Annual shipments of NFC-ready POS terminals are anticipated to reach an estimated 16.1m units worldwide this year, Berg Insight reveals, with more than 90% of new units shipped across Europe and North America supporting the technology... More
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Visa and BioConnect work to enable multiple biometrics on mobile apps
Visa is working with biometric identity platform provider BioConnect to enable multiple methods of biometric authentication through a single mobile app... More
NFC World webinar to share real-world lessons from HCE mobile payments pilot
NFC World will host a free webinar on Thursday 8 December to provide insight into the lessons learned from a real-world implementation of a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments service that makes use of Visa and Mastercard’s cloud-based payment standards... More
Banca Intesa launches HCE mobile payments in Serbia
Customers of Serbia’s Banca Intesa — a subsidiary of Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo — have become the first in the Balkan country to be able to make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments, using their Visa debit cards at any contactless terminal... More
Orange Cash supports Apple Pay
Orange’s mobile wallet app Orange Cash now supports Apple Pay in France, with support from German payment firm Wirecard, the operator has announced... More
Smartphone maker offers mVisa QR code payments in India
Smartphone maker Micromax is to offer the mVisa QR code-based mobile payments service through its Udio mobile app across India, in collaboration with Visa and payments solution provider TranServ... More
Ecobank to roll out mVisa in 33 African markets
Pan-African banking group Ecobank has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Visa to roll out the mVisa QR code-based mobile payment service in 33 African markets by the end of 2016... More
Mastercard adds blockchain APIs to developer site
Mastercard has added blockchain APIs to its developer site to “facilitate new commerce opportunities for the digital transfer of value”, following Visa’s announcement last month it aims to pilot its B2B Connect system next year after working with blockchain developer Chain... More
Samsung Pay set to go live in Canada?
Samsung Pay could be launched in Canada “from the first week of November 2016”, Android Central reports... More
Visa opens up its tokenization platform to third-party suppliers
Visa is allowing third-party partners to offer its Visa Token Service (VTS) platform, allowing device manufacturers, issuers, internet of things developers, wallet providers, merchants and others to offer its digital payment service on any device... More
PayPal talks up in-store mobile payments and One Touch adoption
In-store mobile payments have experienced a “long and difficult road” but the functionality is now starting to resonate with consumers, PayPal’s EVP and chief operating officer Bill Ready has told attendees during a keynote at Money20/20... More
Intel to put Visa payments technology into connected devices
Visa and Intel are to work together to integrate payments security technology into Intel chipsets, enabling device manufacturers to build functionality into their products to create “a more secure payment process for the internet of things (IoT)”... More
Visa works on blockchain B2B payment system
Visa says it is working with blockchain developer Chain to develop a near real-time transaction system for high-value international payments between participating banks... More
Android Pay launches in Hong Kong
Google is rolling out its Android Pay mobile payment service in Hong Kong with support for Mastercard and Visa cards from The Bank of East Asia, DBS, Dah Sing Bank, Hang Seng Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank... More
Visa CEO Charlie Scharf steps down
Visa CEO Charlie Scharf will resign on 1 December 2016 to be replaced by current Visa board member, and former president of American Express, Alfred F Kelly Jr... More
USAA Bank adds Samsung Pay
USAA Bank has introduced support for Samsung Pay for its Visa credit and debit cardholders... More
Apple Pay launches in New Zealand
Apple Pay has arrived in New Zealand with support for Visa credit and debit cards issued by ANZ Bank New Zealand... More
Study shows growing European appetite for mobile payments
Some 54% of European consumers are using a mobile device to make payments for a range of activities in-store, in-app and online, compared to 18% at this time last year, Visa’s 2016 Digital Payments Study has revealed... More
UK Vodafone customers get NFC payments through PayPal
Vodafone customers in the UK can now make NFC mobile payments through PayPal using Vodafone Wallet at any contactless terminal as well as across the Transport for London (TfL) network and on National Rail services in and around the capital using their Mastercard or Visa cards... More
US now Visa’s biggest EMV market
There are now more than 1.46 million chip-enabled businesses and 363 million chip-enabled Visa cards in the US, making it the largest Visa chip card market in the world, the company has revealed... More