Global EMV payment card shipments increased by less than 1% year-on-year in 2016, reaching nearly 3bn, ABI Research says... More
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Proxama signs South African EMV deal
PARTNER NEWS: Proxama has signed a five-year contract with a “leading South African insurance and financial services provider” for the supply of in-house EMV card issuing, PIN management and card life cycle management... More
CPI Card Group and Proxama to offer innovative mobile and EMV payments services in North America
PARTNER NEWS: Payments solutions provider CPI Card Group has chosen to use technology supplied by digital payments solution provider Proxama to deliver “innovative financial and payments products” to its North American customer base, including mobile and EMV-related services... More
Dejamobile joins the NFC World partner program
NFC World today welcomes mobile payments solution provider Dejamobile as a member of our partner program... More
STMicroelectronics to use NFC assets acquired from AMS to deliver next-generation solutions
PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics (ST) will use its July acquisition of NFC and RFID products, resources, technologies and intellectual property from AMS to create a new generation of high-performance NFC solutions for both mass-market and vertical-market applications, the company’s Sylvain Fidelis and Mark Dickson have told NFC World... More
Two fifths of global card-present payments use EMV standard
More than two fifths of all card-present transactions conducted globally (42%) between July 2015 and June 2016 used the EMV chip card standard, up from 33% for the previous 12-month period, standards body EMVCo has revealed... More
In-store mobile payments take 0.6% Black Friday share
In-store mobile payments accounted for 0.6% of transactions made on Black Friday in the US, research released by payment technologies provider Cayan reveals... More
Visa reports EMV increase in US
There are now 388.8m Visa EMV cards circulating in the US, 180.6m of which are credit cards and 208.3m debit cards, the payment network has revealed... More
Stagecoach to deliver contactless payments on all its UK buses by 2018
Britain’s biggest bus operator Stagecoach will install contactless payment technology on all of its regional bus services across the UK by the end of 2018, allowing passengers to pay for travel with a contactless credit or debit card, as well as Apple Pay and Android Pay... More
Yes Bank unveils iris scan PoS
India’s Yes Bank has partnered with Lastmile.mobi to develop a biometric point-of-sale terminal using iris scanning technology... More
Beyond OEM Pay webinar — See it now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘Beyond OEM Pay: Mobile payment strategies for banks’ webinar is now available to view online... 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
Join NFC World for a free webinar to learn how banks can deliver differentiated mobile strategies
NFC World will host a free webinar on Thursday 13 October exploring how financial institutions can take control of their own mobile payment strategies to move beyond standard handset maker and card network schemes and provide a differentiated offering to retain customers, attract new business and add fresh revenue streams... More
Mastercard reports strong US EMV uptake
Nearly nine in ten Mastercard US consumer credit cards (88%) contained chips as of July 2016, representing a 105% increase in chip card adoption since the October 2015 liability shift, the payment network has revealed... More
NFC Ring circles the globe
NFC Ring has made its payments ring available to order worldwide, enabling wearers to make purchases with a tap of their finger at any contactless terminal. More
EMVCo to certify mobile devices for NFC and HCE payments
EMVCo has introduced a formal industry testing and certification process for contactless mobile payment devices... More
Three quarters of US retailers plan to accept Apple Pay before 2018
More than three quarters of US retailers (76%) plan to accept Apple Pay by the end of 2017, research released by the National Retail Federation and Forrester reveals. More
Wristbands speed Olympic visitors onto Rio transport
PARTNER NEWS: Visitors to the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games are paying for journeys on buses, ferries and trains across the city with NFC wristbands provided by digital security giant Gemalto and public transportation ticketing operator RioCard. More
Mastercard sees US EMV growth
Eight out of ten Mastercard US consumer credit cards now include chips, representing an 88% increase in EMV adoption since the October 2015 liability shift... More
Visa reports EMV uptake in the US
There were 326.8m chip cards in the US as of the end of June 2016, exceeding the number of people who live in the country, Visa has reported... More