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Pop fans will be able to leave their wallets at home during a three day music festival in London in July. All vendors at the Barclaycard-sponsored Wireless Festival will accept contactless payments, including NFC-based Quick... More

The UK-based financial institution has announced two enhancements to its mobile payments offering, increasing the reach of the Quick Tap NFC service it runs with Orange and announcing plans to provide all its Visa credit card customers with a free mobile contactless sticker. More

The NFC Forum and Wima have announced the finalists for their jointly-run Tap Into Innovation: NFC Global Competition 2012. This year's competition attracted three times as many entries as the previous contest in 2010, the organisers... More

Two hundred thousand UK customers have now been equipped with NFC phones they will be able to use to tap smart posters and receive special rewards, says the mobile network operator. More

Companies joining the NFC standards association include advertising agency Dentsu, handset makers HTC and ZTE, MNO payments joint venture Isis and, at board level, UK-based Barclaycard. More

"Consumers are increasingly less willing to carry large amounts of change around with them and many believe that coins will become obsolete in the future," new consumer research conducted by Barclays and Barclaycard has found. More

Nokia's C7 and N9 NFC phones are not equipped to support either an embedded secure element or an NFC SIM, the handset maker has told NFC World, so it won't be possible to use them for mobile payments or other secure NFC services.  More

TfL has agreed to relax its transaction speed requirements to allow payments on London's bus and underground network to be made via NFC phones and contactless cards from next year — and expects faster NFC phones and contactless cards to arrive in the near future. More

Barclaycard has produced a 'mockumentary' on the history of money, to promote the NFC-based Quick Tap service it launched with Orange in May. The video traces the history of money from its beginnings in the... More

From this summer, subscribers to the UK's Quick Tap NFC service will be able to use their phones to make payments in Nice, home of the French Cityzi NFC service. More

The Quick Tap mobile payments service launched by Barclaycard and Orange last month is just the start of the partners' NFC plans, says the card issuer's head of digital payments. "We have a long and deep roadmap of people we want to work with." More

Barclaycard has reworked its rollercoaster ride TV advertisement to promote the NFC payments system it launched last month with Orange. The main character, whose morning commute sees him speeding between skyscrapers and through the city... More

NFC has truly arrived. The last few weeks have seen the announcement of Google's Wallet service, the launch of a national payments system in the UK from Orange and Barclaycard, news that France will launch... More

Starbucks has signed a deal with Barclaycard, in partnership with Visa Europe, to bring contactless and NFC mobile payments to its UK coffee shops. Starbucks' move follows the launch by Barclaycard and Orange last week... More

News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Twitter and Docomo add 'touch and follow' • Doubletwist shares songs with NFC • Airtag offers P2P loyalty • Lifera and Taztag tie up • Lockitron opens doors with NFC • DPT unveils NFC-enabled car park pay machine • SK C&C USA rebrands as CorFire • Bayer puts antennas into decorative films • Mobey Forum expands • and much more...  More

Consumers can use the new service to make payments of up to £15 via a prepaid cash replacement application stored on their Quick Tap NFC phone. Tag read and write functions are also available and both loyalty and transport ticketing applications will be introduced later. More

Samsung has begun shipping the first units of its Galaxy S II smartphone but, outside Korea, it looks as though only the non-NFC version will be available — for now. More

Telefónica O2 Ireland has launched a new prepaid money card, 'O2 Money', marking an expansion by the mobile network operator into the Irish financial services market. O2 Money, already in operation in the UK, has... More

London is to be the first city in the world to convert its entire public transport network to accepting contactless payment cards, Transport for London has announced. "By the end of 2012 card readers across the... More

More than half of UK consumers are distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of contactless payments made through their mobile device, according to new research. A survey by Vision Critical found that 51% report being fairly... More