MasterCard’s Identity Check service, which lets consumers authenticate payments by taking a picture of themselves using their smartphone, has “gone like wildfire in the trials that we’ve done in the Netherlands and the US”, Ann Cairns, the payments network’s president for international markets, has revealed during a keynote at Money20/20 Europe in Copenhagen... More
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BMO to offer ‘selfie pay’ biometric verification technology to customers
Canadian financial services provider BMO Financial Group is to enable its customers to use MasterCard’s Identity Check mobile app to verify their online transactions via face recognition and fingerprint biometrics... More
Google to launch Android Pay in the UK in the “next few months”
Google has announced that it is to launch its Android Pay mobile payment service in the UK within the “next few months.” The service will launch with support from MasterCard, Visa and eight UK financial institutions. Barclays, one of the UK’s “big four” banks and an NFC mobile payments pioneer, is a notable absence from the list. More
Austria gets nationwide SIM-based NFC mobile payment service
Austrians can now make SIM-based NFC mobile payments using a new nationwide mobile payment service launched by Payment Services Austria (PSA) and supported by Austria Card... More
Amazon files selfie pay patent
Amazon has applied for a patent that would enable consumers to authenticate a transaction by taking a picture of their face... More
Carta Worldwide renews partnership with NFC World
NFC World is pleased to welcome transaction technology provider Carta Worldwide as a partner for a second year. Carta is an award-winning leader in next-generation transaction processing and mobile payment technologies including host card emulation (HCE), cloud-based secure elements and tokenization. More
People’s United Bank adds Samsung Pay
Customers of People’s United Bank in the US can now add their debit cards to Samsung Pay... More
ExxonMobil rolls out Apple Pay at the pump
Motorists across the US can now pay for their fuel at the pump at more than 6,000 ExxonMobil gas stations using Apple Pay and the fuel retailer’s Speedpass+ mobile payment app. The oil and gas company plans to expand the app’s availability to more than 8,000 locations by mid-year. More
mBank cancels NFC SIM deals in favour of HCE and bank-backed Blik mobile payments
Poland’s mBank has withdrawn the facility for customers to add mobile versions of their debit cards to the NFC payments services offered by mobile network operators T-Mobile and Orange... More
MasterCard to include Daon technology in selfie pay service
MasterCard is to make use of mobile biometric technology provider Daon’s IdentityX Platform as one of the authentication technologies for MasterCard Identity Check, the ‘selfie pay’ service it is rolling out to the US, Canada and parts of Europe this year... More
Madrid pilots contactless ticketing
Commuters in Madrid are piloting contactless bank card payments on 33 buses across two bus lines as a result of a partnership between EMT, which operates the city’s bus network, and MasterCard, Banco Santander and Santander Elavon... More
Czech buses get contactless ticketing
Commuters in the Czech Republic can now pay for bus fares using their contactless payment cards through a partnership between transport network BusLine and MasterCard... More
MasterCard to support Apple Pay in Canada?
MasterCard could begin supporting Apple Pay in Canada this year, according to a MacRumors report... More
MasterCard offers Apple Pay users free travel in London
MasterCard cardholders using Apple Pay can travel for free around London for the next three consecutive Mondays... More
Trust in Apple as a mobile wallet brand increases in the UK
Trust in Apple as a mobile wallet provider has increased to 25% among UK consumers, nearing the 27% trust shown for MasterCard, market researcher Marketing Sciences reveals... More
Telenor Wallet adds MasterPass
Customers of Hungarian mobile network operator Telenor can now make online and in-app payments using Telenor Wallet and MasterPass... More
CU Wallet to offer MasterPass to 120 credit unions
The 120 member credit unions behind mobile payment platform CU Wallet can now offer MasterCard’s MasterPass digital wallet service to their customers through their own branded mobile apps... More
MasterCard to launch ‘selfie pay’ in the US, Canada and Europe this summer
Consumers across the US, Canada and parts of Europe will soon be able to authenticate their online transactions with their fingerprint or face using MasterCard’s ‘selfie pay’ system. The confirmed launch of the service — expected this summer — follows a successful pilot in the Netherlands. More
ARM includes AMS NFC payments booster in wearables reference design
PARTNER NEWS: A new reference design for wearables from processor designer ARM includes high-performance NFC technology from AMS that enables small-footprint devices with tiny antennas to couple with NFC readers as easily and reliably as a contactless card... More
G&D connects its issuers to MDES for tokenization
PARTNER NEWS: Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has integrated its Convego CloudPay solution with the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) to enable issuers to work directly with G&D to implement tokenization for their host card emulation (HCE) based wallets... More