European Union (EU) clippings file • NFCW

Consortium to test digital driving licences and medical prescriptions as part of EU’s European Digital Identity Wallet pilot

By Tom Phillips • 18 January 2023 • Updated 18 January 2023

Potential Consortium graphic for digital id for EU’s large-scale European Digital Identity Wallet pilot

An international consortium of 148 public and private sector organisations from 19 European Union member states and Ukraine is to develop and test digital identity prototypes across six use cases including digital driving licences and medical prescriptions as part of the EU’s large-scale European Digital Identity Wallet pilot programme... More

EU to begin large-scale European Digital Identity Wallet pilots for multiple use cases

By Tom Phillips • 21 December 2022 • Updated 21 December 2022

EU European Digital Identity Wallet pilot NOBID consortium digital payments graphic

The European Commission has selected four proposals for large-scale pilot programmes to test the European Digital Identity Wallet across multiple use cases, including in-store, online and cross-border payments, travel, ecommerce, access to services and credential verification... More

EU takes next step towards approving legislative framework for European Digital Identity Wallet

By Tom Phillips • 13 December 2022 • Updated 13 December 2022

The European Council has reached agreement on and approved a revised proposal for the legislative framework for the issuance and usage of the EU’s European Digital Identity Wallet that will enable EU citizens to store digital identity credentials including their national ID, driving licence and bank account details on their smartphone... More

EU targets 2024 for European Digital Identity Wallet launch

By Tom Phillips • 10 November 2022 • Updated 10 November 2022

Three men looking at European Digital Identity Wallet on phone

The European Union is preparing to go live with its European Digital Identity Wallet in 2024, enabling all EU citizens to store digital identity credentials including their national ID, driving licence, and qualification and bank account details, according to EU sources... More

Austria begins rollout of digital IDs for contactless identity checking

By Tom Phillips • 27 October 2022 • Updated 27 October 2022

Austria digital driving licence on smartphone for contactless identity checking

The Austrian government is enabling residents to create and store a digital version of their driving licence on their Apple or Android smartphone as a first step towards rolling out “as many digital ID cards and documents on mobile phones as possible”... More

EU confirms plans to table digital euro legislation in 2023

By Tom Phillips • 4 October 2022 • Updated 4 October 2022

The European Commission is planning to propose the legislation required for the introduction of the digital euro as a central bank digital currency issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) in 2023, EU commissioner Mairead McGuinness has confirmed... More

Finland to pilot digital identity network that lets citizens store credentials in their choice of digital wallet

By Tom Phillips • 14 September 2022 • Updated 14 September 2022

Finland is to develop and pilot an interoperable digital identity network that will enable users to securely authenticate their identity and share personal data such as professional qualifications across a wide range of use cases using ID documents and credentials stored in a digital wallet... More

European Parliament passes law that requires Apple to open up its NFC chip

By Tom Phillips • 7 July 2022 • Updated 7 July 2022

The European Parliament has adopted the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will obligate Apple, Google and other “gatekeeper” technology companies to allow app developers and third-party service providers access to device functionalities “such as near-field communication technology, secure elements and processors, authentication mechanisms and the software used to operate those technologies”... More

Two in three Europeans intend to use the EU’s Digital Identity Wallet

By Tom Phillips • 8 June 2022 • Updated 8 June 2022

Key takeaways of Thales survey on EU digital ID

Two in three Europeans (66%) would use the European Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) that the European Union plans to start piloting in 2023, a survey has found... More

Biometric remote mobile payments to be worth US$1.2tn globally by 2027

By Tom Phillips • 30 May 2022 • Updated 30 May 2022

Graph showing value of biometric remote mobile payments by 2027

Total transaction values for remote mobile payments authorised using biometric authentication technologies such as face or fingerprint recognition worldwide will reach US$1.2tn by 2027 compared with US$332bn in 2022, according to a forecast by Juniper Research... More

EU accuses Apple of breaching competition law by restricting NFC chip access

By Tom Phillips • 3 May 2022 • Updated 3 May 2022

Margrethe Vestager EU Competition-Commissioner

The European Commission has sent an official statement of objections to Apple laying out the reasons why it believes the company has “abused its dominant position in markets for mobile wallets on iOS devices” and is restricting competition by limiting third-party access to its NFC chip technology... More

EU to file antitrust charges against Apple over NFC chip access next week?

