Vodafone and Visa have announced a partnership to enable consumers to pay for goods and services using their mobile phones. Available to Vodafone’s 398-million customer base across the globe, the mobile wallet service will feature a Vodafone stored value account – based on the Visa prepaid account – that uses Visa payWave technology to perform […]

NXP Semiconductors announced a new SWP-SIM secure element platform that combines passport level security, flash memory, smart card performance and multi-application support. Designed to boost security in mobile transactions, the new secure element incorporates SmartMX2 technology, NXP’s next generation of secure elements, which have been deployed almost 1.5 billion times in eGovernment, banking and transport […]

Banco Santander, the Spanish arm of Santander Group, has teamed up with Orange to develop the first mobile wallet that supports both Visa and MasterCard issued accounts. According to NFC World, Santander’s mobile wallet will enable customers to load their Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards onto their mobile phones to make NFC payments […]

Isis has revealed that its forthcoming mobile wallet service will come with a prepaid card account, much like Google Wallet, along with a feature that enables users to “follow” merchants to receive coupons and offers, reports Digital Transactions. The announcement came at a meeting for software developers and terminal-manufacturer executives in Austin, Texas – one […]

Visa and Samsung have announced that they will reveal the official mobile payments application for the London 2012 Olympic Games next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Based on Visa’s payWave technology, the application will enable NFC mobile phone users to tap and pay at the point of sale, as well as check […]

MasterCard and Telefonica have named their mobile payments joint venture in Latin America “Wanda.” According to MasterCard, Wanda was created to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in 12 markets in Latin America, providing mobile payment solutions to the more than 87 million Movistar customers. These mobile payment services will be linked to a […]

Online payments provider Boku has teamed up with MasterCard to launch Boku Accounts – a new mobile service that enables customers to make NFC payments anywhere MasterCard PayPass is accepted. Offered through a mobile subscriber’s mobile network operator, Boku Accounts also enables merchants to create loyalty programs as well as send targeted offers to customers via […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that six NFC service providers will showcase their solutions at NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth next week in Barcelona. Foursquare, DeviceFidelity and several others will gather at NXP’s “NFC concept café” to demonstrate NFC solutions powered by NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers. First up, Touchanote works together with […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced that it is supplying NFC-enabled SIM cards to Italian mobile operator Nòverca for a mobile payments pilot. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments at more than 3,000 point of sale terminals in the northern Italian cities […]

Oberthur Technologies has signed a contract with Société Générale, one of Europe’s largest banks, for the deployment of NFC services in France this year. As per the agreement, Oberthur will provide Société Générale with its trusted service manager (TSM) solution, enabling the bank to issue its payment application to customers using NFC-enabled phones. According to […]