European Payments Council

The European Payments Council has published an updated edition of its mobile payments white paper and made it available for public consultation. "To ensure that the EPC's work in the area of m-payments best meets industry... More

Technical specifications have been finalised, the French government is providing €20m to promote the adoption of NFC services and four mobile network operators and four banks have announced they will deploy NFC services nationally in the spring of 2012. More

The payments organisation is calling on the industry to provide feedback on its suggested NFC interoperability guidelines by 17 June. More

The European Payments Council (EPC) and the GSMA have published a joint paper that defines a minimum set of requirements for a Trusted Service Manger (TSM) acting as the interface between a bank and a... More

The European Payments Council (EPC) has published a white paper which examines the ways in which NFC technology could be used to deliver compatible mobile phone-based payments services across the 32 countries of the Single... More

The three associations will design a model which will allow certification processes to be put in place to ensure that any NFC payments application will work on any platform. More

GlobalPlatform has set up a Transportation Task Force with the aim of actively contributing to the evolution of smart ticketing solutions. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a standard travel media that will offer multi... More

The European Payments Council and the smart card infrastructure specifications body have signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate their NFC development work.  More

The EMV payment standards body owned by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and JCB is inviting mobile operators, chip and handset manufacturers and application providers to a two day meeting designed to help shape EMVCo's NFC standards strategy. More