Mobile messaging app Kik has introduced Kik Codes, QR codes which can be assigned to users and scanned to start a conversation or used by brands to send out offers... More
Archive: News in brief
Put your questions to HCE pioneer Doug Yeager tomorrow
Close to 300 people have registered to attend tomorrow’s NFC World webinar with host card emulation (HCE) pioneer and SimplyTapp CEO Doug Yeager... More
Marriott Hotels to accept Alipay
Visitors to hotel chain Marriott International will soon be able to pay for their hotel stays, food and drink purchases as well as for meeting and event bookings using Ant Financial’s Alipay QR-code mobile payment platform... More
Vodafone Turkey expands NFC mobile wallet
Vodafone Turkey has partnered with Visa Europe to let its users link a Visa card to its Vodafone Cep Cüzdan NFC mobile wallet... More
18% of US Visa cards contain EMV chip
Almost one fifth (18%) of the 720m Visa-branded credit, debit and prepaid cards in the US included an EMV chip and some 295,000 merchant locations were enabled for chip card acceptance as of July 2015, up 19% from 247,000 at the end of June 2015, Visa has told NFC World... More
Samsung Pay averages 25,000 new users daily
Samsung Pay is averaging 25,000 new users and more than US$620,000 in transactions per day since its launch in Korea last month... More
Suretap reports 180,000 NFC wallet users
Some 180,000 Canadians have now installed the Suretap NFC mobile wallet and the average value per transaction has increased 22% month over month since its launch in June 2015, the company has revealed... More
European contactless payments up 170%
Contactless transactions grew by almost 170% year-on-year in Q2 2015 across Europe and consumers already using contactless tapped 20% more often, research from MasterCard reveals... More
Woori Bank adds Samsung Pay to ATMs
South Korea’s Woori Bank has begun accepting Samsung Pay... More
ING acquires Qustomer mobile loyalty platform
Financial institution ING has acquired Belgian digital loyalty platform Qustomer for an undisclosed sum... More
MasterCard sees “strong uptake” of Apple Pay
“We are seeing strong uptake; these technologies will take time to grow but we’re seeing adoption track really well,” MasterCard’s chief emerging payments officer Ed McLaughlin said of Apple Pay during an interview with Fortune... More
200m NFC mobile wallets in 2016
The number of NFC mobile wallets is expected to reach 200m by the end of 2016, up more than 100% from the end of 2014, research from Juniper Research reveals... More
UK black cabs to get Bluetooth beacons
Commuters in taxi cabs across the UK cities of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham will soon receive context-relevant messages as they travel... More
Manchester to get mobile ticketing and contactless payments
Commuters across the UK city of Manchester will soon be able to buy Metrolink tickets using a Get Me There mobile app and make contactless payments for printed tickets at more than 250 machines, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced... More
Australian parliament calls for contactless opt-in
An Australian parliamentary committee is recommending that financial institutions give customers the option to disable contactless payment features... More
Android Pay to launch mid-September?
An internal memo leaked from Verizon Wireless reveals that the carrier believes Google is set to launch Android Pay on September 16, Phandroid reports... More
39% of US consumers use mobile banking monthly
Two in five US consumers (39%) and nearly half of mobile device owners (45%) use a mobile device to manage their bank account at least once a month, research from the American Bankers Association reveals... More
GoToTags raises $300,000
US-based Internet of Things (IoT) specialist GoToTags has raised US$300,000 in funding from Mucker Capital to expand its sales and marketing operations... More
TriMet to roll out NFC ticket payments
Canadian commuters in the greater Portland-Vancouver area will soon be able to pay for their journeys using Apple Pay and other NFC mobile wallet services, contactless cards and the Hop electronic transit card system... More
Lloyds Bank close to adding Apple Pay support
Lloyds Bank is close to launching support for Apple Pay in the UK after being a notable absence from the list of supporting banks when the mobile payment service launched in July... More