Sports fans attending this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament can purchase a QR refill pass that gives them the ability to refill their water bottle at any of a number of Evian mineral water refill stations located around the All England Lawn Tennis Club, rather than buying their mineral water in a plastic bottle or using a free tap water refill station... More
More than 80% of the respondents to a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of the NFC Forum said they have used a smartphone or smartwatch to make a contactless payment... More
Singapore and Malaysia are to start using QR codes instead of passports at their land border, to speed up clearance of travellers at checkpoints. More
Google Wallet can now display airline boarding passes as QR codes on Wear OS smartwatches... More
Consumers in Korea can now make cash withdrawals and deposits at ATMs by scanning a QR code with their Apple or Android smartphone rather than needing to use a physical bank card... More
French brand Bastille Parfums has added RFID tags and QR codes to bottles of its luxury perfumes to enhance supply chain traceability, product tracking, fraud prevention and customer engagement by linking individual products to a unique cloud-based digital twin... More
Bangalore-based food delivery service Swiggy Instamart in India has launched a promotional drinks coaster equipped with NFC and a QR code that enables consumers to access a selection of snacks and beverages by tapping or scanning it with their mobile device... More
Residents of the US state of Iowa can now generate and store a digital version of their driving licence or state ID card on their Apple or Android smartphone and use it to verify their identity and/or age at selected businesses across the state... More
Total transaction values for contactless transit fare payments made using a QR code will almost triple and reach US$17.7bn worldwide by 2028, according to a forecast by Juniper Research... More
Residents of Arizona, Colorado and Georgia in the US can now add digital versions of their state-issued identity card and driving licence to Google Wallet on their Android NFC smartphone and use it to verify their identity at select Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints... More
The Czech government has passed an amendment to the country’s legislation on the Right to Digital Services that will enable citizens of the Czech Republic to store and use a digital version of their national identity card in a wallet on their smartphone... More
Users of selected Samsung Galaxy foldable smartphones including the Galaxy Z Flip 5 can now customise their phone screen with an NFC-enabled insert that enables them to coordinate the on-screen design with accessories in Samsung’s Eco-Friends range... More
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has unveiled a suite of United Payments Interface (UPI) services that includes UPI Tap & Pay NFC-enabled QR codes, QR code-enabled ATM withdrawals, the addition of support for offline NFC payments to the UPI Lite X digital wallet, and Hello... More
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a report that highlights how Apple and Google’s role in enabling NFC contactless mobile payments impacts the US contactless payments market... More
Passengers travelling on Victoria Regional Transit System services in the Canadian province of British Columbia can now opt to pay their fares using a pre-loaded contactless card or by scanning a dynamic QR code stored in a dedicated app on their Apple or Android smartphone... More
Residents of the US state of California can now generate and store a digital version of their driving licence or state ID card on their Apple or Android smartphone and use it to verify their identity at selected Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport security checkpoints and confirm their age when making age-restricted purchases in selected stores... More
Residents of India with a Galaxy smartphone can now add digital versions of identity documents including their Aadhaar identity card, PAN tax registration card, driving licence and vehicle registration certificate to Samsung Wallet and use them to verify their identity across multiple use cases... More
A new concept dubbed the ‘Instant Payment Card’ could hold the answer to successfully introducing a pan-European instant payments system, Alain Martin, president of the Smart Payment Association, explains in a new presentation for NFCW’s Contactless World Congress online events series... More
Google is adding QR payments to Google Wallet and users in Brazil will be the first in the world to use their Google Wallet to make mobile payments with QR codes, Google VP and country director for Brazil Fabio Coelho has revealed... More
Residents and visitors to Seoul can now use a digital ID service introduced by Lotte Duty Free to buy duty free goods at the retailer’s downtown stores in South Korea’s capital without needing to take their passport with them to prove their identity... More