Mobile payments specialist Seamless has appointed two industry veterans to assist in establishing its Seqr NFC and QR payments platform in the US... More
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Vivo picks Gemalto TSM
Brazilian mobile network operator Vivo has chosen Gemalto as its trusted service manager (TSM) for its NFC payments service in Brazil... More
SimplyTapp gets funding for HCE
SimplyTapp, the US startup which created Host Card Emulation, bypassing the need to use a carrier controlled SIM-based secure element in NFC transactions, has raised a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners... More
Positive reaction sees Hungarian mobile wallet ready for market
Eight out of ten testers of the Hungarian mobile wallet pilot project have found the service “very useful” prompting the Hungarian Mobile Wallet Association — an alliance between mobile network operators Magyar Telekom, Vodafone and Telenor with MasterCard, OTP Bank and SuperShop — to declare the MobilTarca wallet ready for market... More
SmarTone joins HK NFC service
SmarTone has become the latest Hong Kong carrier to participate in Hang Seng Bank’s NFC mobile payments service... More
Hong Kong banks agree NFC payment standards
The Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB) has issued Best Practice for NFC Mobile Payment in Hong Kong, a set of common standards and best practices that aims to help establish an interoperable, as well as safe and effective, NFC mobile payment infrastructure... More
OTI gets Isis POS approval
On Track Innovations’ range of Saturn NFC-enabled POS terminals have received certification from US carrier joint venture Isis for use with Isis Mobile Wallet... More
Isis Alliance Program to support merchant technology providers
US carrier joint venture Isis has introduced the Isis Alliance Program, an initiative designed to support “merchant technology ecosystem partners with exclusive tools and resources to capitalise on the opportunities created by mobile commerce.”... More
Pay and display goes NFC
Parking and transportation ticketing equipment supplier IEM is to bring NFC payments to an initial 1,000 solar powered ‘pay and display’ parking ticket machines in France, using UIC’s UIC680 low power payments module... More
UniCredit to offer NFC stickers
Russia’s UniCredit Bank is to offer customers contactless stickers that can be attached to their mobile phone to make payments... More
Hang Seng extends NFC reach
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Bank is expanding its NFC payments service to customers of mobile network operator CSL... More
Banks pick OTI for NFC payments in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
A cross border NFC payments service using On Track Innovations’ Wave NFC add-on device is to be offered by Hong Kong ATM network JetCo, which has thirty member banks, by Taiwan’s Trade-Van and by Macau’s MTel. More
i-Free expands mobile wallet to 11 Russian cities
Mobile technology developer i-Free is expanding its NFC mobile wallet service to enable users to store transportation cards for 11 Russian cities as well as a variety of prepaid deals and coupons... More
Telecom Italia and Visa Europe to roll out NFC payments in Italy
Italian carrier Telecom Italia and Visa Europe have signed a strategic agreement which will see NFC payments rolled out across Italy to more than 31 million customers of the TIM mobile network from 2014... More
Isis NFC mobile wallet goes live across the US
NFC payments are now available to AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless subscribers across the US, with the national launch of the Isis Mobile Wallet... More
McDonald’s to offer NFC and QR payments across Belgium
McDonald’s is to roll out NFC payments across all of its locations in Belgium in the spring of 2014 using Seamless’ Seqr mobile payments platform... More
Rabobank to launch NFC payments in the Netherlands
Dutch bank Rabobank is set to commercially launch an NFC mobile payments service in the Netherlands next year... More
Orange picks Wirecard for NFC
Orange France is using technology from Wirecard to support the launch of its prepaid Orange Cash NFC payments service... More
Orange to launch prepaid NFC payments across France
Mobile network operator Orange is to roll out a national NFC payments service in France next year under the Orange Cash brand name, enabling NFC phone owners to use a prepaid card stored on their handset to pay for goods at Visa PayWave contactless terminals... More
Tappr gets $2m for NFC payments
Australian startup Tappr has raised A$2m in seed funding for an NFC payments service that is due to launch in early 2014... More