Isis

"The Isis mobile wallet, set for release in two US cities this summer, will feature a prepaid card with cash already loaded and a capability to 'follow' participating merchants to receive coupons and other offers,"... More

The Isis NFC pilots due to take place in Salt Lake City and Austin from this summer will run for six to twelve months before a nationwide rollout begins, the carrier-led joint venture's Jim Stapleton... More

A white paper designed to show how the transit industry can best make use of NFC technology has been published by the Smart Card Alliance. "One of the major challenges facing transit agencies today is... More

VeriFone has completed its €600m acquisition of Point International, northern Europe's largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers and a supplier to PayPal's NFC trial in Stockholm. Point provides point-of-sale technology... More

US NFC venture Isis is exploring the potential of expanding overseas, Bloomberg reports. Isis "has held discussions to explore international opportunities," Jaymee Johnson, Isis' head of marketing, told the news service. "The underlying equity partners... More

The core trusted service management (TSM) platform to be used by the US NFC joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless will be provided by France-based Gemalto. More

"Recent reports that Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on our devices are false," says Verizon. "We are continuing our commercial discussions with Google on this issue." More

The handset maker's lead delegate to the NFC Forum and its head of NFC business development for the Americas have now left the company. The UK-based VP of industry collaborations will leave at the end of December. More

VeriFone has acquired electronic payments specialist Point International from Nordic Capital for €600m (US$812m) as the POS terminal maker accelerates its transition to a managed services revenue model. Stockholm-based Point provides a range of services... More

New Jersey Transit has become the first public transportation operator to announce plans to enable travellers to pay for fares with Google Wallet-enabled NFC phones. 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

The company's new NFC controller chips allow multiple secure elements to be active on a single phone at the same time, making it possible for consumers to use both a mobile wallet supplied by a mobile network operator and a mobile wallet supplied by a bank, handset maker or operating system supplier. More

HTC, LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile and Sony Ericsson as well as MicroSD device maker DeviceFidelity have agreed to implement Isis NFC and technology standards. More

US mobile network operators AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile are planning to invest more than US$100m in their Isis NFC joint venture, Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the project." Ultimately, Bloomberg adds:... More

The C-Sam platform will enable Isis to offer smartphone users a comprehensive mobile wallet for conducting secure NFC transactions related to payments, rewards, coupons, tickets, transit and other services. More

Edward Gilligan, vice chairman at American Express, has set out the thinking behind the payments giant's recent series of deals with Isis, Facebook, Foursquare, Sprint and Verizon in an interview with Bloomberg TV. More

Google has been field testing its NFC payments service with a large group of users since late May and, from later this summer, anyone with a Nexus S 4G and a Sprint contract will be able to use their phone to make mobile payments at merchants that accept MasterCard PayPass. More

Isis is to put in place a fully open 'TSM to TSM' architecture, the company has told NFC World, so that banks and service providers — as well as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express — will be free to choose their own NFC technology suppliers. More

The 'Mobile Payments Smackdown' session at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech event today is set to be the venue for the first live discussion of the NFC deals signed by the major US payments networks with... More

"We absolutely believe that mobile payments has to be open," Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard's chief emerging payments officer has explained in a video interview posted on the company's Heart of Commerce blog today. "You'll be able... More