Russian mobile payments startup PayQR has received an investment of 300m rubles (US$3.8m) from businessman Sergey Kozlovsky... More
Archive: News in brief
NXP updates NFC Taginfo app
PARTNER NEWS: An Android app described as a “Swiss Army knife for NFC” has been updated and can now also interrogate Mifare Plus SL3 cards... More
Guide offers advice for card issuers on implementing EMV
A 12-page guide to EMV and the business case for implementing an advanced EMV solution is now available to download from the NFC World+ Knowledge Centre... More
Ugo Wallet adds P2P transfers
Canadian open NFC mobile wallet provider Ugo has launched a beta version of Ugo Pay, a P2P money transfer feature that has been added to its Ugo Wallet... More
Uber China adds cross-border Alipay support
Chinese consumers using taxi hailing app Uber will soon be able to pay for their journeys using Ant Financial’s mobile payment platform Alipay when travelling abroad... More
Bank of America and Wells Fargo to add NFC to ATMs
Bank of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating NFC into their ATMs to let customers complete transactions using their smartphones and services such as Apple Pay, according to TechCrunch... More
Visa took majority of European contactless payments in 2014
Visa PayWave accounted for 61% of the 1.4bn contactless payments made in Europe in 2014, research from RBR reveals, with MasterCard PayPass accounting for the “vast majority” of the remainder... More
WeChat Wallet launches pilot in Hong Kong
Chinese ecommerce giant Tencent is testing its WeChat Wallet service with users in Hong Kong... More
LG Pay White Card will store multiple cards for use in-store and ATMs
LG has developed an electronic ‘LG Pay White Card’ that will let users register multiple credit cards onto a single piece of plastic for in-store payments and ATM withdrawals... More
JPMorgan Chase looks to NFC ATMs
JPMorgan Chase is to roll out ATMs that will let customers withdraw cash using their mobile phone... More
Facebook may soon support Apple Pay
Facebook is open to partnering with Apple Pay and other payment services in order to enable payments on its social media network, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed... More
A third of online transactions now made on mobile
More than a third (34%) of browser-based online transactions globally are now made on a mobile device, compared to just over 30% last quarter, research from Adyen reveals... More
Cook reports strong growth in Apple Pay usage
Apple Pay saw a “significant acceleration in usage” in the second half of 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported during the company’s first quarter earnings call, with a growth rate 10 times higher than in the first half of the year... More
US EMV shipments to hit 617m units in 2016
EMV shipments in the US will reach approximately 617m units in 2016, ABI Research predicts... More
Metrolink to deploy mobile ticketing across Southern California
Passengers on Southern California’s Metrolink rail system will soon be able to pay for tickets on their smartphone and validate them at barcode readers on station turnstiles... More
Bologna Airport to install Bluetooth beacons, NFC tags and QR codes
Travellers passing through Bologna Airport in Italy will soon be able to download the airport’s mobile app by tapping NFC tags or scanning QR codes with their mobile phone... More
Barclays to support Apple Pay within “60 to 75 days”
Barclays will add support for Apple Pay “within the next 60 to 75 days”, the bank’s Ashok Vaswani has revealed in an email to a customer... More
Visa reports 250% growth in UK contactless transactions
Contactless now accounts for one in seven Visa transactions across the UK, up from one in 25 a year ago, the payment network has revealed, with contactless payments growing 250% year-on-year and 60% of transactions occurring outside London... More
Broadway theatres deploy BLE beacons
Theatregoers on New York’s Broadway can now get information about the show they are seeing and receive offers from local restaurants, bars and other venues via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and the Playbill Passport app. The app has been developed by technology company Broadway Voice and Playbill magazine while the beacons have been supplied by Gimbal and are used in conjunction with Urban Airship’s mobile marketing platform... More
Irish transit users get NFC top-ups
Travellers in Ireland can now top up their Leap public transport card by tapping it against their NFC phone and entering their payment details... More