Contactless NFC

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...

Apple and Visa have been hit with an Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit by Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, that alleges their mobile-payment partnership infringes four of its patents. In a federal lawsuit filed in Wilmington,...

The Smart Payment Association (SPA), the trade body of the smart payments industry, has released the findings from its annual review of the smart payment card market. Data collated by the SPA from its members...

A quarter of all card transactions are now contactless payments, new figures from The UK Cards Association show. 325 million purchases were made using contactless debit and credit cards in November 2016, accounting for 25%...

MeaWallet has agreed with Seamless to deliver cloud-based HCE payment technology to open up SEQR for contactless EMV payments. MeaWallet’s Cloud-Based Payment Platform will be fully integrated into SEQR and go live early 2016. SEQR will...

A new service that lets NFC phone users enter their PIN on their mobile device to confirm a high value transaction is making it possible for UK consumers to make contactless payments valued at...

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...

Australia’s Commonwealth Bank says its latest app update, with a uniform app interface rolling out across iOS, Android and, for the first time, Windows Phone 8 will offer enhanced general interface but also welcome true...

Visa says that, by the end of this year, more than 12 European countries are adopting the Visa Token Service, a new technology that makes mobile and online payments more secure and convenient by...

Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report. This latest forecast still...