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 World can confirm... More
Dutch banks to launch NFC pilot in August
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TIM and Bradesco pilot NFC in Brazil
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
Portuguese project uses NFC phones as mobile POS terminals
Technology provider Morpho has announced it is the supplier of NFC SIM cards to a Portuguese mobile payments pilot that uses NFC phones as mobile POS terminals and is backed by the country’s major telecoms operators as well as MasterCard and Visa... More
MTS launches NFC payments in Belarus
Mobile network operator MTS has launched an NFC mobile payment service in Belarus in partnership with Belgazprombank, enabling subscribers to make payments across the country at merchants equipped to accept MasterCard PayPass contactless payments... More
Chunghwa launches NFC payments in Taiwan
Taiwan’s largest mobile network operator’s NFC payment service has gone live and four banks will now begin the roll-out of Chunghwa Telecom’s mobile credit card service, which enables Mastercard PayPass credit cards to be issued over-the-air to customers’ NFC-enabled SIMs, starting with Cathay United Bank... More
MC and Visa certify Dragonfly SIM
Oberthur Technologies’ Dragonfly NFC SIM has received certification from MasterCard and Visa... More
HK bank eyes NFC payments
Bank of China (Hong Kong) is in the final stages of testing an NFC payment service that uses a mixture of secure digital memory cards, SIM cards and NFC add-on devices, the South China Morning Post reports... More
Airplus pilots NFC virtual cards for travel expenses
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... More
Dortmunder Volksbank launches NFC payments with O2
German cooperative bank Dortmunder Volksbank (DV) has introduced a mobile payments service that enables customers to make payments with their NFC mobile phone at any merchant equipped to process MasterCard PayPass contactless transactions... More
MasterCard blames carriers for NFC payments delays
“The telcos keep on doing the same thing, they get arrogant and then they get disintermediated,” MasterCard’s Jorn Lambert has told The Australian Financial Review. More
MasterCard certifies NBS TSM
MasterCard has added NBS Technologies’ Xpressi Trusted Service Manager (TSM) platform to its list of approved products... More
Carta offers turnkey kit for NFC payments pilots
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... More
Seamless adds NFC to QR payments platform
Seqr does not require merchants to install new hardware and promises to cut transaction fees in half by bypassing the traditional payments networks. McDonald’s, Axfood and Kjell & Company have already adopted the system in Sweden. More
Fime adds M-Tip testing
Testing specialist Fime has integrated the MasterCard Terminal Integration Process (M-TIP) questionnaire into its Savvi test tool, enabling it to validate that NFC payment terminals are compliant with MasterCard’s latest PayPass terminal specification... More
Nexperts puts PayPass in wallet
NFC specialist Nexperts has introduced an NFC mobile wallet that comes with MasterCard Mobile PayPass certification... More
NFC parking meter gets update
MacKay Meters has received EMV Level 1 Contactless Certification for the latest version of its Guardian Solo parking meter... More
Helixion launches NFC payments platform
NFC payments specialist Helixion has launched Lok-MPL, a new mobile payments platform which the company says already has the backing of 12 major European banks... More
Trevica picks Cardtek TSM platform
MasterCard-owned payments processor Trevica has selected Cardtek Group’s TSMXpert platform to offer mobile payment solutions to European banks and service providers... More
Starhub launches NFC movie tickets in Singapore
“The mobile ticketing innovation is the world’s first NFC mobile wallet with P2P redemption of movie tickets,” says technology provider C-SAM. “This new capability reduces the time customers spend purchasing and redeeming tickets, creating a compelling and seamless customer experience for movie ticketing.” More
Visa backs MasterCard digital wallet surcharge plan
MasterCard’s move to increase the fees charged to “staged” digital wallets like PayPal could see a similar surcharge being applied by Visa... More