Some 43% of small business owners in the US are familiar with EMV cards, Capital One’s Spark Business Barometer has found, but just a third (34%) of those were accepting EMV cards as of August 2015... More
USA
Samsung Pay gets seven city US promo tour
Samsung is to run a seven city tour to promote the launch of Samsung Pay in the US... More
Starbucks takes mobile ordering to the UK
Coffee chain Starbucks has expanded its Mobile Order & Pay service to the UK, allowing customers to use its iOS mobile app to pre-order and pay for their food and drinks in more than 150 stores across London... More
Clear2Pay adds certified testing solutions for US move to EMV
PARTNER NEWS: Conformance testing specialist Clear2Pay Open Test Solutions has received certification from major payment networks for a suite of solutions and services that are designed to make it easier for US merchants, VARs and payment processors to add support for EMV to POS terminals... More
60% of US cards to support EMV by year end
Six in ten US payment cards (60%) will include an EMV chip by the end of 2015, research from the Payment Security Task Force shows, and that number will grow to 98% by the end of 2017... More
One in three Americans have an EMV card
More than six in ten US credit card holders don’t yet have a chip-enabled card, a survey conducted by CreditCards.com with Princeton Survey Research Associates International reveals... More
Apple patent reveals details of NFC payments ring
Apple has developed a concept NFC ring that would allow a wearer to make payments, transfer information to others with a handshake and access secure documents on a shared device with a tap of their finger, a newly published patent application reveals... More
Bell ID gets HCE certification from global payment schemes
PARTNER NEWS: Mobile payments specialist Bell ID’s host card emulation (HCE) solution has been certified by three of the largest global payment schemes, the company has announced, making it the first vendor to receive approval from all three schemes for its HCE platform... More
Rio Olympics to get NFC wristbands?
Visa has shown off a proof of concept NFC wristband in San Francisco, demonstrating how it could be used for making payments at the Rio 2016 Olympics next year... More
PayPal to launch contactless reader in US
PayPal is to introduce its PayPal Here contactless card reader in the US on September 30, following its launch in the UK in August 2015... More
Velocity acquires mobile payments app Cover
Restaurant payment app Velocity has acquired mobile payments solution Cover for an undisclosed sum... More
Samsung Pay goes live in the US
Samsung Pay has launched in the US today after going live in Korea in August 2015, where it racked up a total 1.5m transactions in its first month... More
US carriers push Samsung Pay to phones
T-Mobile has reportedly begun pushing software updates to Samsung Pay supporting devices ahead of the mobile payment service’s launch in the US, expected today... More
USA Technologies adds NFC to 100,000 vending machines
Cashless vending machine technology provider USA Technologies has now equipped approximately 300,000 locations across the US to accept Apple Pay and Android Pay, the company has revealed — up 100,000 on the 200,000 units it reported in February 2015... More
Three in four Android users would use an NFC payments service
More than three quarters of Android users (78%) would use a service similar to Apple Pay if it became available to them, a survey conducted by Helixion has found... More
Samsung Pay adds new features
Samsung Pay has updated its app for Android devices for those currently using the service in a beta test in the US... More
Korean Samsung Pay users spend $30m in first month of launch
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
Starbucks rolls out mobile ordering across USA
Coffee chain Starbucks is to make its Mobile Order & Pay service available across the US so customers nationwide can place and pay for orders in advance using their iOS and Android devices... More
CTIA visitors get NFC badges
PARTNER NEWS: Visitors at CTIA Super Mobility Week 2015 in Las Vegas and IBC 2015 in Amsterdam were able to capture and exchange business cards with other attendees using NFC badges powered by NXP’s Mifare DESFire EV1 chips... More
HTC lists devices supporting Android Pay
Handset maker HTC has released a list of its Android Pay supporting devices following the mobile payment service’s launch across the US earlier this month... More