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Bank of China (Hong Kong) is in the final stages of testing an NFC payment service that uses a mixture of secure digital memory cards, SIM cards and NFC add-on devices, the South China Morning... More

"Thousands" of Vodafone UK staff are currently pilot testing the mobile network operator's Vodafone SmartPass mobile payments service at the carrier's campus in Newbury, Berkshire. "This trial builds on the partnership we signed with Visa... More

UL is to become the first laboratory to test mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices for certification under the Visa Ready Partner Program. "We are looking forward to guiding our customers through this new program that will... More

Seqr does not require merchants to install new hardware and promises to cut transaction fees in half by bypassing the traditional payments networks. McDonald's, Axfood and Kjell & Company have already adopted the system in Sweden. More

MacKay Meters has received EMV Level 1 Contactless Certification for the latest version of its Guardian Solo parking meter. "Meeting these standards clearly shows our customers that the Solo will behave consistently when accepting NFC... More

NFC payments specialist Helixion has launched Lok-MPL, a new mobile payments platform which the company says already has the backing of 12 major European banks. The platform, which is being used by Swiss mobile network... More

MasterCard-owned payments processor Trevica has selected Cardtek Group's TSMXpert platform to offer mobile payment solutions to European banks and service providers. Trevica is based in Poland and operates in a number of other countries in... More

"Customers will only have one TSM. It's like a billing system; if you're in, it's harder to get you out rather than if you fight to get in," says Olivier Piou. "I think that we have a very good momentum." More

MasterCard's move to increase the fees charged to "staged" digital wallets like PayPal could see a similar surcharge being applied by Visa. "I think it is totally appropriate to do that," Visa chief executive Charlie... More

The new fee is to be applied to "staged" digital and mobile wallets that provide a way for transactions to be charged to a customer's credit card without any details about the purchase being passed on to the payments network. PayPal and Google Wallet as well as a number of other new market entrants are all expected to be affected but "traditional" NFC wallets will not.  More

Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell has launched an NFC payments pilot in partnership with Telefonica and BlackBerry. Customers taking part in the pilot receive an NFC-enabled BlackBerry Curve smartphone with their Visa bank card details... More

Samsung's Galaxy S4 will come with Visa's payWave contactless payments applet preloaded into an embedded secure element. This, says Samsung, "can be used by both MNOs and banks; more payment applets from multiple brands are... More

Citibank has introduced contactless payment stickers in Singapore with its Quick Pay Tag service. The stickers, which can be used for payments of up to S$100 (US$80), are available for all customers of Citibank Singapore... More

"This solution allows the financial institution to 100% independently define its business model, thus solving the current barriers we are facing with current SE-based NFC solutions," Carlos Alberto Pérez Lafuente, director of innovation for e-strategy and management at Bankinter, has told NFC World. More

Samsung has unveiled its own mobile wallet app at Mobile World Congress 2013. Samsung Wallet "is a convenient mobile app which allows users to store and manage event tickets, boarding passes, membership cards and coupons... More

Bank owned transaction processor Six Payment Services, one of Europe's largest, has partnered with NFC specialist Nexperts to develop a standard approach to handling NFC loyalty applications. "The market for electronic loyalty cards and mobile... More

The handset maker and payments network have announced a plan to pre-load Visa's payWave applet on embedded secure elements in "selected" next generation Samsung devices — potentially enabling banks to offer NFC payments without any involvement from the mobile network operators. More

Vodafone Group has formed a partnership with Munich-based Wirecard for the introduction of its mobile payment service, due to be rolled out internationally from this year. The partnership covers "the creation, implementation and operation of... More

"The pace of innovation in the payments industry requires a new approach that ensures innovative payment methods can be tested, approved and commercialized quickly," says Visa's Jim McCarthy.  More

Visa is making multiple efforts towards a "mainstream launch" of contactless and mobile payments in the UK in 2013, Marc O'Brien, managing director of Visa UK & Ireland has told a meeting of the Westminster... More