch
More than 10m consumers have now opted in to PayPal’s One Touch mobile payments solution... More
US shoppers back mobile gift cards
More than half of US online shoppers (56%) are interested in storing gift cards on their mobile phone, according to research from CashStar... More
Westpac launches money transfers via mobile
Customers of Australian bank Westpac can now transfer money to others using only their mobile phone number... More
One in three card transactions now EMV
One in three of all card-present transactions made globally between July 2014 and June 2015 used EMV chip technology, research from EMVCo shows... More
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Target to launch its own mobile payment service?
US retail giant Target is in the early stages of developing its own mobile payment service... More
Samsung Pay to launch in China with China UnionPay
Samsung has partnered with China UnionPay to bring its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to China in early 2016. The announcement comes as Apple reveals that it has also partnered with the bank card organisation to bring Apple Pay to Chinese consumers next year. More
Apple Pay to go live in China in early 2016
Apple Pay will launch in China in early 2016 through a partnership with bank card association China UnionPay and with support from 15 of the country’s banks. More
Facebook Messenger to launch in-app taxi booking and payments
Facebook Messenger users across the US will soon be able to order and pay for an Uber taxi from within the chat app... More
White paper gives insight into mobile ticketing deployments in ten markets
A white paper aimed at giving transport operators, transport authorities and ticket distributors greater insight into deploying mobile ticketing technologies and services while both containing costs and improving the passenger experience is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre. More
Atom Bank to add face and voice authentication to mobile app
Customers of Atom Bank will be able to access their mobile banking app using face and voice recognition when the online banking startup launches in 2016... More
Wirecard expands Boon to Spain and Ireland
Consumers in Spain and Ireland can now make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments using Wirecard’s Boon service... More
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Four in ten US consumers have made a mobile payment
43% of US consumers have used a mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet or smartwatch to make an in-store purchase, up from 36% last year, research from location-based mobile platform Retale shows. PayPal takes the number one spot as the most popular mobile payment service. More
Santa’s little helpers adopt NFC technology
PARTNER NEWS: Children visiting Santa’s Grotto in Blarney Woollen Mills, Ireland, are being given NFC wristbands that are pre-encoded with information provided by their parents. As the child approaches the grotto, the wristband gets scanned by an elf and Santa’s “naughty or nice” book is automatically updated with the information so that he can talk to the children on a personal level. More
Android Pay to launch in Australia, adds in-app payments in US
Google will launch its Android Pay mobile payment service across Australia in the first half of 2016 with support from several of the country’s major financial institutions, including ANZ, Westpac, Bank of Melbourne, Bank of South Australia, Bendigo Bank, Cuscal, ING Direct, Macquarie Bank and St George. The mobile payment service has also enabled in-app payments in the US. More
Bell ID highlights benefits of becoming a token service provider
A 12-page white paper that identifies the benefits of becoming a token service provider (TSP) is now available to download from the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre... More
NFC stickers enable in-store mobile payments in Zimbabwe
Customers of mobile network operator Econet Wireless in Zimbabwe can now make in-store purchases by tapping NFC stickers affixed to their mobile devices at the point of sale, with funds automatically deducted from their EcoCash mobile money account... More
Apple Pay adds 66 US banks
Apple has added another 66 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Samsung Pay adds 19 issuers
Samsung Pay has added 19 new issuers including support for eligible PNC Visa and KeyBank MasterCard credit and debit cards... More
Half of consumers expect to be making mobile and wearable payments by 2018
Half of consumers in mature markets including North America, Japan and parts of Western Europe expect to be using smartphones or wearables to make payments by 2018, research from Gartner shows... More