American Express has announced that it is adding its Consumer, Open Small Business and Serve cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet platform. American Express now joins Chase, Capitol One and BarclayCard in enabling its card holders to make NFC payments and collect rewards using an Isis-enabled mobile phone. “Now our card members and merchants can […]

South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB) has added a new feature to its mobile app that enables users to make peer-to-peer payments via GPS technology. The new “GeoPayments” service leverages a smart phone’s embedded GPS chip to connect FNB banking app users up to 500 meters apart, enabling them to wirelessly send and receive funds […]

VeriFone Systems has unveiled its new Sail mobile point of sale solution for merchants who want to accept NFC and EMV payments on their mobile phones or tablets. Like with Square’s mobile point of sale reader, the Sail device plugs directly into the headphone jack of an iOS or Android mobile phone. Sail can also […]

Mobile operator 2degrees has partnered with contactless transit card provider Snapper to bring NFC payments to the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The new “Touch2Pay” service is now available on 2degrees’ LG Optimus Net phones, which can be used to make tap and go payments wherever Snapper cards are accepted, including buses, taxis, shops and […]

Samsung and Visa are providing their sponsored athletes and trialists at the London 2012 Olympic Games with special edition Samsung Galaxy S III handsets equipped with Visa’s payWave NFC payments application. According to Visa, the Olympic handsets will enable athletes to make contactless mobile payments at thousands of retailers around London with just a tap […]

MasterCard has announced PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners that will enable customers to make purchases in stores or online using a smart phone or tablet. PayPass Wallet Services includes three distinct components: PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless), PayPass Wallet and PayPass API. PayPass Acceptance Network […]

NFC payment solutions provider DeviceFidelity has expanded its management team with the hiring of Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb as vice president of Product Management and Philippe Martineau as vice president of Business Development. Based out of Aix-en-Provence, France, Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb comes to DeviceFidelity from Sandisk where he was the director of Marketing for Mobile Solutions, in charge […]

Auriemma Consulting Group is set to launch a comprehensive consumer study on the future of the mobile wallet. The study comprises an overview of the current state of the UK mobile wallet space and attempts to answer “What comes next?” after launch. To determine the next stage of the mobile wallet, the study examines the […]

Singapore, Canada, the United States, Kenya and South Korea have topped MasterCard’s newly released Mobile Payments Readiness Index (MPRI), an analysis of 34 countries and their readiness to use three types of mobile payments: person to person, mobile Web commerce and NFC-enabled mobile contactless payments at the point of sale. According to MasterCard, each market […]

BlackBerry smart phones account for 80% of NFC-enabled phones in the UK, according to RIM senior director of sales and operations, Gerry Kelliher “Eighty percent of mobile devices with NFC sold through retail in Q1 2012 were [Blackberry] NFC devices, compared to 72 percent in 2011,” Kelliher told The Inquirer. “We’ve shipped devices from last […]