Tim Hortons, a Canadian casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts, will offer new contactless payment options to its customer by the end of this year, according to MarketNews. All 3,000 outlets will be equipped with Interac Association’s Flash-enabled terminals, with the majority of these installations already completed. The new contactless payment system will […]

Arcontia International, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has been selected by LECIP, Inc. for a smart card based fare collection solution, including cashless ticket vending machines and contactless smart card readers. LECIP and the City of Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) inked a deal worth more than $7 million […]

SMARTRAC announced production of NFC tags at 50 micrometers, reportedly making it one of the thinnest RFID transponder to date. Typically rendered at 120 µm, SMARTRAC has drastically cut the standard RFID transponder thickness, and is able to make Infineon my-d NFC chip wafers down to 50 micrometers for flip chip assembly. Once assembled, the […]

EMVCo, the EMV standards organization owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, has added eight new members to its Associates Programme this year. The eight members include Cubic Transportation Systems Limited, Equinox Payments, FIME, Planet Media and Nationz Technologies, who have joined as Technical Associates. ANZ and Vantiv have joined the program as Business […]

The latest installment of MasterCard’s Mobile Payments Readiness Index was has been released and will be on display at Sibos in Osaka, Japan. According to a release on MasterCard’s website, the readiness index analyzed 34 countries, assessing their readiness to incorporate and use three types of mobile payments— person-to-person, mobile web commerce and mobile contactless […]

Trimble introduced its next-generation ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID reader module, designed to be embedded into a wide variety of handheld, portable and stationary devices throughout commercial, industrial and consumer markets. The size and powerful performance of the Mercury6e-Micro (M6e-Micro) offers users increased efficiency, reduced development costs and time-to-market advantages for RFID applications. Only 46 mm […]

MasterCard announced it has partnered with Dutch banks ABN AMRO and ING to launch contactless cards enabled with Maestro PayPass in the Netherlands by mid-2013. Maestro PayPass offers consumers fast and convenient payment options while shopping, benefiting both the consumer and the merchant by reducing checkout time. PayPass users are able to tap their contactless […]