Payter has introduced its new Globe P45 payment terminal supporting contactless, EMV and NFC mobile payment. The ‘plug and play’ reader is a stand alone device that does not need to be integrated with a cash register, making it suitable for small retailers, according to Payter. The Globe P45 terminal comes standard with a broad […]

Samsung Electronics announced plans to mass produce a new NFC chip featuring embedded flash memory. Slated for production early next year, the chips enables contactless mobile payment at the point-of-sale or in public transit applications, as well as peer-to-peer data exchange. According to Samsung, the chips consume 20% less power than standard NFC chips and […]

Turkish motorists will soon be able to pay for tolls via mobile phone thanks to Bank Asya and Turkcell, according to todayszaman.com. The partners plan to publicly launch the system by February 2011. Anyone interested in participating can go to Turkcell Communication Centers to obtain a specially designed SIM card that lets motorists pay for […]

PKO Bank Polski is partnering with Gemalto to migrate its entire portfolio of Visa debit cards from magnetic stripe technology to EMV contactless. PKO Bank Polski S.A., the largest financial institution in Poland with 1,211 branches and 1,938 agencies serving 8.5 million customers, began deployment of the new technology in September 2010. The bank plans […]

Ingenico will release its new iWL200 series of contactless portable payment terminals at the Cartes 2010 trade show in Paris. Compliant with PCI PTS v2 security standards for contact transactions or PayPass and payWave for contactless, the iWL200 range (iWL220, iWL250 and iWL280) is equipped with several card readers, including swipe, chip and contactless, as […]

Discover Card announced that it has begun issuing Zip contactless credit cards and stickers to its customers. Discover’s Zip is a new payment solution that enables consumers to simply touch a payment device – in the form of either a plastic card or a sticker that can be attached to a mobile phone or any […]

Coca-Cola has hooked up with European payments specialist PingPing to upgrade its vending machines in Belgium and Luxembourg to accept NFC mobile payment, according to thenextweb.com. The new feature, to be in place by the end of the year, will allow customers to pay for drinks by simply passing a mobile phone equipped with an […]

NXP Semiconductors and Gemalto have entered a licensing agreement allowing Gemalto to integrate MIFARE into its universal integrated circuit cards (UICCs), the smart card used in mobile terminals in GSM and UMTS networks. According to NXP, the partnership’s main purpose is to encourage the use of NFC mobile devices in the MIFARE infrastructure, therefore accelerating […]

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is launching a platform for mobile payment services that will have customers making contactless transactions with their phones by 2012, according to futuregov.asia. In the IDA’s own words, the project will deliver “a secure, interoperable and scalable NFC infrastructure that provides an open and cost effective means for […]

Greenstone Energy, owner of New Zealand’s BP and Shell stations, is looking at a contactless upgrade that would allow drivers to pay for up to $60USD of fuel with a tap of a contactless credit card, according to stuff.co.nz. Greenstone’s move coincides with a mass migration towards contactless payment techonlogy in New Zealand as the […]