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July 12th, 2011
Transport for London to accept NFC payments from 2012
TfL has agreed to relax its transaction speed requirements to allow payments on London's bus and underground network to be made via NFC phones and contactless cards from next year — and expects faster NFC phones and contactless cards to arrive in the near future. More
July 11th, 2011
Eftpos Australia calls for creation of impartial NFC industry council
Bruce Mansfield, managing director of debit card payments system Eftpos Payments Australia (ePal), has called on payments providers and mobile network operators to form an impartial NFC industry council, ZDNet Australia reports. Mansfield said that Eftpos... More
July 11th, 2011
Omnitel launches national NFC service in Lithuania
The mobile network operator is using a system developed by Mokipay Europe that works with both NFC phones and contactless stickers linked to subscribers' SIM cards to enable transaction notifications to be received on customers' phones. More
July 11th, 2011
Vodafone tests NFC in New Zealand
Vodafone is testing NFC technology in New Zealand, the mobile network operator's local chief executive Russell Stanners has told The New Zealand Herald. Stanners said New Zealand had a chance to become an early adopter... More
July 11th, 2011
UniCredit launches mobile contactless payments service in Slovakia
The Slovak bank is providing customers with MasterCard-branded contactless stickers that can be attached to the back of their mobile phones and used to make payments at more than 3,000 contactless card acceptance points currently in place in Slovakia. More
July 11th, 2011
FC Barcelona to test NFC at Camp Nou
Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona has signed an agreement with the R&D arm of mobile network Telefónica that will see the club's Camp Nou stadium being the first to test a wide range of leading... More
July 11th, 2011
Europe’s mobile operators to create common NFC logo
Europe's big five mobile operators are working together to create a new logo for NFC, designed to be clearly recognisable and drive usage of the technology. More
July 11th, 2011
Sprint to begin enabling Google Wallet today?
A software update notification sent by US mobile network operator Sprint to dealers suggests that mobile payments capabilities will begin to be enabled on the Nexus S 4G, at least, from today. The update notification was... More
July 6th, 2011
Consumers to spend $50bn a year via NFC phones by 2014
The value of payments made via mobile phones worldwide will reach US$670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year, according to a new forecast by Juniper Research. The 'Mobile Payment Strategies: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015'... More
July 4th, 2011
Telenor and DnB Nor begin NFC trial in Oslo
The Norwegian bank and mobile network operator have contracted Giesecke & Devrient to provide them with a turnkey NFC solution for a mobile payments trial that will involve a dozen merchant locations in Oslo. More
July 1st, 2011
Yankee Group: Global mobile transactions to exceed US$1 trillion by 2015
The value of global mobile transactions will grow from US$241 billion in 2011 to more than $1 trillion by 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 56%, according to Yankee Group's latest Mobile Money Forecast, part... More
July 1st, 2011
Barclaycard promotes NFC payments with spoof history of money video
Barclaycard has produced a 'mockumentary' on the history of money, to promote the NFC-based Quick Tap service it launched with Orange in May. The video traces the history of money from its beginnings in the... More
June 30th, 2011
Citi proposes ‘hybrid model’ for mobile payments
Banks and mobile network operators should work together on a mobile payments business model that plays to both their strengths, says Citi's Dickson Chu. More
June 30th, 2011
SK Telecom to open NFC Zone in Seoul
Korean mobile network operator SK Telecom is to open an 'NFC Zone' in Seoul, the company's head of global partnerships has told delegates attending the GSMA's Mobile Money Summit in Singapore. The NFC Zone will... More
June 30th, 2011
ANZ Bank: We like NFC, but not via microSD
"At this stage, we will not be progressing with microSD as a contactless payment technology platform," says the Australian banking giant. More
June 29th, 2011
Proxama unveils NFC Murder Mystery game
The hi-tech version of a traditional murder mystery game uses NFC phones and tags to allow participants to discover clues hidden around a venue and to accuse their choice of suspect. More
June 29th, 2011
Deutsche Telekom awards custom NFC SIM development contract
The planned international rollout of NFC services to Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Era mobile networks will use bespoke NFC SIMs developed by Giesecke & Devrient. The new SIMs will be "functionally expanded" and "go beyond the standardised NFC functions". More
June 28th, 2011
VingCard launches NFC room key system for hotels
The hotel room key market leader, part of the Assa Abloy group which recently ran an NFC trial at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm, has now brought the technology to market. More
June 28th, 2011
BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France's second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg... More
June 28th, 2011
German savings banks begin move to NFC
The German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) is to convert all its customers' debit cards into contactless payments cards, as a forerunner to the introduction of NFC payments, Der Handel reports. The association's 428 member savings... More
