Bling Nation has temporarily shut down its mobile payments service in order to roll out a new product later this year, reports American Banker. Since 2009, the Palo Alto-based company has been providing its NFC sticker in areas deemed “underserved” by major card companies. By affixing the NFC stickers to their mobile phones, customers could […]

MasterCard and ANZ have launched a pilot that will introduce NFC-enabled mobile payments to retail locations across New Zealand. The trial involves a select group of ANZ staff equipped with either a contactless PayPass sticker or a microSD memory card, which can be coupled with a mobile phone to enable MasterCard PayPass payments. According to […]

NXP Semiconductors’ CEO Richard Clemmer says the company expects to double its sales of NFC chips through 2012 and 2013, thanks to its involvement in the Google Wallet project, according to Totaltele.com. Google chose NXP to provide the NFC chips for its new Wallet service, which will enable Android users to make mobile contactless payments […]

Barclaycard has come out with a new TV ad campaign for its Quick Tap contactless mobile payment service with Orange, reports Marketingmagazine.co.uk. The new promotion is a slightly different take on Barclaycard’s other ‘rollercoaster’ advert, in which the mobile phone is substituted for a contactless credit card. Unveiled last month, Quick Tap allows UK consumers […]

Juniper Research has released a new report predicting that NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014, with North America and Western Europe accounting for 50% of the market. The research company sees 2011 and 2012 as “banner years” for the roll out of NFC services, with the recent UK […]

SCM Microsystems has announced the launch of its SCM3712 NFC reader module, a compact add-on designed to enable NFC functionality for a wide range of commercial devices, such as handheld card readers, POS terminals and vending machines. According to SCM, the reader module plugs into an existing device via USB to make it NFC ready […]

Automated transaction systems provider JCM Global and Techfirm, a developer of contactless mobile phone applications, are teaming up to develop a mobile payments solution for bill validators. The partners have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a system that will enable consumers to use their mobile phones to make contactless purchases at automated […]

Verifone is betting on the success of NFC-based mobile payments and hopes to see a huge potential revenue influx. Google Wallet, a major player in the NFC space announced trials of its technology are going on in San Francisco and New York. Verifone stands to make money from its point-of-sales systems and upgrading existing terminals […]

Telecom service provider Elephant Talk is launching a mobile wallet platform that will help Apple, Google, Isis and other companies manage the billions of transactions made over their forthcoming mobile payments services, reports Seeking Alpha. Due out later this year, the plug-and-play service will feature fully-integrated NFC technology, allowing mobile operators to offer contactless mobile […]

CARTES & Identification will take place this year from November 15 -17th at the Parc des Expositions exhibition center in Paris. The conference will feature Turkey as the guest country this year. The country is rolling out near field communication, a national ID card with an EMV application and other advanced ID applications.