Giesecke & Devrient has announced that its new Taurus NFC SIMs are being used by Italian MVNO Nòverca for financial institution Intesa Sanpaolo’s NFC pilot in Milan and Turin... More
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Polish banks expand NFC trial
Poland’s MultiBank and mBank have begun the second phase of their NFC pilot, opening up the trial to consumers for the first time by providing competition winners with an iCarte accessory they can attach to their iPhone to make mobile payments... More
MasterCard delivers popcorn to movie-goers with NFC
Two movie theatres in Sydney, Australia are pilot testing QkR, a mobile app that lets customers place orders on their smartphone via NFC or QR codes and then have their order delivered to their seat. More
Spanish students to register for classes with NFC
Samsung has signed a deal with a Spanish university to develop and pilot test the use of NFC phones to track student attendance. More
Sunrise to test NFC in Switzerland
Swiss mobile network operator Sunrise is to begin an NFC payments pilot in March 2012, in collaboration with Oberthur Technologies... More
DeviceFidelity begins shipping NFC microSDs direct to consumers
US iPhone users can now order a case containing an NFC microSD card online and use it to make payments with their mobile phone. An Android version will be added during the second quarter of 2012 and there are plans to make the technology available internationally from the end of the year. More
PayPal expands in-store
Online payments giant PayPal has signed a deal with Ingenico that will see its mobile payments technology integrated into the POS terminal maker’s new and legacy contactless acceptance devices... More
BNP rolls out NFC in Strasbourg
French banking group BNP Paribas is expanding availability of its Kix NFC mobile payment application to Strasbourg... More
Intesa Sanpaolo begins NFC trial in Italy
The Italian financial institution’s new “Move and Pay” NFC payments service is being provided in conjunction with mobile service provider Noverca, in which Intesa is a shareholder. More
Home Depot tests PayPal in-store
Home Depot has become the first US retailer to test PayPal’s mobile payments solutions in-store... More
PayPal tests NFC payments in Stockholm
“Over the next few months we’ll be testing many different proximity payments technologies (including NFC) and exploring numerous partnership opportunities,” says the online payments giant. More
Chevron to test Google Wallet
Six hundred Chevron gas stations in the US are to begin accepting Google Wallet payments and will “send out signage and other point-of-purchase (POP) material to stations before year’s end,” CSP Daily News reports... More
NFC shopping zone opens in Seoul
Korea’s leading mobile network operators, card networks, phone manufacturers and government agencies have joined forces to provide shoppers in Seoul’s busiest shopping district with a wide range of NFC services including payments, couponing, smart posters and digital receipts. More
Woolworths goes contactless
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is set to roll out 30,000 contactless payment terminals across more than 3,000 stores in 2012... More
Absa begins South Africa’s first NFC pilot
The trial will see five hundred bank staff using BlackBerry NFC smartphones to make MasterCard PayPass payments, and the technology used will in future also support the country’s national transportation ticketing technology. More
Coles to go contactless
Australian grocery giant Coles is to upgrade its Ingenico point-of-sale terminals to support contactless payments, CNet Australia reports... More
Telefonica begins BlackBerry NFC trial
“We look forward to seeing the launch of commercial wallet services in several markets next year,” says the CEO of Telefónica Digital. More
Bank of New Zealand tests NFC
BNZ and Vodafone have begun a three month NFC payments pilot in New Zealand... More
Visa tests iPhone NFC in Poland
The payments network has partnered with BRE Bank’s mBank and MultiBank divisions to test the use of Apple iPhones equipped with an iCarte NFC accessory. More
Visa vending goes contactless
Visa Europe is moving to contactless payments for the vending machines in its UK offices after a six month trial conducted with vending specialist Vianet in which a dozen machines recorded more than 10,000 contactless transactions... More