POS maker VeriFone and Korea-based IT company SK C&C have announced they are working together to deploy mobile wallet solutions for “several large mobile network operators”... More
VeriFone and SK C&C team up for NFC wallets
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Samsung enters the mobile wallet market
Samsung has unveiled its own mobile wallet app at Mobile World Congress 2013... More
Telenor unveils Valyou NFC mobile wallet
The carrier has partnered with DNB bank for the launch of the NFC payments service in Norway and is demonstrating the new solution at Mobile World Congress 2013. More
China Unicom picks Gemalto NFC
China Unicom is to to use Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM to secure the Unicom Merchants’ Bank mobile wallet it is rolling out in conjuction with China Merchants Bank (CMB)... More
Indian film fans pay with NFC
Fifteen PVR cinemas in India have implemented an NFC payments service that works with BlackBerry 10 phones... More
Gemalto adds LinqUs NFC wallet
Gemalto is demonstrating a new NFC mobile wallet at Mobile World Congress 2013... More
MasterCard unveils MasterPass digital wallet and mobile payments platform
MasterPass covers in-store and online payments, supports both NFC and QR codes and enables “banks, merchants and partners” to offer their own wallets to consumers. More
Vodafone picks Wirecard for mobile payments launch
Vodafone Group has formed a partnership with Munich-based Wirecard for the introduction of its mobile payment service, due to be rolled out internationally from this year... More
Orange releases Malaga NFC ticketing trial results
82% of participants felt that the NFC bus ticketing system was better than the current subscription-based system and 88% felt that it was a good way to be able to pay for their journeys. More
Airtag adds white label wallet
Mobile shopping specialist Airtag is launching a white label version of its NFC-enabled Airpass mobile wallet at Mobile World Congress 2013... More
Australian supermarket Coles tests NFC payments and rewards
“This new trial will assess the user friendliness of the technology, its capacity to increase the speed of transaction, save customers time in store and seamless integration of Flybuys points to add even more value to the Coles customer experience,” says the retailer. More
CIBC picks Sequent for NFC
Canada’s CIBC bank has licensed the Sequent Wallet Management Platform, which was announced last week, for use in its NFC payments service... More
Sequent launches multi wallet platform for NFC phones
The technology makes it possible to create links between payment cards stored in a secure element and multiple mobile wallets and apps, allowing several different mobile wallets to be supported on one NFC phone and enabling merchants and other service providers to build secure payments capabilities into their existing apps. More
T-Mobile Poland adds banks to NFC platform
Customers of Getin Bank and Noble Bank are now able to access T-Mobile Poland’s MyWallet NFC service, the carrier has announced... More
Google Wallet gets a makeover
A new version of Google’s mobile wallet app has been released, with a new look user interface and improvements to application stability and battery usage. More
Toro sets up in Barcelona
Hong Kong-based NFC wallet specialist Toro has opened a European research and development centre in Barcelona, Spain... More
Samsung confirms Galaxy S III Mini with NFC
Samsung has announced that an NFC version of the Galaxy S III Mini is now available... More
Telefónica O2 to begin beta testing NFC payments in Germany
“Soon, children will only know from history books what a wallet and hard cash are,” says René Schuster, CEO of Telefónica Germany, as the carrier prepares to make NFC payments available to customers from next month. More
Visa Europe forecasts breakout year for NFC
“The year ahead will see us putting mobile contactless payments into consumers’ hands and introducing digital wallets on a mass scale,” says Peter Ayliffe, chief executive of Visa Europe, as the payments network predicts there will be 40 mobile contactless payments issuers in Europe in 2013. More
Wincor Nixdorf to offer mWallet
Wincor Nixdorf is to unveil a mobile wallet solution for retailers, supporting both NFC and QR code payments, at the NRF show in New York next week... More