PARTNER NEWS: Mobile financial solutions firm Mahindra Comviva has launched PayPlus Aadhaar Pay, a merchant payment acceptance solution designed for rural India that will enable merchants to accept in-store payments through Aadhaar numbers and biometric-based authentication... More
Archive: Partner news
STMicroelectronics announces new NFC devices for contactless payments and IoT
PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics has released a new set of NFC devices for contactless payments and data exchange, including the ST21NFCD NFC controller and ST54 Systems in Packages containing the controller and an embedded Secure Element (eSE)... More
Magazine focuses on Indian demonetisation and mobile money
PARTNER NEWS: A 36-page magazine featuring articles about the post-demonetisation era in India and the best practices for enhancing the customer experience of using mobile money is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
NXP unveils IoT security platform
PARTNER NEWS: NXP has unveiled a platform designed to enable developers of Internet of Things equipment to “easily build” secure and trusted systems... More
Mahindra Comviva wins award for mobile wallet remittance network
PARTNER NEWS: Mahindra Comviva has won an Aegis Graham Bell award for TerraPay, an international payment network that offers wholesale remittance services to mobile wallet providers... More
Proxama signs South African EMV deal
PARTNER NEWS: Proxama has signed a five-year contract with a “leading South African insurance and financial services provider” for the supply of in-house EMV card issuing, PIN management and card life cycle management... More
NXP predicts ePassports will become virtual mobile identities
PARTNER NEWS: The electronic passport could soon become a “virtual mobile identity” that will allow owners to interact with and authenticate applications, as well as send credentials to other electronic devices using NFC smartphones and wearables, according to NXP... More
Scottish commuters to pilot HCE ticketing across subway system
PARTNER NEWS: Commuters across western Scotland are to begin testing a host card emulation (HCE) based ticketing service in the second quarter of 2017, that will enable them to securely load a virtual smart card to their mobile phone and pay for journeys across the Glasgow Subway with a tap of their NFC device... More
CPI Card Group and Proxama to offer innovative mobile and EMV payments services in North America
PARTNER NEWS: Payments solutions provider CPI Card Group has chosen to use technology supplied by digital payments solution provider Proxama to deliver “innovative financial and payments products” to its North American customer base, including mobile and EMV-related services... More
Gemalto secures mobile payments and loyalty pilot
PARTNER NEWS: Retail giant Carrefour is piloting a mobile payments and loyalty service in France, secured with Gemalto’s Mobile Protector platform, that allows customers to validate payments with a PIN code or their fingerprint, receive and redeem coupons and access loyalty programs... More
Guide explains key concepts of tokenization
A 12-page guide that presents an overview of tokenization, how it secures mobile payments and where it fits into the payment processing chain is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
Dejamobile joins the NFC World partner program
NFC World today welcomes mobile payments solution provider Dejamobile as a member of our partner program... More
ST creates reference design to simplify wearable payment deployments
PARTNER NEWS: A new reference design from STMicroelectronics (ST) will make it easier for wearable manufacturers to develop and deploy integrated tokenized payment services that meet Mastercard and Visa requirements... More
NXP reveals solutions for secure wearables and IoT at CES 2017
PARTNER NEWS: NXP has unveiled a series of solutions for secure wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) at CES 2017, including a new test bed to support the development of products and applications using embedded secure element (eSE) technology and a new module to add support for NFC to a wide range of wearables, home appliances and IoT devices... More
STMicroelectronics to use NFC assets acquired from AMS to deliver next-generation solutions
PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics (ST) will use its July acquisition of NFC and RFID products, resources, technologies and intellectual property from AMS to create a new generation of high-performance NFC solutions for both mass-market and vertical-market applications, the company’s Sylvain Fidelis and Mark Dickson have told NFC World... More
Mahindra Comviva adds chatbot payments to mobile wallet
PARTNER NEWS: Customers using mobile financial services firm Mahindra Comviva’s Mobiquity Wallet can now make payments through a chatbot integration designed to assist consumers “through their digital payments journey with their banks”... More
Huawei Pay NFC mobile payments rolled out across China public transport
PARTNER NEWS: Smartphone maker Huawei is to begin rolling out NFC mobile payments for public transport in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Beijing through Huawei Pay, which launched in China in September 2016... More
Mahindra Comviva takes digital payment services to the cloud
PARTNER NEWS: Mobile financial solutions firm Mahindra Comviva’s Mobiquity Wallet and PayPlus digital payment services are now available in the cloud, enabling banks to “deploy services faster, adapt to markets quicker and serve their customers better”... More
White paper presents contactless success stories from around the world
A 15-page white paper that presents the success stories of contactless implementations in payment, transport and events from around the world is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
Cartes Bancaires picks Gemalto to ease member banks’ NFC mobile payments offer
PARTNER NEWS: Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (GIE CB), the French bank card association which pioneered the use of chip cards for payments in the 1980s, has selected Pure, Gemalto’s white label mobile wallet solution, to enable its member banks to more quickly deploy their own NFC mobile and in-app payment services by bypassing one-to-one negotiations with international payment schemes... More