Retailers on a street in Sydney are reportedly banning payments with notes and coins in favour of contactless... 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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Sacramento Kings fans get mobile ordering and payments
Fans of US basketball team the Sacramento Kings will soon be able to use NFC mobile payment services and place orders from their device for concession pickup and direct-to-seat delivery at the Sleep Train Arena and Golden 1 Center... More
Kohl’s and Walgreens add loyalty to Apple Pay
US retailers Kohl’s and Walgreens have become the first to integrate their loyalty programs with Apple Pay, allowing Kohl’s Charge Card and Walgreens’ Balance Reward customers to earn and redeem points using their iPhones... More
SwissWallet to go live for online payments
A joint venture between credit card companies Aduno Group and Swisscard and software provider Netcetera is to launch the SwissWallet payments platform in Switzerland... More
‘Contactless’ shortlisted for UK word of the year
‘Contactless’ has made the shortlist for the 2015 Collins Word of the Year but missed out on the top spot to the word ‘Binge-watch’... More
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RapidNFC reports rise in demand for NFC within care sector
PARTNER NEWS: Bespoke NFC tag supplier and manufacturer RapidNFC has reported a substantial rise in the use of NFC within the care sector... More
Hiku integrates voice-enabled shopping device with online grocery services
US startup Hiku Labs has signed up retail giant Walmart and online grocery service Peapod for a service that lets shoppers scan or speak items onto a mobile shopping list via a US$49 device that includes a barcode scanner and built-in microphone. More
MIT technology identifies humans through walls
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have presented a new technology called RF Capture that uses wireless reflections to identify silhouettes through walls... More
US consumers prefer bank offered mobile wallets
More than half of US consumers (51%) are likely to use a bank offered mobile wallet with the top challenges for mobile wallet adoption being fear of identity theft (68%) and merchant acceptability (33%), research from CCG Catalyst reveals... More
Mobile payments first choice for 8% of UK millennials
Some 8% of UK millennials see mobile payments becoming their primary payment method over the next decade, compared with 80% choosing cards and 11% saying cash, research from Compass Plus shows... More
Over 50s go contactless in the UK
Seven out of ten over 50 year olds in the UK now have a contactless card and one in five use it up to three times a week, research from Saga reveals... More
G&D provides NFC chip and operating system for Swatch smartwatch
PARTNER NEWS: Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is providing the embedded smart card chip and operating system used in the NFC contactless payment smartwatch launched by Swatch in China last month. More
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Apple Pay adds 54 more US banks
Apple has added another 54 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US... More
Ypsomed to offer NFC autoinjectors that let patients track medications with their mobile phone
NFC technology is to be included in a new range of autoinjectors for patients with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis who need to self-administer their medication via regular injections, enabling them to use their mobile phone to keep track of the medications they have taken, receive alerts when their next injection is due and access usage guidelines and refill instructions. More
Amazon to discontinue mPos device
Amazon is to discontinue the credit card reader offering it debuted last year... More
Suretap adds Points loyalty cards to NFC mobile wallet
Canadian mobile wallet provider Suretap has added a loyalty section powered by the Points loyalty network to its NFC mobile wallet, enabling users to earn and use rewards offered by more than 100 global reward programs via their mobile phone. More
Chase Pay to offer payments at the pump
Users of Chase Pay, the new mobile payments service from JP Morgan Chase, will be able to make mobile payments at the pump through a programme launched by mobile commerce provider P97 Networks... More
Shenzhen Tong launches NFC transport and payment service in China
ZTE Nubia Z9 and Z9 Max owners across the Chinese city of Shenzhen can now use a service launched by transportation operator Shenzhen Tong to make NFC mobile payments for public transportation and for purchases in retail stores. More
One in five US Starbucks transactions now on mobile
Mobile payments now account for 21% of all transactions in US Starbucks-owned stores... More
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa to launch HCE in France
French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa is to begin offering its customers a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments service... More