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What's New in Payments

Tencent and Ant to integrate digital yuan wallets into mobile banking apps

By Tom Phillips • 25 February 2021 • Updated 25 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Tencent-backed WeBank and Ant-backed MyBank are conducting “preliminary work under the guidance of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)” in order to integrate the digital yuan wallet into their payment and banking services, according to a China Securities report... More


What's New in Payments

American Express adds support for digital receipts

By Tom Phillips • 22 February 2021 • Updated 22 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Amex American Express logo

American Express cardholders can now receive detailed digital receipts for their card transactions to identify and check their purchases from larger retailers via the company’s app or website... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Ottawa tests tap-to-pay contactless ticketing on light rail network

By Tom Phillips • 22 February 2021 • Updated 22 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Ottawa contactless ticketing on light rail network

Passengers travelling from Ottawa’s Rideau Station can now purchase single-ride adult fares on the Canadian capital’s light rail transit network by tapping to pay with their credit card or mobile wallet at a pilot touchless entry gate... More


What's New in Payments

UBS forecasts widespread adoption of biometric payment cards

By Tom Phillips • 22 February 2021 • Updated 22 February 2021 • nfcw.com
UBS logo

Biometric payment cards containing a built-in fingerprint sensor could generate more than US$5bn in global banking revenue and account for 15% of the market by 2026, according to a forecast by analysts at Swiss bank UBS... More


What's New in Payments

Postal Savings Bank of China trials biometric cards for digital currency payments

By Tom Phillips • 17 February 2021 • Updated 17 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Postal Bank of China sign

Chinese consumers taking part in the large-scale testing of the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Beijing over the Chinese New Year period are trialling a biometric ‘hard wallet’ card developed by the Postal Savings Bank of China... More


Estonia partners with World Health Organization for digital vaccine passport pilot

By Tom Phillips • 15 February 2021 • Updated 15 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Covid-19 vaccine for digital vaccine passport pilot

Estonia is to test digital vaccine passports that will enable residents to prove they have been inoculated against Covid-19 as part of a project to create a globally recognised electronic certification programme... More


What's New in Payments

Japanese convenience store trials face and palm biometrics for checkout-free shopping

By Tom Phillips • 12 February 2021 • Updated 12 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Japanese convenience store trialling checkout-free shopping with face and palm biometrics

The Green Leaves+ shop-and-go store in the Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel in Japan is piloting a biometrics-enabled checkout-free service that allows customers to enter the store by verifying their identity with just their face and a swipe of their palm... More


What's New in Payments

Kroger to pilot self-checkout only grocery store in Dallas

By Tom Phillips • 3 February 2021 • Updated 3 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Kroger grocery shop front

US supermarket chain Kroger is to pilot its first all self-checkout grocery store in Dallas, Texas, enabling customers to scan and pay for their purchases without needing to go through a cashier-staffed checkout lane... More


What's New in Payments

Survey: Eight in ten central banks are now actively engaged in digital currency projects

By Tom Phillips • 1 February 2021 • Updated 1 February 2021 • nfcw.com
BIS global banking digital currency activity graph

More than four-fifths of the world’s central banks (86%) are engaged in “some form of work” on a central bank digital currency (CBDC), up from “about one third” in 2019, according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey... More


What's New in Payments

Chinese banks launch mobile wallets that let customers transact in digital yuan

By Tom Phillips • 27 January 2021 • Updated 27 January 2021 • nfcw.com
China's digital yuan on a smartphone

At least eight major banks, including Hong Kong-based China CITIC Bank, have now introduced or are in the process of introducing digital wallets that support China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to local media reports... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Seoul light rail system trials face recognition ticketing

By Tom Phillips • 25 January 2021 • Updated 25 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Seoul Metro T-Money face recognition payment at a light railway gate

Employees travelling on Seoul Metro’s Ui-Sinseol light rapid transit line in South Korea are testing a face recognition payment system that enables passengers to pay their fares without needing to tap a smartphone or card or remove their face mask... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC to launch third digital yuan trial in Shenzhen

By Tom Phillips • 25 January 2021 • Updated 25 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is to follow its pilots of NFC-based contactless digital currency payments with the distribution of a further 20m digital yuan (US$3.1m) in a third ‘red envelope’ lottery to be held in the city of Shenzhen... More


What's New in Payments

China unveils plan to build a global payment network based on central bank digital currencies

By Tom Phillips • 20 January 2021 • Updated 20 January 2021 • nfcw.com
China's BSN global payment network ecosystem diagram based on central bank digital currencies

China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) has revealed plans to develop a universal digital payments network (UDPN) based on standardised procedures for international transfers and payments with and between central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)... More


NFC World

Vaccine credentials coalition to develop interoperable digital Covid-19 passport

By Tom Phillips • 18 January 2021 • Updated 4 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Vaccine credentials coalition digital smart health cards spec for Covid-19 passport

A coalition of technology and healthcare providers in the US has launched an initiative to develop a solution that will enable individuals to store and access their Covid-19 vaccination records in their digital wallet “in a secure, verifiable and privacy preserving way”... More


NFC World

UK to trial digital Covid-19 immunity and vaccination passports

By Tom Phillips • 13 January 2021 • Updated 13 January 2021 • nfcw.com
iProov and Mvine covid-19 passport app for NHS

UK residents are to take part in a pilot of a digital immunity and vaccination passport that enables them to use their mobile phone to disclose their Covid-19 test results or vaccination status without revealing their identity... More


What's New in Payments

Agricultural Bank of China pilots central bank digital currency ATMs

By Tom Phillips • 12 January 2021 • Updated 12 January 2021 • nfcw.com
People's Bank of China digital currency on smartphone screen

The Agricultural Bank of China has launched pilot ATMs that enable customers in Shenzhen to deposit and withdraw money in the form of digital yuan, the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC pilots contactless cards and wearables that let consumers make payments with China’s digital currency

By Tom Phillips • 8 January 2021 • Updated 8 January 2021 • nfcw.com
PBOC contactless card showing China's digital currency

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has expanded its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot to include a contactless ‘hard wallet’ and NFC wearables that enable consumers to make in-store and transit fare payments with their digital yuan... More


NFC World

Case study: Collectible coin grading service combats counterfeiting with HID Trusted NFC tags

By Tom Phillips • 7 January 2021 • Updated 7 January 2021 • nfcw.com

KNOWLEDGE CENTRE: Collectible coin grading company Collectors Universe is deploying two million NFC tags to enable collectors and dealers to authenticate rare and valuable coins and banknotes... More


NFC World

Seed potato supplier pilots NFC smart bags

By Tom Phillips • 5 January 2021 • Updated 5 January 2021 • nfcw.com
HZPC smart NFC bag for seed potatoes

Netherlands-based seed potato supplier HZPC is piloting smart delivery bags that use an integrated NFC chip to enable customers to download information about the potatoes a bag contains with a tap of their smartphone... More


What's New in Payments

ABI forecasts 2.5m biometric payment cards in 2021

By Tom Phillips • 18 December 2020 • Updated 18 December 2020 • nfcw.com
ABI Research logo

As many as 2.5m biometric payment cards will be issued during 2021, according to an ABI Research forecast, with more than 20 biometric payment card pilots already underway across the globe... More


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