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Barclaycard: Realising the potential of conversational commerce is crucial

Barclaycard Conversational Commerce

Having information about how, when and why consumers seek to contact organisations through digital assistants and chatbots and understanding why they are gravitating towards doing so is critical to achieving the full potential of conversational commerce, according to Barclaycard’s managing director of future payments Nick Kerigan and director of future payments Sanjaya Shrestha. More



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AFSCM to launch NFC services across France with key MNOs

AFSCM

French NFC trade association AFSCM has partnered with three major mobile network operators to roll out SIM-based NFC services in France. The association is working with Oberthur Technologies (OT) to build a common hub with Bouygues Telecom, Orange and SFR which will enable a “massive launch of NFC services” in the country. More





Researchers bring sensing capabilities to paper using RFID

PaperID

Researches from the University of Washington, Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have created a way to give a piece of paper sensing capabilities that enable it to respond to gesture commands and connect to the digital world using RFID tags that can be stuck, printed or drawn on the paper. More




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NXP launches improved NFC connected tags and reader chips

NXP

PARTNER NEWS: NXP has unveiled two new NFC products — an improved “connected tag” range designed to add intelligent tap-and-go connectivity to just about any electronic device and the PN7462 family of single chip NFC reader solutions that combine a microprocessor with USB, contact and contactless interfaces... More


What's New in Payments

Mahindra Comviva offers NFC cash withdrawals at ATMs

Mahindra Comviva

PARTNER NEWS: Customers using banking apps powered by Mahindra Comviva’s Mobiquity Wallet will soon be able to withdraw cash and top up their mobile wallets at the ATM using either host card emulation (HCE) based NFC or by scanning a QR code, allowing them to save time by preparing transactions on their phone before they get to the cash machine... More





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TI offers NFC sensors

Texas Instruments has introduced an integrated NFC sensor transponder that combines an ISO 15693 compliant NFC interface with a programmable microcontroller, non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter and SPI and I2C interface... More