US retailer-led consortium MCX has postponed the nationwide rollout of its CurrentC mobile wallet and has laid off approximately 30 of its employees... More
MCX delays launch of CurrentC and cuts 30 jobs
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Tokenization case study — See the webinar now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘Case study — Lessons learned from selecting and implementing a tokenization solution able to serve 200 banks’ webinar is now available to view online... More
Disney cancels Infinity NFC game
Disney has discontinued production of Disney Infinity, the NFC figurine based multi-platform video game that began shipping in August 2013... More
Singtel Dash mobile payments service adds NFC transit
Singapore mobile network operator Singtel has made NFC transport payments and top-ups available through its Singtel Dash mobile payments platform. Deals and rewards have also been added as well as overseas money transfers. More
Interac TSP supports Apple Pay in Canada
PARTNER NEWS: Canadian national debit network Interac is using its Interac Token Service Provider (TSP) platform to support Apple Pay transactions made using its debit cards in Canada... More
Gemalto and Visa roll out contactless payment wristbands at Eurovision
PARTNER NEWS: Visitors to the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Stockholm, Sweden, this month will be able to purchase contactless payment wristbands that will enable payments at any Visa contactless terminal in the world. The wristbands, which will be active until the end of October, will be rolled out by Visa and digital security giant Gemalto. More
UK businesses to get payment service via Pingit and Paym
UK businesses using digital banking solutions provider Bottomline Technologies’ C-Series payments processing module will soon be able to send payments to recipients using only their mobile phone number through the Barclays’ Pingit mobile app or the Paym mobile payment platform, which is also supported by Barclays... More
State Bank of India goes live with mVisa
Customers of State Bank of India (SBI) can now make QR code-based mobile payments using mVisa, the mobile payment platform unveiled by Visa and piloted by SBI in August 2015... More
Proxama and Mapway launch BLE beacon service on London buses
PARTNER NEWS: Commuters on some 500 Transport for London (TfL) buses can now receive real-time travel updates and relevant location-based advertising using transport app developer Mapway’s Bus Times London app. More
Corporate drivers to get mobile payments at the pump
Drivers of corporate fleet vehicles will soon be able to pay for fuel using a mobile payment service that identifies the site and pump using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and authenticates the vehicle using NFC. More
SumUp and Payleven merge
UK mobile payment companies SumUp and Payleven have announced that they are to merge and operate as one company under the SumUp name... More
PayPal CEO announces NFC payments expansion
Vodafone Wallet with PayPal NFC-enabled payments is now live in Spain and is expected to be made available across Europe throughout the “back half of 2016”, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman revealed during the company’s Q1 earnings call. More
Tangerine adds biometrics to mobile banking app
Customers of Canada’s Tangerine Bank can now log into its mobile banking app for iOS by authenticating themselves with their iris or voice... More
Tutuka to roll out cloud-based payments with Proxama
PARTNER NEWS: Prepaid card processor Tutuka has begun the implementation of digital payment solutions provider Proxama’s Digital Enablement Platform (DEP) for a fully independent cloud-based payment (CBP) solution in the Middle East, Asia and Africa... More
UK restaurants and bars roll out Z-Beacon technology
More than 1,000 restaurants, bars and pubs across the UK are deploying Z-Beacon, a new platform developed by QR code-based mobile payments provider Zapper... More
Micromax to launch NFC mobile payments with TranServ and Visa
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
Gemalto and Worldline simplify onboarding to OEM mobile wallets for banks and card issuers
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto is working alongside European payment and transactional services provider Wordline to enable the “seamless onboarding” of banks and card issuers to mobile payment wallets provided by device manufacturers... More
US pilot for real-time payments system
Financial services provider FIS and banking association The Clearing House (TCH) are to pilot a real-time payments system with financial institutions in the US in the first quarter of 2017, with an initial focus on bill payments... More
Wearable smart stamp to support NFC payments
Healthcare technology provider MC10 and product solutions provider PCH are to commercialise MC10’s Wearable Interactive Stamp Platform (WiSP), an ultrathin, stretchable and disposable stamp worn on the skin that will enable brands to develop a “variety of consumer applications” including NFC payments. More
WeChat integrates with Givex to push in-store presence
Chinese ecommerce giant Tencent’s WeChat mobile payments and messaging app has been integrated with Givex’s Vexilor point-of-sale solution to enable users of the service to make in-store purchases by scanning a QR code. More