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NFC payments coming to Android Wear 2.0?

By Rian Boden • 22 November 2016 • nfcw.com

A Google Play Services v10.0 APK teardown conducted by Android Police has revealed Google may be adding support for NFC payments through Android Pay to its Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch update... More


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Samsung Pay opens pairing for Gear S3 smartwatch

By Rian Boden • 22 November 2016 • nfcw.com

Samsung Pay will be supported on Samsung’s Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier smartwatches without having to be paired with a Samsung smartphone... More


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Optus adds smart coffee cup to contactless payments range

By Rian Boden • 21 November 2016 • nfcw.com
SmartCup from Optus

Australian mobile network operator Optus has updated its range of contactless payment accessories to include a SmartCup — a coffee cup that includes the new Optus Pay PayTag in its base allowing consumers to make contactless payments up to US$100 at any payment terminal that accepts Visa PayWave... More


Mobile payments and IoT trends for smartwatches

By Christopher Brown • 4 November 2016 • Updated 16 August 2019 • nfcw.com

Internet of things, monitoring for insurance and mobile wallet expansion are three of the key emerging smartwatch app trends found in research by Parks Associates... More


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FNB launches NFC mobile payments

By Rian Boden • 10 October 2016 • nfcw.com

Customers of First National Bank (FNB) can now make NFC mobile payments using the latest version of the financial institution’s mobile banking app... More


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Gear S3 smartwatch comes with Samsung Pay

By Rian Boden • 1 September 2016 • Updated 1 September 2016 • nfcw.com

Samsung has unveiled its latest smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S3, which includes support for Samsung Pay... More


What's New in Payments

Samsung Pay Beta goes live on Gear S2

By Rian Boden • 19 July 2016 • nfcw.com

An update to the Samsung Gear app is adding access to Samsung Pay for the Gear S2 smartwatch... More


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Mobvoi to add NFC payments to smartwatches in China

By Rian Boden • 6 June 2016 • Updated 21 January 2019 • nfcw.com

Owners of Mobvoi’s Ticwatch will soon be able to make NFC payments at contactless terminals across China as the result of a partnership between the smartwatch maker, China UnionPay (CUP) and Oberthur Technologies (OT). More


Swatch to focus on mass market smartwatches

By Rian Boden • 18 March 2016 • Updated 16 August 2019 • nfcw.com

Luxury watchmaker Swatch will focus its smartwatch activities on its plastic Swatch brand before considering the technology for its pricier models... More


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Mondaine to add NFC payments to a range of luxury watches

By Rian Boden • 19 February 2016 • Updated 21 January 2019 • nfcw.com
Mondaine smartwatch

Swiss luxury watchmaker Mondaine is to add NFC payment capability to a variety of its watches, starting with its Mondaine Helvetica No1 smartwatch, that will let wearers make payments with a tap of their wrist at any contactless enabled terminal. More


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FitPay launches Kickstarter campaign to bring NFC smartstrap to market

By Rian Boden • 9 February 2016 • Updated 21 January 2019 • nfcw.com
Fitpay Pagare

Wearable payments company FitPay has launched a campaign on Kickstarter to crowdfund the production of an NFC payment smartstrap for the Pebble Time family of smartwatches. More


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FitPay closes $3.1m round led by G&D

By Rian Boden • 5 February 2016 • nfcw.com

Wearable payments provider FitPay has closed a US$3.1m seed funding round led by Giesecke & Devrient (G&D)... More


Samsung looks into vein authentication

By Rian Boden • 5 February 2016 • Updated 5 February 2019 • nfcw.com

A patent filed by Samsung describes how a sensor on a smartwatch or other wearable device could authenticate identity by reading the user’s vein structure... More


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Swatch and Visa to take Bellamy smartwatch to Rio Olympics

By Rian Boden • 25 January 2016 • Updated 25 January 2016 • nfcw.com

Visitors to this summer’s Rio 2016 Olympics will be able to use luxury watchmaker Swatch’s Bellamy NFC smartwatch to pay for event passes, according to the Financial Times... More


CaixaBank launches mobile-only bank

By Rian Boden • 14 January 2016 • Updated 27 January 2019 • nfcw.com

Spain’s CaixaBank has launched a mobile-only bank to provide banking services through mobile apps and social networks... More


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MasterCard and Coin take NFC payments to wearable devices

By Rian Boden • 6 January 2016 • Updated 6 January 2016 • nfcw.com
Omate Watch

Connected device maker Coin has partnered with MasterCard to enable NFC payments on a range of fitness bands, smartwatches and other wearable devices. Fitness wearable designers Atlas Wearables and Moov and smartwatch provider Omate are the first to implement the NFC payments technology into their products.  More


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Samsung Pay heads to Australia, Brazil and Singapore

By Rian Boden • 6 January 2016 • nfcw.com
Samsung Pay

Samsung is to launch its Samsung Pay mobile payment service in Australia, Brazil and Singapore, the company’s Tim Baxter has announced during a keynote at the CES show in Las Vegas. The service will also be available on the Samsung Gear S2 classic smartwatch from early this year, starting in the US. More


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Four in ten US consumers have made a mobile payment

By Rian Boden • 17 December 2015 • Updated 17 December 2015 • nfcw.com
Retale

43% of US consumers have used a mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet or smartwatch to make an in-store purchase, up from 36% last year, research from location-based mobile platform Retale shows... More


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Samsung Pay delays on Gear S2

By Rian Boden • 8 December 2015 • nfcw.com

Samsung Pay will not be made available on the Gear S2 smartwatch until 2016, despite reports that it would be going live on the device from November 2015... More


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Half of UK shoppers think wearable payments will be commonplace within five years

By Rian Boden • 30 November 2015 • nfcw.com
Vista

More than half of UK shoppers (51%) believe that wearable devices including smartwatches, wristbands, fobs, stickers and smart clothing will be commonplace for in-store payments within two to five years, a survey by Vista Retail Support reveals... More


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