The global smart packaging market is expected to reach US$26.7bn by 2024, according to a new report from market research firm Grand View Research... More
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Samsung Pay boss reveals plans for ‘more aggressive expansion’
Samsung Pay is planning “more and more aggressive expansion”, global general manager Thomas Ko has told NFC World in an exclusive interview at Money2020 in Las Vegas, as it emerged a new Deals feature will go live next month and the mobile payments service will operate in Malaysia and Thailand by the end of the year... More
UK supermarket chain trials NFC digital receipts
British supermarket chain Tesco is trialling a digital receipt service which will instantly send via email an electronic record of purchases to customers using a unique NFC sticker linked to an app on their smartphones... More
Visa opens up its tokenization platform to third-party suppliers
Visa is allowing third-party partners to offer its Visa Token Service (VTS) platform, allowing device manufacturers, issuers, internet of things developers, wallet providers, merchants and others to offer its digital payment service on any device... More
Apple Pay goes live in Japan
Apple Pay is now live in Japan, enabling local iPhone and Apple Watch users to make payments in stores and on public transportation services that support the widely used Sony FeliCa-based Japanese NFC payments system... More
PayPal talks up in-store mobile payments and One Touch adoption
In-store mobile payments have experienced a “long and difficult road” but the functionality is now starting to resonate with consumers, PayPal’s EVP and chief operating officer Bill Ready has told attendees during a keynote at Money20/20... More
Mastercard adds online Masterpass payments to Android Pay, Samsung Pay and Microsoft Wallet
Mastercard has signed deals with Google, Samsung and Microsoft to allow its customers that use Android Pay, Samsung Pay or Microsoft Wallet to shop online wherever Masterpass is accepted, while Google has announced a similar deal with Visa to offer the same functionality to Android Pay users via Visa Checkout... More
Pizza Hut offers NFC tattoos that let customers order favourite takeaway
Pizza Hut in the UK has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first pizza-ordering tattoo... More
French electronic wallets merge to create ‘universal mobile payment solution’
French bank BNP Paribas and supermarket giant Carrefour are to merge their Wa... More
Rambus Bell ID launches Token Gateway to ease bank integration with multiple TSPs
PARTNER NEWS: Rambus Bell ID has launched a software platform that card issuers can use to integrate with multiple third-party token service providers (TSPs) such as those operated by international and domestic payment schemes... More
Orange Cash extends to French teens
Orange is extending its Orange Cash NFC-based mobile payment service to teenagers in France, enabling those aged up to 18 to use the service with their parents in charge... More
Evry to offer NFC and HCE mobile payments with G&D
PARTNER NEWS: Norwegian financial services provider Evry is licensing Giesecke & Devrient’s (G&D) Convego CloudPay mobile payment solution to make NFC and host card emulation (HCE) mobile payment services available to its banking customers across the Nordic region... More
Apple targets cashless society
Apple is planning to “pour further resources” into Apple Pay in Japan and across other Asian markets in an attempt to promote a cashless society... More
Australian banks call Apple’s NFC restriction “completely baseless”
Apple’s claim that allowing access to the NFC technology within its iPhones would diminish the security of Apple Pay has been branded “completely baseless” by a group of four Australian banks, who are seeking greater powers of negotiation over the entry of third-party mobile wallets in the country... More
Beyond OEM Pay webinar — See it now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘Beyond OEM Pay: Mobile payment strategies for banks’ webinar is now available to view online... More
NXP sees soar in activation rates for NFC transit in China
PARTNER NEWS: Activation rates for the NFC mobile transit solution introduced by NXP and handset manufacturer Xiaomi in China have grown more than 15% in Shanghai and over 20% in Shenzhen since services on the Mi 5 smartphone launched in June 2016... More
Seqr adds NFC payments in UK
UK consumers using Seamless’ Seqr mobile payment platform can now add their bank account to the app and make NFC mobile purchases at any contactless terminal... More
Chase to support Microsoft Wallet next year
US bank Chase is to begin supporting Microsoft Wallet “next year” according to a tweet from Chase Support... More
UK consumers keen on NFC mobile payments
A quarter of UK consumers are making NFC mobile purchases or would like to do so in the future, research by Mastercard reveals, with the figure increasing to 45% for those aged 25 to 34... More