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NFC payments


What's New in Payments

7-Eleven launches mobile wallet that customers can load with cash in stores

By Tom Phillips • 7 December 2020 • Updated 7 December 2020 • nfcw.com
7-Eleven app with mobile wallet on a smartphone

Customers in 7-Eleven convenience stores across the USA can now make contactless payments at the checkout using a mobile wallet that the retail giant has added to its 7-Eleven app... More


What's New in Payments

Antelop launches secure customer authentication SDK

By Sarah Clark • 3 December 2020 • Updated 3 December 2020 • nfcw.com
Antelop Solutions logo

PARTNER NEWS: Antelop Solutions has launched a new SDK that lets banks quickly and easily provide their customers with a way to use their mobile phone as a trusted, multi-factor authentication device that complies with strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements under PSD2... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay expands to 10 extra countries in Europe

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 13 September 2021 • nfcw.com
Google Pay logo

Google Pay has gone live in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal and Romania with support for Mastercard and Visa cards issued by participating banks and card issuers... More


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University of Tennessee reports on NFC campus ID adoption

By Tom Phillips • 27 October 2020 • Updated 16 September 2022 • nfcw.com
University of Tennessee NFC campus ID Mobile VolCard

Students and staff at the University of Tennessee in the US are now using mobile campus ID cards stored on their iPhone or Apple Watch to gain access to buildings and make on- and off-campus payments an average of 46,000 times a day, more than double the average six months ago... More


What's New in Payments

Visa lets merchants in 15 countries accept contactless payments on standard NFC phones

By Tom Phillips • 22 October 2020 • Updated 22 October 2020 • nfcw.com
Visa Tap to Phone contactless NFC transaction

Merchants in more than 15 countries around the world are now able to use Android NFC smartphones and tablets to accept contactless payments with no additional hardware required, Visa has announced... More


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Philippe Starck designs NFC payments ring

By Tom Phillips • 13 October 2020 • Updated 5 September 2022 • nfcw.com
Aeklys by-Starck smart ring nfc wearable

Iconic designer Philippe Starck has created a smart ring that can be used to store payment cards and transport passes, make contactless payments, and transfer business and ID information... More


What's New in Payments

IDC: One in two wearables to include contactless payments support

By Tom Phillips • 2 October 2020 • Updated 2 October 2020 • nfcw.com
International Data Corporation research company logo

Global shipments of wearable devices will reach a total of 396m units this year and increase to 637.1m in 2024, with the proportion of those offering support for contactless payments set to rise to nearly 50% by the end of the year, International Data Corp (IDC) predicts... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay rolls out tokenized NFC card payments in India

By Tom Phillips • 25 September 2020 • Updated 25 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay India NFC tokenized payments on a smartphone screens

Google Pay users in India can now make tokenized NFC-based credit and debit card payments at contactless POS terminals, starting with customers of Axis Bank and SBI “with Kotak and more banks expected to follow suit very soon”... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Bonn begins rollout of contactless NFC ticketing

By Tom Phillips • 17 September 2020 • Updated 17 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Bonnsmart contactless ticketing on a bus

Public transport users in Bonn, Germany, can now make contactless payments for their fares on two key transit routes in the city using their smartphone, smartwatch or contactless debit or credit card as part of a citywide rollout of open loop contactless ticketing... More


What's New in Payments

Google Pay tests NFC card payments in India

By Tom Phillips • 2 September 2020 • Updated 2 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Google Pay logo with NFC smartphone

Google Pay has begun testing tokenized NFC-based credit and debit card payments in India, enabling users of supported cards to add them to their payment options for NFC, QR and online payments... More


What's New in Payments

Giant Eagle installs checkout-free technology at GetGo Café+Market store

By Sarah Clark • 2 September 2020 • Updated 2 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Grabango self-checkout at Getgo Cafe

US supermarket chain Giant Eagle has installed checkout-free technology at a GetGo Café+Market store in the Greater Pittsburgh area, enabling customers to simply walk into the store, select the items they wish to purchase and checkout via their mobile phone... More


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GlobalPlatform releases secure customer authentication specification

By Sarah Clark • 2 September 2020 • Updated 2 September 2020 • nfcw.com
GlobalPlatform

GlobalPlatform has released a new specification designed to simplify the integration of strong customer authentication (SCA) for payments, banking, transport and identity applications... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Washington Metro lets passengers add SmarTrip transit cards to Apple Wallet

By Sarah Clark • 2 September 2020 • Updated 2 September 2020 • nfcw.com
Washington Metro Smartrip transit for Apple Wallet

Public transport users in Washington, DC, in the US can now add their SmarTrip card to their iPhone or Apple Watch, “giving transit customers a safer, faster, more convenient way to pay”... More


What's New in Payments

Kroger pilots NFC payments in QFC grocery stores

By Tom Phillips • 19 August 2020 • Updated 19 August 2020 • nfcw.com
Kroger NFC contactless payment smartphone app

Kroger, the US supermarket chain that has previously held out against the introduction of NFC payments, has begun piloting NFC-based contactless payments in 61 of its QFC grocery stores in Oregon and Washington states... More


What's New in Payments

Afterpay lets US consumers pay by instalments with their NFC mobile phone

By Sarah Clark • 14 July 2020 • Updated 14 July 2020 • nfcw.com
Afterpay app for NFC payments in instalments

Australia-based buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay is launching a service that lets US consumers make NFC payments in stores — and then pay for their purchases in four equal instalments... More


What's New in Payments

Australia records sharp increase in NFC mobile payments adoption

By Sarah Clark • 14 May 2020 • Updated 14 May 2020 • nfcw.com
Roy Morgan Australia use of contactless/cardless mobile payments: 2017-19 graph

A total of 10.8% of Australians are now using Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay, up from 7.1% a year ago, a new report from market researchers Roy Morgan has found... More


What's New in Payments

Berg Insight releases contactless POS terminal market stats

By Sarah Clark • 6 May 2020 • Updated 6 May 2020 • nfcw.com
Berg Insights bar graph showing installed base of NFC ready POS and mPOS terminals worldwide 2018-2024

Shipments of NFC-ready POS terminals reached 47.8m units globally in 2019, bringing the total to 100.4m worldwide, according to Berg Insight... More


NFC World

Fitbit Charge 4 launches with NFC contactless payments

By Mike Clark • 1 April 2020 • Updated 22 February 2023 • nfcw.com
Fitbit Charge 4 wearable with NFC contactless payments

The latest health and fitness tracker from Fitbit comes with contactless payments as standard... More


What's New in Payments

Brazil to launch national instant payments system

By Sarah Clark • 25 February 2020 • nfcw.com
Brazilian Instant Payment Scheme (PIX) logo

Brazil’s central bank will turn on a national instant payments network in November that will allow consumers to make payments and transfers “in a few seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including between accounts of different institutions” using QR codes, NFC, their mobile phone number, email address or taxpayer ID... More


NFC World

Apple leverages NFC to deliver exclusive rewards to Apple Watch gym users

By Mike Clark • 24 January 2020 • Updated 8 March 2023 • nfcw.com
Apple Watch Connected app with cycle tracking

Apple has introduced a new Apple Watch Connected gym program that provides users with exclusive rewards at gyms that make use of the wearable device’s NFC payments and tap-to-connect capabilities... More


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