More than one in ten Apple Watch owners (13%) voted Apple Pay as the feature they like best about their device, 451 Research has found... More
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56% of US consumers unaware of EMV
More than half of US consumers (56%) don’t know what an EMV credit card is and 53% have not yet received one, research from Harbortouch reveals... More
86% of TMG members to offer both Samsung Pay and Android Pay
Some 86% of the financial institution clients of payment solutions provider The Members Group (TMG) are planning to make Samsung Pay and Android Pay available to cardholders... More
Stripe adds support for in-app payments
Mobile and online payment provider Stripe has launched Relay, an API that will allow developers to enable instant purchases in third-party mobile apps... More
M&S Bank adds Apple Pay support
Customers of the UK’s M&S Bank can now access Apple Pay using their M&S debit and credit cards... More
Carrefour Belgium to roll out contactless terminals
Supermarket giant Carrefour Belgium has teamed up with Visa Europe and transaction services provider Worldline to roll out contactless payments in 747 stores across the country by the end of this year... More
Estimote uses BLE stickers for indoor location
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) specialist Estimote has released an indoor location solution incorporating Estimote Stickers, Estimote Cloud and a mobile app to enable a user to search for objects tagged with stickers in specific locations... More
Starbucks to expand mobile ordering and payments across the US
Starbucks has revealed that it will make its Mobile Order & Pay service available in all of its US stores by the end of September 2015... More
Lloyds Banking Group goes live with Apple Pay
The UK’s Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed that its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers can use Apple Pay from today, following reports last week that customers had successfully added their cards to the mobile payment service... More
Android Pay requires secure lock screen
Google is requiring users to have a secure lock screen set-up in order to use Android Pay, Droid Life reports... More
MasterPass volumes up 40% in Europe
The number of MasterPass transactions in Europe has increased at an average 40% every month for the last six months and the online payment solution is now accepted at over a quarter of a million retailers around the world, MasterCard has revealed... More
UK restaurant chains adopt Qkr! mobile payments
UK restaurant chains ASK Italian, Zizzi and Carluccio’s are the latest to sign up to Qkr!, MasterCard’s mobile payment solution that lets customers pay their bill using their mobile device and MasterPass directly from the table... More
Half of Canadian bankers not yet ready for mobile payments
Nearly half of Canadian banking executives (46%) do not think they have the IT infrastructure systems and processes in place to meet present and future customer expectations for mobile payments, research from telecommunications provider CenturyLink reveals. “70% said they don’t have the infrastructure in place, or it needs improvement, for digital channels,” the company adds... More
ING starts HCE trial in the Netherlands
ING has begun testing a host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments service in the Netherlands after unveiling its plans to do so in June... More
Nine in ten US financial institutions working on EMV
Nine in ten US financial institutions have either begun issuing EMV debit cards or are planning to do so by the end of 2015, research from Pulse reveals... More
13% of UK consumers have made an in-store mobile payment
Some 13% of UK consumers have made an in-store mobile payment, up from 3% last year, Deloitte’s Mobile Consumer 2015 report reveals... More
Lloyds and Halifax prep Apple Pay launch
Customers of UK banks Lloyds Bank and Halifax are reporting that they have successfully added their cards to Apple Pay... More
Discover to support Apple Pay from September 16
Discover will begin supporting Apple Pay from September 16 and the company will award cash back to cardholders in the US who use their Discover cards through the mobile payments service... More
Office 365 users get NFC access
ID card provider HID Global has integrated its ActivID Tap Authentication solution with Microsoft’s Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) to allow users of Microsoft Office 365 to access corporate cloud applications, data and services by tapping a smartcard against an NFC device... More
Apple continues NFC support in iPhone 6s
Technical specifications for Apple’s new flagship smartphones — the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus — reveal that the devices will support Apple Pay... More