Contactless NFC

DeviceFidelity and Vincento Payment Solutions, in partnership with MasterCard has announced the commercial launch for the European version of moneto, the direct to consumer NFC prepaid mobile wallet app for the iPhone. Showcasing the solution...

Japanese card brand JCB announced it is working with Dai Nippon Printing on a 1 month mobile wallet trial. The product is supposed to launch sometime in 2013. JCB said its mobile wallet will handle...

Vodafone customers will soon be able to add bank cards to their Vodafone Wallet and use smartphones to pay for goods and services at contactless terminals. Following new agreements with Visa and Carta Worldwide,...

Apple Pay now accounts for 75% of US contactless payments and the estimated number of monthly users is up by more than 450% year-on-year, Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed. More than half of the mobile payment...

NXP Semiconductors' sharply lower forecast for NFC phone shipments for 2011 comes as little surprise to many, who point to delays in handset shipments and failure by many mobile operators to firm up their...

Android Pay has linked its mobile wallet service to a handful of mobile banking apps, giving consumers the ability add their cards more quickly to the mobile wallet. Customers of Bank of America, Bank of New Zealand,...

At London's Mobile Payment and NFC conference, industry experts exchanged ideas on expected trends in mobile payment and purchasing this year. The three-day event is co-sponsored by Hungary's Cellum Group, creator of the CellPay...

American Express says that US cardholders will be able to use their phones to shop, tap, and pay for goods and services through the Isis Mobile Wallet service being rolled out later this year. Isis,...

Mastercard and Visa have committed to accelerating the adoption of an open digital wallet, the global card networks announced their agreement to allow each network to request tokenized credentials from the other when consumers...

According to a recent research from Berg Insight, the global installed base of NFC POS terminals will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 28.4% from 21.4 million in 2014 to 74.9 million...