DeviceFidelity announced that its In2Pay iCaisse4 has become the first NFC payments solution for iPhone to be certified for commercial deployment with MasterCard Mobile PayPass. The iCaisse4, a protective case for the iPhone 4/4S that enables NFC via microSD, can now be issued by banks or wireless operators in conjunction with MasterCard certified mobile wallet […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to lock the gates and turnstiles at dozens of subway stops to force people into using their prepaid TAP (Transit Access Pass) card, according to a local news report. For nineteen years the Metro has been an honor system for both gates and fares. “We found a […]

Orange, mobile network operator and internet service provider, is launching a UK mobile contactless retail reward scheme in partnership with the EAT café chain, according to Mobile Magazine. Customers using supported, NFC-enabled handsets are able scan specially-designed posters that activates a game on their device for a chance to win a “Quick Tap Treat.” The […]

There’s recently been a lot of talk about EMV in the U.S. When will it be viable? Will merchants make the change? One of the least discussed, but just as important is “how do we get people to start using it,” according to MobileWaytoPay.com. The comfort level of users will play a major role in […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that SMARTRAC has joined the OSPT Alliance as a full member. As the newest member, SMARTRAC will participate in the Alliance’s activities around the development of next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE open security standard. The CIPURSE open security standard addresses the need […]