PARTNER NEWS: NFC tag specialist RapidNFC has introduced an NFC Jewellery Tag designed for merchants to use on high-value products including watches, rings and necklaces. This will enable users to tap their NFC devices on the products to check their authenticity as well as get further information. More
Samsung Pay has signed up more than 500,000 users since its introduction in Korea in August 2015... More
Apple has begun rolling out its latest software update, iOS 9, which brings store credit cards and reward cards to Apple Pay... More
Fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey team will receive exclusive content on their mobile device when attending games at the Consol Energy Center throughout the 2015-2016 season via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons... More
Chase has introduced Android and iOS apps for Chase Freedom cardholders that allow them to redeem cashback rewards at the register on their mobile phone... More
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PARTNER NEWS: In a blog published this week, digital security giant Gemalto discusses the launch of Android Pay and the impact it will make on the industry... More
The number of contactless transactions conducted in Canada has increased by almost 150% over the past year, fuelled in part by the rapid roll-out of Interac Flash cards, research from Technology Strategies International shows. “The mobile payments landscape in Canada will change dramatically within the next five years, with about two thirds of the smartphones in Canada having NFC capability by 2019,” the company adds... More
More than 180m journeys have been made using contactless payments on London’s transport network in the first year since its launch, Transport for London (TfL) has revealed... More
Apple has added 46 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US, taking the total to more than 500... More
South Africa’s Absa Bank is to be the first to develop a proof of concept trial of a new Visa specification that will enable the use of biometrics to verify EMV chip card transactions. The trial will allow Absa Bank customers to use fingerprint readers at select Absa-owned ATMs to complete transactions. More
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
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
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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
Barclaycard is to expand the functionality of its Android mobile app to include NFC mobile payments, allowing customers to make purchases at more than 300,000 locations in the UK as well as across the London transport network from November 2015. More
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
Customers of the UK’s M&S Bank can now access Apple Pay using their M&S debit and credit cards... More
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has become the first financial institution in North America to go live with a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payment service following a pilot in December 2014. More
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
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 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