Payments
July 2nd, 2012
Gwallet UK launch imminent?
Google reps have been spotted demonstrating Google Wallet to customers in central London department store Selfridges, NFC World has learned. As part of the demonstration the Googlers paid for the shoppers' purchases, echoing the initial... More
July 2nd, 2012
Ara eTap to offer NFC payments in India
Chennai, India-based technology provider Yeldi Softcom has launched Ara eTap, an NFC sticker-based mobile payments service. Consumers who sign up for the service will be provided with an NFC sticker to attach to their mobile... More
June 29th, 2012
Swedish carriers launch mobile wallet service
WyWallet offers 97% of Swedish mobile phone users the ability to make funds transfers, online and SMS payments today and will include support for NFC payments from 2013. More
June 29th, 2012
Oberthur buys MoreMagic
Oberthur Technologies has acquired Boston-based mobile payments specialist MoreMagic. Oberthur plans to combine the company's technology with its existing NFC and TSM offerings to create a comprehensive suite of mobile commerce and financial services solutions,... More
June 28th, 2012
Google adds ‘Save to Wallet’ APIs for payments cards and offers
The new APIs will allow consumers to save offers directly from a merchant's website into Google Wallet and then redeem them at the point-of-sale via NFC, mobile barcodes or by simply showing the offer code to the sales assistant. More
June 28th, 2012
Targobank and E-Plus to test NFC
Targobank, part of the French Crédit Mutuel group, and E-Plus, Germany's third largest mobile network operator, have announced plans to work together to test NFC payments. The partners will begin with a pilot test using... More
June 28th, 2012
Russian Post to explore NFC
Russian Post has signed an agreement with MasterCard to jointly develop and commercialise a range of "innovative financial products". As a first step, 2,000 of Russian Post's 42,000 post offices will be equipped to accept... More
June 28th, 2012
Isle of Wight festival goers get contactless tickets and payments
"There are a number of festivals throughout the UK, Europe and United States adopting the technology, and they're all using entry wristbands as the intermediary," says technology provider ID&C. "It's convenient for fans and will only benefit their experience." More
June 28th, 2012
Cityzi hits 1m NFC phones
French mobile network operators Orange, Bouygues Télécom, SFR and NRJ Mobile have announced that more than one million Cityzi NFC phones have now been sold. First launched in the city of Nice in May 2010... More
June 27th, 2012
NXP puts SE in Nexus 7
Google's Nexus 7 tablet, launched earlier today, contains a PN65 NFC controller from NXP. The chip features an embedded secure element to support secure NFC transactions such as payments, ticketing, and access control. More
June 25th, 2012
China Mobile signs NFC payments partnership deal
The world's largest mobile network operator is to collaborate with national payments network China UnionPay, in a deal set to lead to the introduction of NFC services in up to one hundred Chinese cities. More
June 22nd, 2012
Introducing The Mobile Wallet Report, the new research service from the NFC World team
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June 22nd, 2012
ACI adds NFC with Bell ID
Payments processing software specialist ACI Worldwide is using technology from Bell ID to offer over-the-air management of secure tokens. ACI Token Manager for Mobile allows lifecycle management of applications, cryptographic keys and secure elements on... More
June 22nd, 2012
Orange and BRD test NFC payments in Romania
Orange Romania and BRD, part of France-based banking group Société Générale, have launched an NFC payments pilot. One hundred BRD customers have been provided with a BlackBerry NFC smartphone equipped with an Orange NFC SIM... More
June 21st, 2012
Windows Phone 8 launch video details Microsoft’s plans for NFC
The launch presentation for Windows Phone 8 shows how Microsoft plans to make its NFC mobile wallet more widely accepted than Google's, provides details of a forthcoming NFC-enabled Chase payments app and highlights a new deals platform and in-app purchasing technology that charges items to the user's default payment card. More
June 21st, 2012
GlobalPlatform releases secure element security specification
Secure element standards body GlobalPlatform has released Secure Element Access Control, a new specification designed to ensure that unauthorised applications residing in a mobile device are unable to communicate with an NFC secure element (SE).... More
June 20th, 2012
Microsoft unveils its NFC mobile wallet plans
Windows Phone 8 is to come with both NFC and a mobile wallet that Microsoft will deliver in partnership with mobile network operators, the company has revealed. More
June 20th, 2012
University of San Francisco to extend NFC campus card service
An NFC solution that integrates fully with the university's existing campus card system to enable students to access rooms and make laundry payments has been hailed as "a first-rate experience for our students and our staff" and is now to be expanded. More
June 20th, 2012
Chinese city to get NFC smart meters
Advanced energy-metering supplier Wasion Group is to begin deploying new NFC-enabled post-pay electricity meters in the city of Chongqing, China, from this month. Wasion's new meters include an NFC system-in-a-package (SiP) solution supplied by ST... More
June 20th, 2012
Tyfone signs up US credit unions and Indonesian partner
NFC-on-microSD specialist Tyfone is to supply mobile banking solutions, including its NFC payments technology, to two US credit unions. Security Service Federal Credit Union (SSFCU) will use a cloud-hosted instance of Tyfone's u4ia mobile platform... More
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