India’s mobile wallet market will be worth US$6.6bn by 2020, research from TechSci Research reveals... 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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Starbucks rolls out mobile ordering across USA
Coffee chain Starbucks is to make its Mobile Order & Pay service available across the US so customers nationwide can place and pay for orders in advance using their iOS and Android devices... More
CTIA visitors get NFC badges
PARTNER NEWS: Visitors at CTIA Super Mobility Week 2015 in Las Vegas and IBC 2015 in Amsterdam were able to capture and exchange business cards with other attendees using NFC badges powered by NXP’s Mifare DESFire EV1 chips... More
How to develop a mobile payments roadmap — See it now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘How to develop a mobile payments roadmap’ webinar is now available to view online. 584 people signed up to take part in the live event and participants gave the webinar an overall rating of 3.8 out of five. More
Grupo Aval introduces in-store mobile payments and offers in Colombia
Grupo Aval, Colombia’s largest financial services group, has launched a mobile payment and offers service that lets customers of its Av Villas, Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente and Banco Popular banks make in-store payments using a code generated on their mobile phone. More
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HTC lists devices supporting Android Pay
Handset maker HTC has released a list of its Android Pay supporting devices following the mobile payment service’s launch across the US earlier this month... More
Six in ten US consumers yet to receive an EMV card
Close to six in ten US consumers (59%) have not yet got an EMV card and only 32% of those who have are aware that the US is moving to EMV payments, ABI Research has found... More
Pizza Hut installs Bluetooth beacons at 1,471 locations in China
Some 1,471 Pizza Hut restaurants in mainland China have installed Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons from Sensoro to send out coupons, WeChat movie ticket prizes, special offers and discounts directly to customers’ smartphones. More
Henry Holland uses NFC rings to let London Fashion Week VIPs buy direct from the catwalk
VIP guests attending fashion designer Henry Holland’s show at this week’s London Fashion Week were able to make purchases from the catwalk by tapping NFC rings against payment receiver tags attached to clothes and accessories. More
Webinar today: How to develop a mobile payments roadmap
Join NFC World and Gemalto at 3pm BST today to find out how issuers and processors can draw up a mobile payments strategy that combines a winning customer service today with a long-term roadmap for the future... More
One in four US merchants will be EMV-ready by October deadline
Only 27% of US merchants will be EMV-ready by the October liability shift, representing a seven percentage point decline from a 34% estimation in March, research from The Strawhecker Group (TSG) reveals... More
Tascent raises $18.5m for mobile iris ID
Biometric identity solutions provider Tascent has announced a US$18.5m Series A funding round to build out its biometric technology platform... More
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Axis Bank launches mobile wallet that uses sound for in-store payments
India’s Axis Bank has launched Lime, a mobile wallet that combines banking, shopping and payment services and lets customers make in-store purchases using an encrypted audio signal generated by their device. More
Apple Pay nears China launch?
Apple has reportedly set up a new company called Apple Technology Services (Shanghai) to bring Apple Pay to China... More
Macy’s adopts PayPal in-store mobile payments
US department store chain Macy’s will enable PayPal as a payment option for in-store, online and mobile purchases by the end of September 2015... More
Best Buy begins support for Apple Pay and Android Pay
US retail chain Best Buy has begun rolling out its planned support for Apple Pay as well as Android Pay... More
iPad Mini 4 includes NXP NFC chip
A teardown conducted by iFixit shows that Apple has included an NXP 65V10 NFC controller chip in its new iPad Mini 4 tablet... More
Japanese coffee chain lets customers charge purchases to their mobile phone bill
Japan’s largest coffee chain Ueshima Coffee is to let customers make purchases by charging the cost to their mobile phone bill through a partnership with carrier billing solutions provider Boku and mobile network operators KDDI and Docomo. More
Future Group to launch mobile wallet in India
Indian retail conglomerate Future Group is in the process of launching its own mobile wallet, CEO Kishore Biyani has revealed... More
80% of Brits have used alternative payment methods this year
Eight in ten UK consumers with bank accounts have used an alternative to traditional cash and plastic cards in the last 12 months, research by Gocompare.com has found. 4% have made an NFC mobile payment, 4% have used Google Wallet, 2% have used Pingit, 2% have used Apple Pay and 1% have used Paym. More