By Tom Phillips • 29 April 2022 • Updated 29 April 2022

The European Commission is expected to file antitrust charges against Apple over the company’s limitation of access to its NFC chip technology and mobile payment system next week, “four people with direct knowledge of the matter” have told the Financial Times... More

Vietnam lets citizens add internationally standardized vaccine passports to their mobile phones

By Tom Phillips • 6 April 2022 • Updated 6 April 2022

Vietnam digital Covid-19 vaccine passport on health app with qr code

Residents of Vietnam will soon be able to store a digital vaccine passport on their Android or iOS device that enables border officials to verify an individual travelling abroad has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by scanning a QR code... More

New EU law to force Apple to open up its NFC chip?

By Tom Phillips • 29 March 2022 • Updated 7 July 2022

Negotiators from the European Parliament and the European Council have provisionally agreed the text of a Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will obligate “gatekeeper” technology companies such as Apple and Google to “allow app developers fair access to the supplementary functionalities of smartphones (eg NFC chip)”... More

What's New in Payments

EU to propose legislative framework for a digital euro in ‘early 2023’

By Tom Phillips • 15 February 2022 • Updated 4 October 2022

European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness

The European Commission is to launch a consultation prior to proposing legislation that will lay out the legal framework for the ongoing development and potential issuance of a digital euro by the European Central Bank (ECB)... More

What's New in Payments

EPI calls for public funding to support pan-European payments system

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2021 • Updated 18 November 2021

The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is seeking public funding to support its development of a unified payment system across Europe that would compete with US-based networks such as Visa and Mastercard, EPI chief executive Martina Weimert has said... More

NFC World

EU to file antitrust charge against Apple over NFC chip access

By Tom Phillips • 7 October 2021 • Updated 7 October 2021

The European Commission is preparing to file an antitrust charge against Apple over the company’s limitation of access to its NFC chip technology, “people familiar with the matter” have told Reuters... More

What's New in Payments

Survey: ‘Growing number’ of Europeans support creation of national digital currencies independently of EU

By Tom Phillips • 16 September 2021 • Updated 17 September 2021

Survey graph showing growing number’ of Europeans support creation of national digital currencies independently of the EU

A “growing number” of Europeans would support the creation of national digital currencies with the specific aim of asserting “some monetary independence” from the European Union, according to a survey commissioned by Euronews... More

Research identifies lack of global standards as key barrier to implementing Covid-19 health status certificates

By Tom Phillips • 3 September 2021 • Updated 3 September 2021

Covid-19 health status certificates on smartphones graphic

A research paper published by the University of Exeter in the UK identifies the lack of global standards as one of the key barriers to the successful implementation of digital and paper-based Covid-19 health status certificates worldwide... More

Germany and Spain to test cross-border digital identity ecosystem

By Tom Phillips • 9 August 2021 • Updated 20 October 2022

German minister for digitisation Dorothee Baerrr

The governments of Germany and Spain have signed a memorandum of agreement to cooperate on the design, development and piloting of a cross-border digital identity ecosystem that will enable citizens to verify their identity and access digital services in both countries... More

NFCW

At the heart of the contactless ecosystem since 2008

European Union (EU)

34 news stories.

Consortium to test digital driving licences and medical prescriptions as part of EU’s European Digital Identity Wallet pilot

EU takes next step towards approving legislative framework for European Digital Identity Wallet

EU targets 2024 for European Digital Identity Wallet launch

Austria begins rollout of digital IDs for contactless identity checking

EU confirms plans to table digital euro legislation in 2023

European Parliament passes law that requires Apple to open up its NFC chip

Two in three Europeans intend to use the EU’s Digital Identity Wallet

Biometric remote mobile payments to be worth US$1.2tn globally by 2027

EU accuses Apple of breaching competition law by restricting NFC chip access

EU to file antitrust charges against Apple over NFC chip access next week?

Vietnam lets citizens add internationally standardized vaccine passports to their mobile phones

New EU law to force Apple to open up its NFC chip?

EU to propose legislative framework for a digital euro in ‘early 2023’

EPI calls for public funding to support pan-European payments system

EU to file antitrust charge against Apple over NFC chip access

Survey: ‘Growing number’ of Europeans support creation of national digital currencies independently of EU

Research identifies lack of global standards as key barrier to implementing Covid-19 health status certificates

Germany and Spain to test cross-border digital identity ecosystem