Handset maker Micromax will soon begin offering its customers in India an NFC mobile payment service through a collaboration with Visa and payment solutions provider TranServ. More
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Samsung Pay adds major banks in US
Samsung Pay will soon support eligible credit and debit cards from TD Bank and Regions Bank, taking the total number of supporting banks and credit unions in the US to 130 — more than 75% of the country’s credit and debit card market... More
Apple Pay launches in Singapore
Apple Pay has begun rolling out across Singapore, letting consumers pay in store with compatible Apple devices and make purchases within participating mobile apps using their American Express cards, with support from Visa expected “soon”... More
New South Wales to get contactless travel
Australian commuters across New South Wales will be able to pay for public transport with their contactless credit and debit cards from next year, the NSW Government has announced... More
Dutch gas stations enable mobile payments with MyOrder
Motorists will be able to order and pay in advance for fuel at 220 Tamoil gas stations in the Netherlands from this summer using their smartphone and a new mobile refuelling feature enabled through MyOrder — the mobile ordering and payment service backed by Rabobank... More
Tourists in Japan to get fingerprint payments by 2020
The Government of Japan is to pilot a system that would let tourists verify their identity and make in-store payments using their fingerprint... More
Adobe prototype store uses RFID shopping bags
Shoppers at Adobe’s prototype “store of the future” in Las Vegas are being given RFID chip-enabled shopping bags that allow them to purchase items simply by putting the bags on a checkout counter... More
Priorbank launches HCE payments in Belarus
Customers of Priorbank in Belarus can now make mobile payments using a new HCE service that supports MasterCard and will be extended to include Visa cards later this year... More
Samsung Pay launches in China
Samsung Pay has begun rolling out across China, letting consumers make mobile payments with a compatible device “virtually anywhere you can swipe or tap your card” using their China UnionPay debit and credit cards. More
Barclays will not support Android Pay in the UK
“At this stage, we are not planning on participating in Android Pay in the UK,” British ‘big four’ bank Barclays has told NFC World... More
Santander to offer voice-activated mobile banking
Santander customers in the UK with an Apple iOS device will soon be able to use their voice to interact with their SmartBank mobile banking app in order to make payments, retrieve information such as how much they have spent and perform queries on specific transactions... More
Visa Checkout lets users slide to pay
Shoppers can now complete online purchases through Visa Checkout by sliding a virtual image of their credit, debit or prepaid card across the screen of their smartphone... 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
Canada’s TD Bank Group adds HCE to mobile payment service
Canada’s TD Bank Group has added support for host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments to the TD Mobile Payment application that it launched in May 2014. The service is the first in Canada to make use of Visa’s tokenization technology, the bank says. More
LTA to test account-based contactless ticketing in Singapore
Commuters in Singapore will be piloting a new ticketing system in the fourth quarter of this year that will let them use their contactless debit or credit cards for fare payments across Land Transport Authority (LTA) services, with the fare being charged to their credit or debit card accounts... More
Contactless spending in the UK topped £7.75bn in 2015
UK spending on contactless cards rose more than threefold in 2015 to reach £7.75bn (US$10.8bn), research from The UK Cards Association reveals, meaning that total contactless spending last year was more than double that of the preceding seven years combined... More
Nets FlashPay and AutoPass Cards get NFC phone top-ups
Commuters in Singapore can now top up their Nets FlashPay and AutoPass Cards by tapping them against an NFC Android smartphone running the FlashPay Reader app... More
Chase Pay goes to Starbucks mobile app
Users of Chase Pay will soon be able to buy food and drinks at more than 7,500 Starbucks cafés in the US through the coffee chain’s own mobile app or with the Chase Pay app... More
Gemalto and Prosa bring HCE payments to Mexico
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto and payment processor Prosa have partnered to bring host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments to Mexico... More
Morpho and Visa work on biometric authentication
ID specialist Morpho is working with Visa to explore payment concepts using new security technologies including biometric recognition... More