Payments
August 9th, 2010
Turkey’s Akbank and Visa Europe to test microSD NFC device
News of Akbank and Visa's trial follows the announcement in May that MasterCard, Garanti Bank and mobile network operator Avea are to begin a commercial NFC service in Turkey this summer. More
August 2nd, 2010
Federal Reserve leads US payments industry NFC initiative
The US Federal Reserve has been acting as the host for a series of meetings between US mobile network operators, banks and payments networks over the course of the last few months, Digital Transactions reports.... More
August 2nd, 2010
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile to test NFC payments in the US
US mobile network operators AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA are planning to run NFC payments trials in Atlanta and three other US cities, according to Bloomberg. Both Discover Financial Services and the US arm... More
July 20th, 2010
Kasikornbank and AIS introduce NFC payments in Thailand
Kasikornbank, Thailand's second largest bank, and Advanced Info Services (AIS), the country's largest telecommunications operator, have partnered with Gemalto to introduce NFC services in Thailand. Gemalto is supplying the two companies with Trusted Service Management... More
July 15th, 2010
European Payments Council publishes NFC white paper
The European Payments Council (EPC) has published a white paper which examines the ways in which NFC technology could be used to deliver compatible mobile phone-based payments services across the 32 countries of the Single... More
July 15th, 2010
KDDI, Softbank Mobile and SK Telecom to introduce NFC standard services in Japan and Korea
The three mobile network operators are to move away from the non-NFC mobile contactless technologies they currently support in favour of an NFC standard solution. More
July 15th, 2010
Rfinity expands BYU-Idaho University NFC pilot to local stores and shoppers
Rfinity has signed a deal with Citizens Community Bank that sees its NFC payment trial at Brigham Young University's Idaho campus expanded to include both non-University students and off-campus merchants. The trial at BYU-Idaho began... More
July 14th, 2010
French government funds twelve more NFC and RFID projects
Christian Estrosi, the French Minister for Industry and the Mayor of Nice, has announced details of twelve NFC and RFID projects which are to share in €4.5 million of funding from the French government. The... More
July 14th, 2010
PayPal begins move into retail store payments with Bling Nation pilot
Online payments giant PayPal has partnered with Bling Nation for a trial that will see consumers being able to use their PayPal accounts to make payments in retail stores. The pilot will take place in... More
July 14th, 2010
La Caixa reports first results from Sitges NFC trial
The first results of the NFC payments trial taking place in Sitges, Spain show that 60% of the participants have so far used their phone to make a payment, Benjamí Puigdevall, CEO of e-La Caixa,... More
July 2nd, 2010
China Mobile will continue to ‘vigorously promote’ RF SIM
Despite pressure from regulators to drop its RF SIM technology, China's largest mobile network operator says it will continue to push ahead with its RF SIM deployment while, at the same time, also exploring options for delivering solutions compatible with the NFC technology being adopted by Chinese banks. More
June 25th, 2010
China Unicom and Bank of Communications announce commercial NFC payments launch
The Chinese bank and mobile network operator are to launch a commercial NFC service that lets consumers make payments with NFC phones supporting the Single Wire Protocol — using a prepaid account that can be topped up over-the-air from the customer's bank account. More
June 16th, 2010
“Government must force banks to cut excessive NFC and contactless transaction fees” say UK retailers
Debit card transactions cost four times more to process than cash payments, says the UK's leading retail trade association, raising concerns that the move from cash to contactless debit cards and NFC phones will increase retailers' overheads. More
June 16th, 2010
NTT adds new mobile marketing capabilities to Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service
NTT Communications has launched a new service that enables businesses to offer a range of mobile marketing services to users of Japan's Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet service. Osaifu-Keitai, developed and launched in 2004 by NTT Docomo,... More
June 14th, 2010
Gemalto provides KDDI with end-to-end NFC security solution
Gemalto has provided further details of the role it is playing in Japanese mobile network operator KDDI's extensive NFC field test, which went live last month. As we reported in April, KDDI has partnered with... More
June 10th, 2010
PTC, Inteligo and MasterCard test NFC payments in Poland
The 100 participants can use their Samsung NFC phones to make payments at any of 10,000 points of sale in Poland that are already equipped to handle PayPass contactless transactions. More
June 9th, 2010
China Unicom launches NFC payments service in Beijing
The Beijing branch of mobile network operator China Unicom has launched an NFC service in conjunction with Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co (BMAC). BMAC operates the Yikatong card, a contactless stored value card... More
June 7th, 2010
US Bank to test NFC in Q4 2010
US Bank is to run an NFC pilot from the fourth quarter of 2010, Brandon McGee reports from the Mobile Banking & Emerging Applications Summit in Las Vegas. The pilot will include a Mobile Shopping... More
June 3rd, 2010
China Mobile to drop RF SIM in favour of NFC?
China's largest mobile network operator is coming under pressure from MIIT, the national technology regulator, to join the Chinese banks and its two rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom in adopting a single, national mobile payments standard based on NFC standard technology. More
June 2nd, 2010
Discover, MasterCard certify new mobile contactless stickers from Inside and CPI
A new range of contactless stickers, designed to be attached to the back of a mobile phone, have been certified by MasterCard and Discover Financial Services. The stickers, developed by Inside Contactless and manufactured in... More
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