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
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Samsung Pay to launch in Singapore in Q2 this year
Samsung Pay will launch in Singapore in the second quarter of this year, the company has announced, adding it to South Korea, the US and China on the list of Samsung’s “priority markets”... More
Nets to launch HCE mobile payments in Denmark
Nordic payments service provider Nets is to launch a mobile payment service in Denmark in autumn 2016 that will use host card emulation (HCE) technology from Japanese card issuer JCB, the two companies have announced. 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
Google unveils Nexus live cases with NFC
Google has unveiled a series of phone cases that interact with Nexus phones using NFC and enable users to customize their home screen with an animated wallpaper. More
Nationwide explores behavioural biometrics
Customers of Nationwide Building Society in the UK may soon be able to access their mobile banking accounts using behavioural biometrics that recognise how they interact with their smartphone, from the way they hold their device to how they type... More
Adobe prototype store uses RFID shopping bags
Shoppers at Adobe’s prototype “store of the future” in Las Vegas are being given RFID chip-enabled shopping bags that allow them to purchase items simply by putting the bags on a checkout counter... More
Ingenico buys Think&Go
POS terminal maker Ingenico has acquired NFC specialist Think&Go... More
NFC payments to reach $95bn by 2018
The global value of NFC mobile and wearable payments is expected to reach US$95bn annually by 2018, up from less than $35bn last year, according to Juniper Research... More
Priorbank launches HCE payments in Belarus
Customers of Priorbank in Belarus can now make mobile payments using a new HCE service that supports MasterCard and will be extended to include Visa cards later this year... More
Swiss banks and retailers to launch joint mobile payments solution
The five largest banks in Switzerland are in talks with financial infrastructure operator SIX and retail giants Coop and Migros over the launch of a common solution for mobile payments “across all channels” that can be “rapidly spread” across the country. More
Meet NFC World’s partners at Money20/20 Europe
NFC World partners Proxama, Giesecke & Devrient, Gemalto, Carta Worldwide and Bell ID will be exhibiting at the Money20/20 Europe expo in Copenhagen from April 4-7. More
Consortium to develop NFC packaging across UK supply chain
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has formed a specialist consortium to create a UK manufacturing supply chain that will support the widespread adoption of NFC packaging. More
Australian shoppers get contactless donations
Consumers in major shopping centres across Australia can now donate to veteran support group Walking Wounded by tapping a contactless card against advertising screens that have been activated for payment by out of home media provider oOh!media. More
Singapore commuters get NFC payments
Customers of mobile network operators M1, Singtel and StarHub can now pay for journeys on public transport services in Singapore with a tap of their NFC device as a result of a partnership between the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and transport card issuer EZ-Link. More
A third of Americans unconvinced about mobile payment apps
More than one third of Americans (36%) don’t feel a need for mobile payment apps, compared to 12% of Mexicans and 13% of Chileans, according to mobile banking service Fintonic... More
Proxama makes the case for digital PIN delivery
A white paper that examines the advantages of using new, digital PIN delivery mechanisms to replace traditional PIN mailers is now available to download from the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre. More
BMO to offer ‘selfie pay’ biometric verification technology to customers
Canadian financial services provider BMO Financial Group is to enable its customers to use MasterCard’s Identity Check mobile app to verify their online transactions via face recognition and fingerprint biometrics... More
Apple Pay to expand to mobile websites?
Apple Pay will be available as a payment option on mobile websites “before this year’s holiday shopping season”, Re/code reports... More
Sberbank enables cardless cash withdrawals in Kazakhstan
Customers of Sberbank Kazakhstan can now withdraw cash without a card at any of the 900 Sberbank ATMs across the country that have been integrated with OpenWay’s Way4 Cash technology... More