A 29-page white paper that explores the payment industry of Bangladesh and includes a detailed examination of its current systems, the evolution of alternative payment methods and the uptake of NFC, tokenization and EMV is now available to download from the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre. More
Retail
French retail giant to support Fivory NFC mobile payments
Customers at supermarket giant Auchan Retail France stores will soon be able to pay for purchases on their mobile phone using NFC or QR codes through the Fivory mobile wallet. The retailer has teamed up with payment solutions provider Oney and MasterCard to support the service which was piloted by French bank Credit Mutuel-CIC in April 2014. More
One in four US smartphone owners use mobile payment apps
More than 25% of US smartphone owners make use of mobile payment apps at least once a month, research from Parks Associates reveals... More
Worldline to support Alipay in Germany
Payment processor Worldline is adding support for Alipay mobile payments in Germany... More
Retailers reward in-app Apple Pay purchases
US retailers are offering discounts on in-app purchases made through Apple Pay until September as part of a recently launched iOS App Store promotion... More
Facebook tests Messenger payments
US consumers are testing a new service that lets them send money through Facebook’s Messenger chat app... More
Jiffy signs up more than 350,000 users
More than 350,000 Italians have now registered to use Jiffy, the P2P payment service launched by payment processor SIA in October 2014... More
Walmart Pay adds another 14 states
US supermarket chain Walmart has rolled out its Walmart Pay mobile payment service to stores in another 14 US states, including California, New York, Pennsylvania, Idaho and New Mexico as well as states across New England and the Pacific North West... More
Nordic banks sign up to HCE mobile payments with Nets
Customers of banks belonging to Danish banking collective The Bokis Partnership will soon be able to make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments via a service that uses an HCE and tokenization platform from digital payment services provider Nets and Carta Worldwide. More
Walgreens enhances paperless coupon feature
Customers of US drugstore giant Walgreens can now redeem paperless coupons for online and in-store purchases and “clip” offers on product pages and in search results through the Walgreens mobile app... More
Luxury handbag maker uses NFC tags to counter fraud
Owners of a handbag from Maria&Donato’s exclusive collection will soon be able to authenticate their purchase as well as discover information about the brand and buy limited-edition handbags online with a tap of their NFC device. More
Kroger sues Visa over EMV authentication
US supermarket chain Kroger has filed a lawsuit against Visa for allowing customers to verify EMV purchases with a signature instead of a PIN... More
Android Pay launches in Singapore
Google has begun rolling out Android Pay across Singapore, marking the mobile payment service’s debut in Asia. It will work with MasterCard and Visa cards from DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, POSB Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and UOB. More
Vodafone Italia adds NFC mobile payments with PayPal
Customers of Vodafone Italia can now make NFC mobile payments through PayPal using the mobile network operator’s Vodafone Wallet. The service will allow for in-store payments at any Visa contactless terminal across the country. More
ACI reports on mobile payments usage by Indian millennials
More than two thirds of Indian millennials (67%) have purchased goods online and in-store using their mobile phone, research from ACI Worldwide reveals... More
OT works on mobile payments rollout in France
Oberthur Technologies (OT) is working with retail payment operator STET and Cartes Bancaires CB Group (GIE-CB), the regulatory body for the payment card system, to roll out mobile payment services in France... More
Amazon to expand Dash service despite “cool” response
Amazon is to announce that it is adding “dozens of new brands” to its Dash push-button ordering devices despite “evidence that consumers are cool to them”, The Wall Street Journal reports... More
Discover joins effort to speed up EMV checkout
Discover has unveiled Discover Quick Chip, a new option for merchants to streamline the checkout process when customers pay with cards... More
Walmart Pay arrives in 15 more states
US supermarket chain Walmart has launched Walmart Pay in 15 additional US states including Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington DC... More
Jiffy payments launches in-store in Milan and Bergamo
Italian consumers are now piloting in-store mobile payments using Jiffy, the person-to-person (P2P) payment service launched by payment processor SIA in October 2014. The service makes use of QR codes at the point of sale. More