More than US$30m has been spent through Samsung Pay since the mobile payment service’s launch in Korea one month ago, Samsung has revealed... More
Mobile wallet
Indian mobile wallet market to reach US$6.6bn by 2020
India’s mobile wallet market will be worth US$6.6bn by 2020, research from TechSci Research reveals... More
How to develop a mobile payments roadmap — See it now on NFC World
NFC World’s ‘How to develop a mobile payments roadmap’ webinar is now available to view online... More
Axis Bank launches mobile wallet that uses sound for in-store payments
India’s Axis Bank has launched Lime, a mobile wallet that combines banking, shopping and payment services and lets customers make in-store purchases using an encrypted audio signal generated by their device... More
Future Group to launch mobile wallet in India
Indian retail conglomerate Future Group is in the process of launching its own mobile wallet, CEO Kishore Biyani has revealed... More
80% of Brits have used alternative payment methods this year
Eight in ten UK consumers with bank accounts have used an alternative to traditional cash and plastic cards in the last 12 months, research by Gocompare.com has found... More
iOS 9 adds loyalty cards to Apple Pay
Apple has begun rolling out its latest software update, iOS 9, which brings store credit cards and reward cards to Apple Pay... More
RBC brings HCE mobile payments to North America
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has become the first financial institution in North America to go live with a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payment service following a pilot in December 2014... More
Vodafone Turkey expands NFC mobile wallet
Vodafone Turkey has partnered with Visa Europe to let its users link a Visa card to its Vodafone Cep Cüzdan NFC mobile wallet... More
Suretap reports 180,000 NFC wallet users
Some 180,000 Canadians have now installed the Suretap NFC mobile wallet and the average value per transaction has increased 22% month over month since its launch in June 2015, the company has revealed... More
Google and Samsung sign up to MasterCard Digital Enablement Express
Google and Samsung are among the first digital partners to join MasterCard’s newly launched Digital Enablement Express program which aims to speed up the process of digitizing and tokenizing MasterCard accounts through the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) that was launched in September 2014... More
White paper highlights actions European card issuers can take to succeed with mobile payments
A 14-page white paper highlighting the key actions European card issuers can take to gain a competitive advantage from the arrival of tokenized NFC payments is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre... More
200m NFC mobile wallets in 2016
The number of NFC mobile wallets is expected to reach 200m by the end of 2016, up more than 100% from the end of 2014, research from Juniper Research reveals... More
TriMet to roll out NFC ticket payments
Canadian commuters in the greater Portland-Vancouver area will soon be able to pay for their journeys using Apple Pay and other NFC mobile wallet services, contactless cards and the Hop electronic transit card system... More
Lloyds Bank close to adding Apple Pay support
Lloyds Bank is close to launching support for Apple Pay in the UK after being a notable absence from the list of supporting banks when the mobile payment service launched in July... More
Uber ‘to launch mobile wallet in India’
Taxi service Uber is to introduce its own mobile payment wallet in India, Times of India reports... More
Google Play adds Android Pay option
A new update to the Google Play services app could let users select between Google Wallet and Android Pay under a ‘Tap and Pay’ option... More
Oxigen Wallet loyalty program partnership
Indian mobile wallet provider Oxigen Wallet has partnered with loyalty program provider PayBack to allow customers to earn PayBack points and redeem them as cash, to make online and bill payments... More
Coin unveils EMV-ready Coin 2.0 with NFC
Connected device maker Coin has released a new version of its electronic magnetic stripe card that is EMV-ready and incorporates NFC, allowing users to store credit and debit cards and make both contactless and swipe payment transactions for in-store purchases... More
MCX adds offers and discounts to CurrentC mobile wallet
US retailer-led consortium MCX has announced a partnership with promotions management and processing provider Inmar to bring digital promotions from US brands to its yet-to-launch mobile wallet platform CurrentC... More