Workers in Broadgate’s 100 Liverpool Street office building in the City of London can now add their employee badge to Apple Wallet and use it to gain access to their workplace and shared amenities with a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch... More
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US HVAC company adds NFC to gas furnaces to ease installation and servicing
US-based heating, ventilation and air-conditioning solutions provider Carrier has incorporated NFC into its latest generation of gas furnaces for residential central heating systems to enable technicians to modify installation settings and access diagnostic information on an NFC smartphone or tablet... More
New softPOS app makes it possible for charities to let volunteers collect donations on standard Android smartphones
Charities in the UK can now make it possible for any of their volunteers to collect donations on their behalf by simply downloading a softPOS app onto their Android NFC smartphone... More
Iowa lets residents store their digital driving licence and state ID on their smartphone
Residents of the US state of Iowa can now generate and store a digital version of their driving licence or state ID card on their Apple or Android smartphone and use it to verify their identity and/or age at selected businesses across the state... More
Singapore pilots next generation QR mobile payments service
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is testing an upgraded version of its SGQR unified QR payment code that will enable merchants to accept QR code payments made using a wider range of local and cross-border payment schemes through a single financial institution rather than having to maintain commercial relationships with individual payment scheme providers... More
Apple extends Tap to Pay on iPhone to Ukraine
Merchants in Ukraine can now use their Apple iPhone to accept contactless payments without needing any additional hardware... More
Tennessee Titans trial contactless biometric ticketing for football games
Fans of the Tennessee Titans National Football League (NFL) team in the US can now sign up to test a contactless biometric ticketing system that enables them and up to 12 additional guests to gain access to American football games at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium with their face... More
Hong Kong Monetary Authority identifies three use cases where CBDCs can add unique value to payments
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has completed the first phase of Project e-HKD to develop a digital Hong Kong dollar and in the process has identified three use cases where the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could facilitate faster, more cost-effective and inclusive payments and enable new types of economic transactions... More
ST sets out the benefits of NFC in healthcare and wellness applications
KNOWLEDGE CENTRE: A new white paper by STMicroelectronics that explains how suppliers of healthcare and wellness devices can use NFC technology to implement convenient and easy-to-use real-time patient monitoring, fitness tracking and medical product supply chain applications is now available to download from the NFCW Knowledge Centre... More
IATA completes first end-to-end contactless passenger journey
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has successfully tested an end-to-end digital ID proof-of-concept (PoC) that enables air travellers to use biometric digital credentials to verify their identity at every stage of their journey – from purchasing a ticket to arriving at their destination... More
Google Wallet users can now make contactless fare payments in more than 500 cities worldwide
The number of cities worldwide where Google Wallet users can now store digital transit tickets or make open loop or closed loop contactless fare payments with a credit, debit or prepaid transit card stored on their Android device has topped 500, Google has revealed in a blog post... More
QR code transit ticketing transaction values to hit US$17.7bn globally by 2028
Total transaction values for contactless transit fare payments made using a QR code will almost triple and reach US$17.7bn worldwide by 2028, according to a forecast by Juniper Research... More
Ford files patent for contactless vehicle access card with integrated e-ink display
Vehicle manufacturing giant Ford has filed a patent application for a contactless vehicle access card with an integrated display that would use RFID or NFC to enable users both to unlock and start their vehicle and to also receive updated information about its status, location and other features... More
Australian university tests central bank digital currency for cash disbursements in emergency situations
The Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) has completed an eight-week pilot programme with Southern Cross University in New South Wales that has shown how organisations such as universities could provide immediate financial support using a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in emergency situations when ATMs and other payments technologies are unusable... More
European Central Bank launches next phase of digital euro project
The European Central Bank (ECB) has completed the initial two-year investigation phase of its digital euro project and will now implement a two-year preparation phase that will cover the finalisation of a digital euro rulebook, the selection of providers to develop a digital euro platform and infrastructure, as well as testing and experimentation across a range of use cases for the central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More
Google Wallet lets users store digital IDs and driving licences on Android smartphones in Arizona, Colorado and Georgia
Residents of Arizona, Colorado and Georgia in the US can now add digital versions of their state-issued identity card and driving licence to Google Wallet on their Android NFC smartphone and use it to verify their identity at select Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints... More
Samsung adds NFC to Galaxy SmartTags to help users track lost belongings
Samsung has added an NFC-enabled Lost Mode to its upgraded Galaxy SmartTags that enables users to upload a message containing their contact information that anyone finding their tagged belongings when they have been lost or misplaced can scan in order to return them... More
Spanish banks find that digital euro can run on existing payment rails
A working group of 30 Spanish banks and payment services providers, including BBVA, Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, CaixaBank and Iberpay, have completed a proof of concept (PoC) trial for digital euro transactions and recommended that the proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) is designed to leverage existing payments infrastructure... More
Apple lets US iPhone users check Discover Card balances and transaction history in Wallet
Apple iPhone users in the US with a Discover credit card will soon be able to opt in to a Connected Cards feature that enables them to check their card account balance and transaction history directly in Apple Wallet... More
UAE to launch national domestic card scheme
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is to launch the country’s first national domestic card scheme (DCS) in order to promote the use of digital payments and enhance financial inclusion... More