Contactless NFC

Working with Visa Europe, RBS and NatWest have launched TouchPay, a mobile contactless payments service for Apple iPhone 4 and 4S models powered by an NFC-enabled protective cover accessory. Initially available to the first 1,000...

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the NFC retail payments market will exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, more than a seven-fold increase over 2012. The leading regions of North America,...

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) together with Raiffeisenlandesbank Ober

AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile USA are thought to be planning to work with Discover Financial Services and Barclays to pilot contactless payments on mobile phones, bypassing Visa and MasterCard. According to Bloomberg, the partnership will...

Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, has been selected by Advanced Info Service Plc. (AIS), the largest telecom operator in...

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UnionPay, China's largest card company and leading card issuer by number of cards, has launched an NFC payment service with Samsung. UnionPay's NFC payment system can be used by more than 3.6 million Samsung smartphones in...

A new study has found the countries among the 20 largest economies who are adapting quickest to using cashless systems like phones and contactless cards – revealing that Canada narrowly edges out Sweden for...

Samsung Electronics is gearing up to jump into the mobile-payment market-with plans to offer a payments service from its NFC-enabled smartphones. The mobile phone giant, which vies with Apple for the top spot in smartphone...

Société Générale, one of the largest European financial services groups, announced that they launched the bank’s first NFC Visa payment service in Strasbourg, France relying on Oberthur Technologies’ Trusted Service Manager (TSM) platform. The NFC...