The Market
February 21st, 2012
EMVCo picks GlobalPlatform secure element compliance programme
EMVCo, the standards body collectively owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, has officially recognised the GlobalPlatform Compliance Program for validating secure elements as an integral part of its mobile payment certification process. The move... More
February 21st, 2012
Samsung in Malaysian NFC deal
Samsung has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysian RFID firm Smartag that will see the two firms working together to bring NFC technology to the Malaysian market. "Together we will work to simplify the... More
February 20th, 2012
Inside Secure completes IPO
Shares in the first NFC specialist to go public were oversubscribed by five times and the offer price was set at the high end of the range at €8.30 per share, netting the firm €69m and giving it a market capitalisation of €261m. More
February 14th, 2012
Get Linkedin to NFC World
NFC World is pleased to announce the launch of a Linkedin group for readers to connect, network and exchange expertise on near field communication technology and its applications. The aim is to keep discussion in... More
February 14th, 2012
Nokia NFC boss departs
Jeremy Belostock, head of NFC at Nokia for the last four years, has left the company to take up a new post at mailing solutions firm Neopost. Belostock's departure continues an on-going exodus of Nokia NFC staff... More
February 13th, 2012
Juniper forecasts NFC ticketing market
One in eight (13%) of North American and western European mobile users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phones as a metro rail or bus ticket by 2016, compared with less than 1% today, according to... More
February 11th, 2012
Google Wallet boss: No more prepaid cards until we’ve dealt with hack
"To address an issue that could have allowed unauthorized use of an existing prepaid card balance if someone recovered a lost phone without a screen lock, tonight we temporarily disabled provisioning of prepaid cards," says Google Wallet VP Osama Bedier. More
February 10th, 2012
NXP: One in ten smartphones sold in 2011 included NFC
"We believe the year ended with the overall industry achieving about a 10% attach rate of NFC solutions to the 445m smartphones shipped in 2011, albeit below our original expectations of about a 16% attach rate," the chip maker's CEO has told analysts during an earnings call for its end of year financial results. More
February 8th, 2012
Inside Secure ships 17.4m NFC chips, mostly to RIM
The prospectus for Inside Secure's IPO this month shows that the company made US$47m from the sale of NFC chips in 2011, that these were mainly delivered to RIM for use in BlackBerry NFC smartphones and that Inside believes it now has a share of close to 50% of the overall market for NFC chips for mobile phones. More
February 7th, 2012
EPC updates payments paper
The European Payments Council has published an updated edition of its mobile payments white paper and made it available for public consultation. "To ensure that the EPC's work in the area of m-payments best meets industry... More
February 7th, 2012
Inside Secure to IPO this month
NFC and contactless chip specialist Inside Secure will be listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange from 17 February, French newspaper Le Figaro reports. The company aims to raise up to 79.3 million euros... More
February 6th, 2012
Visa reports 1m US chip cards
US financial institutions had issued one million Visa-branded EMV chip cards by the end of December 2011, the payments network reports. Issuers now include Chase Card Services, State Employees' Credit Union, United Nations Federal Credit Union, US Bank, and Wells Fargo. More
February 1st, 2012
French consumers prefer fingerprints to NFC
A survey has found that French consumers are more interested in the idea of using their fingerprint to identify themselves when making a payment than in using a mobile phone for the purpose. 69% of... More
January 31st, 2012
Germans warm to NFC
German consumers are increasingly positive about the idea of making payments with contactless cards and NFC phones, a new survey conducted for Euro Kartensysteme has found. Overall, 43% of respondents to the survey of 1,040... More
January 30th, 2012
FTC looks into mobile payments
The US Federal Trade Commission is inviting comments from industry representatives, consumer groups, technology providers and academics ahead of a mobile payments workshop it will host in Washington, DC on 26 April. More
January 30th, 2012
MC opens Singapore R&D centre
MasterCard has opened an R&D centre at its Asia regional headquarters in Singapore. The centre will focus on the research and development of new payment solutions including emerging payments, chip, contactless, mobile and e-commerce. More
January 30th, 2012
NFC shop opens in Tokyo
The world's first physical retail store specialising in NFC has been opened in Yaesu, Tokyo. The RFID/NFC Real Touch Shop offers NFC tags from UPM RFID, NFC applications, starter kits, and printing and encoding services.... More
January 25th, 2012
200m NFC phones in 2012
There will be 200m phones with built-in NFC technology by the end of 2012, according to the new edition of Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions report. "Even if 2012 turns out to be no more... More
January 23rd, 2012
Brazil moves towards NFC
The first commercial NFC service could go live in Brazil by the end of this year, Mustafa Almansur, the GSMA's NFC programme leader for Brazil, told RCR Wireless at an NFC event organised by the carriers' association... More
January 17th, 2012
EU calls for comment on future of payments
The European Commission has published a green paper assessing the current card, internet and mobile payments landscape and is asking stakeholders to contribute their thoughts on how to ensure a modern, integrated payments environment can be implemented across Europe. More
