An Australian parliamentary committee is recommending that financial institutions give customers the option to disable contactless payment features... More
Mobile payments
Android Pay to launch mid-September?
An internal memo leaked from Verizon Wireless reveals that the carrier believes Google is set to launch Android Pay on September 16, Phandroid reports... 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
TriMet to roll out NFC ticket payments
Canadian commuters in the greater Portland-Vancouver area will soon be able to pay for their journeys using Apple Pay and other NFC mobile wallet services, contactless cards and the Hop electronic transit card system... More
Lloyds Bank close to adding Apple Pay support
Lloyds Bank is close to launching support for Apple Pay in the UK after being a notable absence from the list of supporting banks when the mobile payment service launched in July... More
Samsung Pay coming to Gear S2 in November
Samsung has confirmed its mobile payment service Samsung Pay will be made available on its recently unveiled Gear S2 smartwatch from November, Droid Life reports... More
HCE webinar: one week to go
Join NFC World and SimplyTapp on September 10 for a unique opportunity to put your questions on HCE, tokenization, Apple Pay, Android Pay and more to host card emulation pioneer Doug Yeager... More
White paper addresses seven key NFC security questions
A 34-page white paper that addresses key security questions relating to cloud-based payments, tokenization and host card emulation (HCE) technology is now available to download from the NFC World Knowledge Centre.... More
TSB offers contactless cashback incentive
UK bank TSB is rewarding customers with 5% cashback on the first £100 (US$152) spent from a Classic Plus account each month using a contactless debit card... More
MyECheck offers QR mobile payments
Electronic check technology provider MyECheck has launched a mobile payments service that will let consumers make payments by scanning QR codes... More
US bank CEOs fear Apple competition
Almost half of US bank CEOs and directors worry about potential competition from Apple, with 63% saying they don’t think their bank is ready to offer Apple Pay, findings from Bank Director’s 2015 Growth Strategy Survey reveals... More
Gulf Bank brings contactless POS with NFC
Gulf Bank has become the first bank in Kuwait to launch contactless POS terminals capable of accepting NFC payments, following a partnership with electronic banking services company Knet and MasterCard... More
Gemalto partners with Samsung for the launch of Samsung Pay in Europe
PARTNER NEWS: Digital security giant Gemalto has partnered with Samsung to drive the deployment of Samsung Pay across Europe, utilising its Allynis Trusted Service Hub (TSH)... More
Lyle & Scott creates contactless payment jacket with bPay
Scottish knitwear brand Lyle & Scott has begun selling a contactless jacket that comes equipped with Barclaycard bPay technology to enable the wearer to make payments with a tap of the cuff at any contactless terminal... More
Android Pay will launch ‘very soon’
Android Pay will launch “very, very soon,” Google’s head of commerce partnerships Jack Connors told Mobile Payments Conference in Chicago this week... More
RBC gets Secure Cloud payments patent
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been awarded a patent for its Secure Cloud mobile payments platform by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering the use of secure tokens by the bank’s clients to facilitate payments from mobile devices... More
PayPal launches PayPal.Me
PayPal has launched a P2P payment service in 18 countries that lets consumers request money by sharing a personal PayPal.Me link... More
Ingenico joins WorldPay bidding war
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico has submitted a bid for UK-based payment processor WorldPay... More
Sony unveils Wena Wrist with NFC payments
Sony is crowdfunding a new smartwatch called Wena Wrist that is equipped with NFC payments compatible with the Japanese Felica standard... More
Uber ‘to launch mobile wallet in India’
Taxi service Uber is to introduce its own mobile payment wallet in India, Times of India reports... More