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POS maker VeriFone and Korea-based IT company SK C&C have announced they are working together to deploy mobile wallet solutions for "several large mobile network operators". "Our partnership with VeriFone will enable MNOs to rapidly... 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

"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

"We will be a leader in connecting you to your internet of things," says CEO Thorsten Heins as the Z10 touchscreen BlackBerry 10 phone and Q10 Qwerty phone are announced with NFC. More

In the December edition of Mobile Wallet Outlook, the NFC World team examines the resurgence of interest in using fingerprint verification at the point of sale, the innovative new services being built on top of Apple's Passbook mobile wallet and the latest consumer adoption surveys. Our first "spot report" takes an in-depth look at PayPal's digital wallet and in-store payments strategy and asks whether the online payments giant can succeed in crossing the online-offline divide. More

A video has emerged that appears to show RIM's first BlackBerry 10 device and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it has NFC. An NFC antenna can be seen at the four minute mark in the video of the... More

Mocapay has launched a platform that enables merchants to add mobile wallet capabilities to their mobile apps via a single API. Using Mocapay's API token solution, merchants can offer consumers the ability to select their... More

"MasterCard is providing a programmer-friendly set of functions that make it easy for application developers to rapidly deliver payment apps to consumers — without having to become smart card programming experts," says the payments network. More

Barclaycard US, Green Dot, and Silicon Valley Bank as well as six credit unions have joined Discover in adding support for the NFC mobile wallet. More

"There are 8,500 issuers in the US and literally it will take them a lifetime to actually work through negotiations with all these issuers," Google Wallet's Robin Dua has told developers during an online Q&A session on its recent move to a cloud-based approach to card provisioning. More

The new APIs will allow consumers to save offers directly from a merchant's website into Google Wallet and then redeem them at the point-of-sale via NFC, mobile barcodes or by simply showing the offer code to the sales assistant. More

RIM has published a guide to reading and writing tags using the NFC API in its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. The document, written by Martin Woolley and John Murray from the phone maker's developer... More

GlobalPlatform has released two specification documents for use by software developers working with trusted execution environments. TEE Systems Architecture v1.0 explains the hardware and software architectures involved, while the TEE Internal API Specification v1.0 sets... More

The payments network has announced PayPass Wallet Services, a digital wallet platform that will support NFC. Eighteen financial institutions, American Airlines and bookseller Barnes & Noble are among those who have signed up for the service. More

VeriFone, Ingenico, Vivotech and Equinox are all adding support for the US NFC venture's SmartTap service, enabling merchants to both accept payments and process coupons and offers via Isis mobile phones. More

POS maker VeriFone has unveiled Paymedia Universal Acceptance Platform (UAP), a new platform designed to make it easy for mobile network operators and other mobile wallet providers to enable merchants to support their NFC payments,... More

Online payments giant PayPal has signed a deal with Ingenico that will see its mobile payments technology integrated into the POS terminal maker's new and legacy contactless acceptance devices. PayPal is now also working with... More

The new version of the Open Mobile API is designed to enable app developers to work easily with the secure elements in mobile phones — without needing specialist knowledge of how the technology works. More

RIM has now added support for NFC peer-to-peer applications with the release of the software development kit for the BlackBerry 7.1 operating system. The NFC peer-to-peer API allows applications to share larger files and other... More

The payments giant's digital wallet is to be called 'V.me' and will launch in 2012 as a payment system for online transactions, with NFC at the point of sale and targeted rewards, offers and coupons set to follow. More