Contactless NFC

SK Telecom is heading into the mobile payment market with T Smart Pay. The T Smart Pay service, to be launched at the end of this year, is based on contactless NFC. The charge goes onto...

Bank of America, the largest US consumer bank, and Visa, the world's largest payment processor, plan to begin a test program next month that lets customers use smart phones to pay for purchases in...

Following the launch of Android Pay, four new banks join the Android Pay family. From today, customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Ulster Bank and Santander are able to make contactless purchases in stores...

Commidea has announced that 1 million contactless transactions with a total value of more than £4 million have been processed using Commidea solutions so far this year. This means that over 80% of contactless...

Banks and mobile network operators are set to go head to head in a bid to control the market for NFC mobile payments services, according to a new research report. "NFC mobile phones will be...

Spanish financial services provider Banco Sabadell, in partnership with Telefonica and BlackBerry, have launched a pilot project for contactless payments with NFC-enabled mobile phones. Trial participants, which are also Banco Sabadell customers, can pay...

After last issues news that Canada's largest mobile operator, Rogers Wireless, is gearing up for an NFC mobile-payment launch in which the telco is planning to work with at least one bank and probably...

O2 has contracted with Wave Crest, FIS, Intelligent Environments and Visa Europe to deliver the payments and processing systems for the launch of a full-scale commercial mobile wallet service in the 'second half of...

Mobile Payments World interviews Chris Kangas on how MasterCard technology platform is being used to support the exploding contactless market and innovations like tokenisation of payment card credentials on the MasterCard platform for MasterCard Issuers...

As the recently launched iPhone X makes mobile payments even easier with Face ID, MoneySuperMarket reveals that a quarter (23%) of Generation Z predicts physical cards will soon be obsolete as mobile payments reign supreme. The new...