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
Mobile payments
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
Square to begin shipping NFC mPOS in December
Mobile POS provider Square will begin shipping its EMV and contactless chip card reader in December 2015... More
uBirds seeks funding for strap that brings NFC to any watch
Warsaw-based start-up uBirds has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a leather strap that can be fitted onto any standard watch to add a range of smartwatch-like capabilities... 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
McDonald’s to accept Alipay in more than 2,100 restaurants in China
Chinese customers of fast food chain McDonald’s will soon be able to use Ant Financial’s Alipay QR code mobile payment platform to pay for their food and drink in more than 2,100 restaurants... More
Tech firms face more regulation on payment services
Regulators are looking more closely at whether technology companies that provide financial services should be supervised more heavily, according to HSBC chairman Douglas Flint... 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
40% of UK Apple device owners have used Apple Pay
Four in ten UK consumers with an Apple Pay compatible device (40%) have used the mobile payment service to pay for goods or services since its launch in July 2015 and 15% feel that the introduction of Apple Pay will increase the amount of contactless payments they make, eDigitalResearch has found... More
Barclays’ Pingit partners with Verifone
Some 20,000 online retailers in the UK that use Verifone’s Payware Ocius m-commerce gateway will now be able to accept online payments through Barclays’ mobile payments app Pingit... More
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
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
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
Grupo Aval introduces in-store mobile payments and offers in Colombia
Grupo Aval, Colombia’s largest financial services group, has launched a mobile payment and offers service that lets customers of its Av Villas, Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente and Banco Popular banks make in-store payments using a code generated on their mobile phone... 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
Webinar today: How to develop a mobile payments roadmap
Join NFC World and Gemalto at 3pm BST today to find out how issuers and processors can draw up a mobile payments strategy that combines a winning customer service today with a long-term roadmap for the future... More
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
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
Apple Pay nears China launch?
Apple has reportedly set up a new company called Apple Technology Services (Shanghai) to bring Apple Pay to China... More
Japanese coffee chain lets customers charge purchases to their mobile phone bill
Japan’s largest coffee chain Ueshima Coffee is to let customers make purchases by charging the cost to their mobile phone bill through a partnership with carrier billing solutions provider Boku and mobile network operators KDDI and Docomo... More