Market Platform Dynamics CEO Karen Webster has shared her insights and forecasts for the coming year in the EMV, NFC and identity sectors. In a recent Pymnts.com article, Webster reveals her support of PayPal President David Marcus’ thoughts on NFC in the New Year. Like Marcus, Webster feels that NFC payments are not the convenience […]

Report Linker has published its report detailing the global multi-factor authentication market, spanning model types, market sector, and geographical forecasts. The global multi-factor authentication market is expected to top $5.45 billion by 2017 with an estimated compound annua; growth rate of 17.3% from 2012 through 2017. Two-factor authentication is currently most the widely and commonly […]

NFC is quickly becoming a standard feature on a number of devices spanning virtually every major carrier and device manufacturer— with one notable exception. As BSN reports, Apple’s decision to leave NFC on the cutting room floor with the latest iteration of the iPhone sent shockwaves throughout the tech community, and as many had predicted, […]

NFC has, thus far, struggled to gain widespread public adoption, however, Hyundai has announced plans to incorporate NFC in its vehicles in a new and innovative way. In a report by Gotta Be Mobile, NFC has been gaining momentum in the form of keyless start functions for automobiles. Keyless start solutions work are a logical […]

Tapit has announced the completion of a $2.4 million Series A round led by MPC Ventures Pty Limited, a subsidiary of Sydney-based Monash Private Capital. Tapit has developed an NFC ecosystem that simplifies the way people receive content and information when they are on the go. Users simply tap one of the Tapit symbols with […]

Dave Marcus, president of PayPal, takes a look into his crystal ball and makes his predictions for the 2013 mobile payments landscape. Marcus is adamant that the payments revolution that has begun this past year with NFC-enabled transactions and mobile wallet apps will continue into the new year. It is clear that the public is […]

With mobile banking solutions seeing increased adoption and the presence of mobile devices permeating virtually every facet of contemporary society, Frost & Sullivan have predicted that four topics will dominate the financial services market in 2013: contactless payments, commercial mobile payment offerings, cloud-based solutions and data analytics. In a release from Frost & Sullivan, the […]

Smart Card Alliance’s Payments Summit will feature credit giants AmEx, Discover, MasterCard and Visa as well as Isis and the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to outline U.S. EMV migration and global payments trends. The 6th annual installment of the Summit will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah Feb. 5-7 with pre-conference workshops to be […]

GlobalPlatform has updated its Composition Model, which streamlines security evaluation of NFC contactless mobile applications. First released in 2011, the Composition Model defines a simple certification approach for the security of secure element (SE) products carrying sensitive or basic applications as well as simplifies post-issuance application management. The latest enhancements to the model will be […]

NFC is a technology that often captures the attention and ambitions of the technology sector, but puzzlingly enough one of the most promising applications for NFC — payments — is yet to come to fruition. As reported by the Third Screen, this past week’s MIT Forum saw a bittersweet application of NFC technology. Dubbed the […]