Chinese visitors to the UK can now use Alipay at any retailer accepting mobile payments platform Zapper... More
Archive: News in brief
Take part in our ‘Beyond OEM Pay’ webinar today
Join NFC World and Bell ID at 3pm BST today to find out how banks can maximize the mobile payment opportunity, moving beyond standard handset maker and card network schemes to provide a differentiated offering... More
Android Pay heads to Canada
Android Pay may be heading to Canada judging by the mobile app’s most recent update which “seems to list strings of code that includes references to Interac,” according to Android Headlines... More
Seqr adds NFC payments in UK
UK consumers using Seamless’ Seqr mobile payment platform can now add their bank account to the app and make NFC mobile purchases at any contactless terminal... More
Chase to support Microsoft Wallet next year
US bank Chase is to begin supporting Microsoft Wallet “next year” according to a tweet from Chase Support... More
UK consumers keen on NFC mobile payments
A quarter of UK consumers are making NFC mobile purchases or would like to do so in the future, research by Mastercard reveals, with the figure increasing to 45% for those aged 25 to 34... More
Bank of Scotland customers get selfie sign-ups
Bank of Scotland customers in the UK can now apply for a current account by taking a picture of their face... More
FNB launches NFC mobile payments
Customers of First National Bank (FNB) can now make NFC mobile payments using the latest version of the financial institution’s mobile banking app... More
Join us on Thursday to learn how banks can seize the mobile payment opportunity
Join NFC World and Bell ID at 3pm BST on Thursday 13 October to find out how banks can move beyond standard handset maker and card network schemes to provide differentiated mobile payment offerings to retain and attract new customers and add fresh revenue streams... More
Apple Pay adoption low, says report
Only one in ten iPhone owners have used Apple Pay and, among those who haven’t done so, 63% said it’s because their preferred merchants don’t support it as a payment option, research from Parks Associates reveals... More
EcoCash Ta! signs up 2,000 merchants
More than 2,000 merchants have now signed up to EcoCash Ta!, the NFC sticker-based mobile payment service launched by mobile network operator Econet Wireless’ EcoCash mobile money subsidiary in Zimbabwe in December 2015... More
Apple Pay signs up more UK and US banks
The UK’s Metro Bank and Co-operative Bank have begun supporting Apple Pay, taking the number of financial institutions backing the mobile payment service in the country to 23... More
Desjardins to support Apple Pay in 2017
Canadian cooperative financial group Desjardins is to begin offering Apple Pay to its members and customers... More
Western Union launches P2P mobile app
Money transfer network Western Union has launched a mobile payment app in Canada to enable domestic and cross-border money transfers... More
Amex enables rewards purchases on Amazon
Canadian customers of American Express who are enrolled in the company’s Membership Rewards program can now pay for purchases using their reward points on Amazon... More
Android Pay ends Google Wallet card transfer
Previous users of Google Wallet will not be permitted to transfer cards to Android Pay from October 14... More
Samsung Pay to launch in Thailand this year
Samsung Pay will launch in Thailand this year, the vice president of IT and mobile communications at Thai Samsung Electronics, Wichai Pornpratang, has confirmed at the Thailand Mobile Expo... More
US now Visa’s biggest EMV market
There are now more than 1.46 million chip-enabled businesses and 363 million chip-enabled Visa cards in the US, making it the largest Visa chip card market in the world, the company has revealed... More
Citi joins ClearXChange
US bank Citi has become the latest to join Early Warning’s bank-led digital payments network ClearXChange... More
Japanese government to trial biometrics
The government of Japan is to begin piloting a biometric authentication-based payments service next month that will enable travelers to make purchases using their fingerprint... More