Google has launched Beba, an NFC-enabled payment card, in Kenya to allow transit passengers to pay their bus fare without having to use cash The new card will enable passengers to simply step onto the bus, tap the Beba card on the conductor’s NFC-enabled Smartphone, and instantly debit the fare. A receipt is also sent […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that guidelines and testing process information are now available for member developers looking to accelerate time to market for their CIPURSE-based solutions. As an open standard, CIPURSE promotes vendor neutrality and cross-vendor system interoperability. The OSPT Alliance offers the CIPURSE open security standard to address transit […]

A new smart transit card system is set to launch in East Surrey, making it easier and quicker for passengers to buy and use tickets. Railway stations are already being equipped with the card reading technology that will be needed when the system comes online later this year. Redhill station is the first to be […]

Upgrades begin across UK retailers and vending machines to raise the contactless card payment limit to £20 from £15. According to StockMarketWire.com, there are approximately 23 million contactless cards in the UK, giving customers a quick and easy alternative to using cash. Customers simply pay by holding their card up to a reader for transactions […]

The rapid roll out of contactless credit cards and NFC-enabled mobile payments in Canada will challenge cash’s dominance by 2016, according to Research and Markets’ new report, “Canadian Payments Forecast – 2012.” According to the report, contactless payments are likely to account for “significant” transaction volumes and values by 2016, with mobile payments following close […]

Gemalto announced that “la Caixa,” one of Spain’s largest retail banks, is deploying Optelio contactless EMV cards as part of the country’s large scale deployment of contactless payments. The Gemalto card will enable “la Caixa’s” 10.4 million customers the speed and convenience of contactless transactions, enabling them wave or tap the card at the reader […]

Post Office Ltd is making good on its promise to roll out contactless payment terminals across its 11,500 branches network, according to guardian.co.uk. On June 6, the UK Post Office will introduce contactless payment terminals enabling customers to pay for goods by waving their contactless credit and debit cards and payment-enabled mobile phones over the […]

FirstGroup, a UK bus and rail operator, is moving forward with its planned introduction of a smart card ticket system in the town of Bristol, according to a local news brief. The new technology will offer customers touch-in and touch-out contactless payment using their contactless bank cards. This will reduce cash transactions and boarding times, […]

Transport for London (TfL) has hit a speed bump on its plan to implement contactless “wave and pay” technology across its transport network, according to Computerworld UK. The transport originally made plans in October 2010 to introduce contactless payments ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games this summer. However, due to “complexities with the technology” […]

Vantiv is now offering Ingenico’s NFC and EMV-enabled Telium series point-of-sale products to its financial institutions and merchant customers in the U.S. The Telium readers, which are equipped with Vantiv’s own point-to-point card data encryption solution (P2PE), will help the Vantiv’s U.S. clients make the jump to EMV chip-based and NFC mobile payments, according to […]