Lloyds TSB has announced the launch of Visa contactless debit cards to its customers in the greater London area, allowing those living within the M25 motorway to make purchases up to GBP15 with a simple tap. According to Lloyds, the continued growth in debit card usage has overtaken cash as the method for high street […]

French payment solutions provider Ingenico has announced that shipments of its contactless payment terminals with NFC technology doubled in 2010. According to Ingenico, 21% of the company’s terminals sold in 2010 were equipped with contactless technology, twice the rate of 2009. Ingenico’s Telium terminals support NFC ISO18092 and are capable of accepting value added services […]

STMicroelectronics and Gemalto announced a partnership to develop digital security services for NFC applications. According to Gemalto, the partnership aims to address the industry’s need for a secure element, such as the widely adopted SIM-based NFC solution, for NFC products. The partners plan to develop a number of packaged solutions that include the ST33 EAL5+ […]

Frost & Sullivan has awarded its 2011 European Customer Value Enhancement Award in NFC Smart Cards Services to France’s Twinlinx for its MyMax NFC sticker solution. MyMax enables users to transform virtually any phone into an NFC handset by simply tagging it with a MyMax NFC sticker. The sticker can be used as a payment […]

The Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), operator of Bangalore, India’s forthcoming Namma Metro system, has finalized its Contactless Smart Card (CSC) transit pass, according to Deccan Chronicle. Once the Namma Metro is up and running, passengers will be able to pay for journeys by simply flashing their CSC in front of a reader upon […]

Launching a brand new campus card program isn’t as easy as signing a contract and cutting a check. There are many steps a schools needs to go through before they even choose a vendor. CR80News asked questions to campus card vendors asking what a school would have to do if starting a campus card program […]

Google is reportedly planning to test contactless mobile payments at stores in New York and San Francisco, says Bloomberg. According to a source close to the project, Google will begin installing thousands NFC-compliant terminals from VeriFone at retail locations throughout the two cities within the next four months. The leak follows Google’s recent introduction of […]

Australian bank ANZ and Visa are launching a joint pilot of contactless payments using DeviceFidelity’s NFC-enabled iPhone case, according to Finextra. The four week pilot will include 50 participants from the companies’ Sydney and Melbourne offices. DeviceFidelity’s case will be outfitted with a microSD memory card containing a pre-paid ANZ account that can be managed […]

Campus cards with debit functionality are catching on among universities, according to this article in Nebraska’s Lexington Clipper-Herald, which calls the card “a must-have accessory.” About 2,000 U.S. campuses now issue such cards, which can be used to purchase books, items from vending machines and almost anything else with a price tag. However, the MavCard […]

GlobalPlatform announced it has completed maintenance work on its Card Specification, Configurations and supporting guidelines, as an update for parties that have previously implemented card technologies or plan to in the future. As part of the review, GlobalPlatform has launched v1.0.1 of its UICC Configuration – the implementation guide for deploying GlobalPlatform Card Specification v2.2 […]