Contactless NFC

A new market forecasts from Juniper Research show rapid adoption of NFC services over the next 3 years, with at least 1 in 5 smartphones worldwide having NFC contactless functionality. Worldwide, Juniper forecasts almost 300...

The new service enables keys, certificates and NFC credentials to be stored securely in a remote location, rather than in the mobile device, is fully compatible with standard EMV contactless payments terminals and enables...

VeriFone has announced a partnership with Bling Nation (MPW 136, 149) joining efforts to support an introductory mobile payments program in California, USA utilizing VeriFone payment solutions. The new program enables businesses and customers to...

Eurosmart has released the 2014 figures for the worldwide secure elements shipments and the smart secure contactless markets as well as the corresponding 2015 forecast. The data provided by Eurosmart consist of the consolidated figures...

The UK's PayPoint has become the first cash payments network to introduce the acceptance of contactless credit and debit card payments at stores within its national network. 1,000 PayPoint retailers nationwide already accepting credit...

Morpho (Safran) announced its participation in the Portuguese MobiPag project, the first results of which were publically demonstrated on April 10. The project aims to develop the dematerialization of payments with the use of...

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,...

As usage of contactless cards has trebled, just under half of consumers (47%) expect, or would prefer, businesses to offer contactless payment for low-value transactions, according to new research from Lloyds Bank Cardnet. Despite its...

Bankinter has developed an NFC payments solution that works without a secure element, potentially cutting out both mobile network operators and players like Google from the NFC payments business. Bankinter's technology is completely software-based. The...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been agreed between the decision making body of the European payments industry, the European Payments Council (EPC) and GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for smart card infrastructure, to...