VeriFone introduced the VX 680 terminal to Spanish merchants, enabling full contactless and NFC acceptance – designed to bring new levels of convenience to their customers. The announcement coincides with contactless trials and initiatives from card issuers and banks to drive consumer adoption of ‘wave and pay’ in Spanish cities. Spanish merchants will be able […]

Moneto, the mobile wallet platform from DeviceFidelity and Springcard, is now available on six Android devices from Samsung, including the Galaxy S i9000, Galaxy S 4G, Vibrant, Fascinate, Mesmerize, Showcase, and Epic 4G. Also available on the iPhone, moneto uses DeviceFidelity’s NFC-enabled In2Pay microSD technology to provide users with a prepaid account for contactless mobile […]

A team of researchers at the University Of Pittsburgh Swanson School Of Engineering have developed a design that enables contactless “tap and pay” cards to turn on and off, making them unreadable by would-be thieves. Credit cards with contactless smart card chips operate when they are place in an electromagnetic field, leaving them vulnerable. Using […]

Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile operator, has reportedly issued 300,000 of its T-series NFC-enabled phones to subscribers, according to NFC World. Turkcell’s T11 and T20 phones, along with the BlackBerry Bold 9900, are compatible with Turkcell’s Cep-T Cüzdan mobile wallet, which enables contactless mobile payments, ticketing, loyalty, ID and, most recently, road toll payments. Cep-T Cüzdan […]

NXP Semiconductors has been selected to take part in the implementation of Germany’s nationwide ticketing standard, VDV Kernapplikation (VDV-KA). NXP’s SmartMX family of secure microcontrollers enables an interoperable public transport ticketing scheme. More than five million contactless card based on NXP’s SmartMX technology has been supplied to the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt and Hamburg in […]

The City of York Council has announced plans to introduce a new transit card scheme, according to squidcard.com. The city is set to apply for £2 million in government funding to support the installation of a new electronic transit card system, enabling local residents to pay for their travel by simply holding their card against […]

Collis has announced the availability of its Mobile MasterCard PayPass Test Suite for functional testing of the UICC or Secure Element application based on MasterCard Mobile MasterCard PayPass – M/Chip 4 Technical Specifications. UICC or Secure Element vendors can use the new Test Suite to perform pre-certification on their products, ensuring that the Secure Element […]

Google has begun issuing prepaid cards to Google Wallet again, following a brief suspension last week over PIN security concerns. Osama Bedier, vice president of Google Wallet and Payments, issued this notice last night on the company’s Commerce blog: “Yesterday afternoon, we restored the ability to issue new prepaid cards to the Wallet. In addition, […]

Sybase 365 has announced a partnership with Telefonica Digital to provide mobile wallet services to Telefonica subscribers around the globe. Developed by Sybase 365, the “mWallet” will enable users to store prepaid, debit, credit and loyalty cards for simplified online purchases, peer to peer transfers, and NFC-enabled contactless payments at the point of sale. Telefonica […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) announced that it will provide its Trusted Service Manager (TSM) solution to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for its commercial rollout of NFC contactless payments. According to G&D, Commbank is now giving iPhone 4 and 4S owners the opportunity to transfer their MasterCard PayPass card accounts onto their handsets to make […]