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McDonald’s and Kuwait International Bank test NFC payments
June 18th, 2013
Kuwait International Bank and McDonald's are to pilot Seamless' Seqr mobile payment platform in the state of Kuwait. The bank is the first financial institution in the Middle East to test the solution, which lets... More
China Mobile and China UnionPay test NFC on public transport
June 18th, 2013
The NFC mobile payments service launched earlier this month by China Mobile and bank card association China UnionPay has been pilot tested on public transportation services in Beijing, reports TechWeb China. The trial, which has... More
Far EasTone to pilot NFC payments in Taiwan
June 13th, 2013
Far EasTone, Taiwan's third largest mobile network operator, is to begin testing NFC mobile payments during the third quarter of 2013, in cooperation with Far Eastern International Bank and MasterCard. A second phase of the... More
Dutch banks to launch NFC pilot in August
June 3rd, 2013
An NFC payments pilot that will be conducted by Dutch banks ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank across the city of Leiden is set to start at the end of August or early in September, NFC... More
TIM and Bradesco pilot NFC in Brazil
June 3rd, 2013
Brazilian mobile network operator TIM, part of the Telecom Italia group, has started an NFC payments pilot in partnership with Bradesco Bank, with plans to commercially launch the service by the end of this year.... More
MC and Visa certify Dragonfly SIM
May 23rd, 2013
Oberthur Technologies' Dragonfly NFC SIM has received certification from MasterCard and Visa. The Dragonfly, which includes an "NFC Turbo Engine" hardware accelerator designed to shorten transaction times, is being tested by Thailand's largest mobile network... More
T&G gets NFC-Screen orders
May 22nd, 2013
Think&Go has announced that Orange and mobile phone retailer Avenir Telecom are to trial its Dynamic NFC-Screens, which allow information to be transferred from a video screen to NFC phones. Orange will showcase the screens... More
Telecom Italia announces new NFC ticketing pilots
May 16th, 2013
Telecom Italia and payments technology provider SIA are to pilot an NFC ticketing service with three transport operators in the Naples and Emilia-Romagna regions of Italy by the end of 2013. Trasporto Passeggeri Emilia-Romagna (TPER),... More
Airplus pilots NFC virtual cards for travel expenses
May 2nd, 2013
Business travel payment specialist Airplus is pilot testing a mobile wallet solution that generates virtual card numbers travellers can use to pay for travel expenses. The solution expands on the company's existing AirPlus AIDA software... More
Strasbourg begins ticketing pilot
April 23rd, 2013
Public transportation users in the French city of Strasbourg are being invited by local transit operator CTS to take part in an NFC ticketing pilot. The trial will begin in June 2013. More
Carta offers turnkey kit for NFC payments pilots
April 17th, 2013
Payments processing technology provider Carta Worldwide has launched a turnkey kit that can be used by banks and mobile network operators to run an NFC prepaid payments pilot with up to 1,000 participants. The kit... More
New York City to pilot NFC parking meters
April 12th, 2013
The New York City Department of Transportation is to pilot test PayByPhone's mobile payments system, which is already live in San Francisco, Miami, London and Vancouver, in an 18 block area of the Belmont Business... More
BAC tests NFC in Costa Rica
March 27th, 2013
Banking group BAC Credomatic is to run an NFC payments pilot in Costa Rica, El Financiero reports. The increasing use of smartphones across the country, now at 29% of users, has prompted the trial according... More
O2 Germany picks G&D NFC
March 26th, 2013
Telefónica O2 Germany is using technology from Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) in an NFC payments pilot, which began last month. G&D's TSM solution and its NFC SIMs are both being used in the O2 Wallet... More
Banco Sabadell pilots NFC payments in Spain
March 20th, 2013
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
Weve picks Logic Group for coupon and loyalty pilot
March 13th, 2013
Weve, the joint venture between the three major mobile network operators that is working to bring mobile payments services to market in the UK, has chosen customer interaction specialist The Logic Group as one of... More
UniCredit pilots multi-application NFC wallet
March 8th, 2013
UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions, a division of Italy-based financial institution UniCredit Group, is testing a multi-application mobile wallet solution that works on both Android and BlackBerry NFC phones.. Sixty employees taking part in the pilot... More
Tag-a-bag NFC labels go live
March 5th, 2013
Tag-a-bag, an award winning lost and found baggage solution that uses luggage labels equipped with an NFC tag and a QR code, is now live and available to purchase worldwide. The launch follows the completion... More
Telenor unveils Valyou NFC mobile wallet
February 26th, 2013
The carrier has partnered with DNB bank for the launch of the NFC payments service in Norway and is demonstrating the new solution at Mobile World Congress 2013. More
AIS to pilot NFC payments and transit in Bangkok
February 25th, 2013
Thailand's largest mobile network operator will be the first in Asia to test DragonFly, a next-generation SIM card from Oberthur that promises to provide mass transit operators with faster NFC transaction processing times. More
