Market research firm IHS iSuppli is predicting an increase in NFC phones shipped this year after ISIS’s announcement that it will work with more partners, including Visa and MasterCard, reports Intomobile.com. Originally planned to leverage Discover’s payments infrastructure, the NFC m-payments joint venture formed last year by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile now says it is […]

In a recent survey, MasterCard has has found that a majority of U.S. consumers aged 18-34 are ready for contactless mobile payments. Some 63% of respondents aged 18-34 agreed they “would be at ease” using mobile phones to make purchases, compared to only 37% of those age 35 or older. Additionally, 65% of 18-34 year […]

Orange and Barclaycard have announced the launch of Quick Tap, the UK’s first contactless mobile payment service for merchants and consumers. Consumers can simply tap their mobile phone on a contactless reader to pay for purchases of £15 or less at over 50,000 nationwide locations, including Pret a Manger, EAT., Little Chef, Wembley Arena, Subway, […]

VeriFone and MICROS Systems have teamed up to develop a new solution that enables restaurant goers to pay at the table with NFC-enabled phones. According to the partners, this is the first practical service allowing restaurants to accommodate NFC payment and rewards technology. The new system combines VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile Enterprise POS system, which adapts […]

Slated for launch in 2012, ISIS will aim to bring contactless mobile payments to the majority of American cell phone users. So, how exactly will it work? Forbes, which was recently privy to a sneak preview, examines the nuts and bolts of the exciting new service: According to Forbes, the ISIS app will come preloaded […]

Westpac, one of Australia’s four major banks, has announced it will run an internal trial of contactless mobile payments, according to ITnews.com.au. Set to kick off later this month, the trial will involve the use of NFC stickers that will enabled contactless payments on Westpac employees’ mobile phones. Westpac declined to give further details about […]

Lloyds TSB has joined Visa as an issuance partner for Samsung’s NFC-enabled Olympic and Paralympic Games mobile handset. The Olympic handsets will be linked to Lloyds TSB accounts, enabling customers to make contactless mobile purchases at thousands of locations in London during the 2012 Games. To make payments, customers simply select the Visa mobile contactless […]

According to an online poll released by marketing firm Acxiom, one in five mobile users in the UK are ready to embrace NFC. The poll also showed that females would use the service to mostly collect coupons, and married couples 45-54 in age would be most likely to pay via NFC. The results suggest that […]

Solacia, a Korean mobile embedded software developer, has achieved Common Criteria certification for its NFC-enabled universal subscriber identity module (USIM), according to Etnews.co.kr. The international standard for computer security certification, Common Criteria is designed to ensure that the process of specification, implementation and evaluation of a computer security product has been conducted in a rigorous […]

PayPal will have a leg up on the competition as mobile payment systems roll out around the world. According to market research firm GfK, recent surveys suggest that in nine top world markets the brand is the most trusted by consumers. With the advent of NFC technology and the onslaught of Android phones coming to […]