Close to six in ten US consumers (59%) have not yet got an EMV card and only 32% of those who have are aware that the US is moving to EMV payments, ABI Research has found... More
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One in four US merchants will be EMV-ready by October deadline
Only 27% of US merchants will be EMV-ready by the October liability shift, representing a seven percentage point decline from a 34% estimation in March, research from The Strawhecker Group (TSG) reveals... More
Macy’s adopts PayPal in-store mobile payments
US department store chain Macy’s will enable PayPal as a payment option for in-store, online and mobile purchases by the end of September 2015... More
Best Buy begins support for Apple Pay and Android Pay
US retail chain Best Buy has begun rolling out its planned support for Apple Pay as well as Android Pay... More
500,000 Koreans sign up for Samsung Pay
Samsung Pay has signed up more than 500,000 users since its introduction in Korea in August 2015... More
Pittsburgh Penguins fans get BLE offers
Fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey team will receive exclusive content on their mobile device when attending games at the Consol Energy Center throughout the 2015-2016 season via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons... More
Gemalto talks Android Pay
PARTNER NEWS: In a blog published this week, digital security giant Gemalto discusses the launch of Android Pay and the impact it will make on the industry... More
Apple Pay now supported by 500 US banks
Apple has added 46 banks and credit unions to its list of Apple Pay supporting financial institutions in the US, taking the total to more than 500... More
56% of US consumers unaware of EMV
More than half of US consumers (56%) don’t know what an EMV credit card is and 53% have not yet received one, research from Harbortouch reveals... More
Starbucks to expand mobile ordering and payments across the US
Starbucks has revealed that it will make its Mobile Order & Pay service available in all of its US stores by the end of September 2015... More
Nine in ten US financial institutions working on EMV
Nine in ten US financial institutions have either begun issuing EMV debit cards or are planning to do so by the end of 2015, research from Pulse reveals... More
Google launches Android Pay in the US
Google has begun rolling out its Android Pay mobile payment platform across the US today. In-store NFC mobile payments using the system will be possible at more than one million locations within the next few days, with in-app payments and loyalty expected later this year. More
Google repositions Wallet app
Google has relaunched and repositioned its tap-and-pay Google Wallet app as a peer-to-peer payment solution ahead of the expected rollout of Android Pay later this month... More
Discover to support Apple Pay from September 16
Discover will begin supporting Apple Pay from September 16 and the company will award cash back to cardholders in the US who use their Discover cards through the mobile payments service... More
18% of US Visa cards contain EMV chip
Almost one fifth (18%) of the 720m Visa-branded credit, debit and prepaid cards in the US included an EMV chip and some 295,000 merchant locations were enabled for chip card acceptance as of July 2015, up 19% from 247,000 at the end of June 2015, Visa has told NFC World... More
Woori Bank adds Samsung Pay to ATMs
South Korea’s Woori Bank has begun accepting Samsung Pay... More
39% of US consumers use mobile banking monthly
Two in five US consumers (39%) and nearly half of mobile device owners (45%) use a mobile device to manage their bank account at least once a month, research from the American Bankers Association reveals... More
GoToTags raises $300,000
US-based Internet of Things (IoT) specialist GoToTags has raised US$300,000 in funding from Mucker Capital to expand its sales and marketing operations... More
Engineers trial wireless communication via human body
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body. More
First Internet Bank enables Eyeprint ID
US-based First Internet Bank is letting customers log in to their mobile banking app by scanning their eye, using Eyeprint ID technology, rather than entering a user ID and password... More