Ingenico will release its new iWL200 series of contactless portable payment terminals at the Cartes 2010 trade show in Paris. Compliant with PCI PTS v2 security standards for contact transactions or PayPass and payWave for contactless, the iWL200 range (iWL220, iWL250 and iWL280) is equipped with several card readers, including swipe, chip and contactless, as […]

Discover Card announced that it has begun issuing Zip contactless credit cards and stickers to its customers. Discover’s Zip is a new payment solution that enables consumers to simply touch a payment device – in the form of either a plastic card or a sticker that can be attached to a mobile phone or any […]

Coca-Cola has hooked up with European payments specialist PingPing to upgrade its vending machines in Belgium and Luxembourg to accept NFC mobile payment, according to thenextweb.com. The new feature, to be in place by the end of the year, will allow customers to pay for drinks by simply passing a mobile phone equipped with an […]

Some 1, 000 DBS customers with StarHub mobile plans will be the first in Singapore to use the near field communications for mobile payments. The trial will begin in December 2010 and will last for eight months. The project, which was collaboratively organized by DBS Bank, EZ-Link, Gemalto, MasterCard and StarHub, will involve adding an […]

NXP Semiconductors and Gemalto have entered a licensing agreement allowing Gemalto to integrate MIFARE into its universal integrated circuit cards (UICCs), the smart card used in mobile terminals in GSM and UMTS networks. According to NXP, the partnership’s main purpose is to encourage the use of NFC mobile devices in the MIFARE infrastructure, therefore accelerating […]

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is launching a platform for mobile payment services that will have customers making contactless transactions with their phones by 2012, according to futuregov.asia. In the IDA’s own words, the project will deliver “a secure, interoperable and scalable NFC infrastructure that provides an open and cost effective means for […]

Greenstone Energy, owner of New Zealand’s BP and Shell stations, is looking at a contactless upgrade that would allow drivers to pay for up to $60USD of fuel with a tap of a contactless credit card, according to stuff.co.nz. Greenstone’s move coincides with a mass migration towards contactless payment techonlogy in New Zealand as the […]

ReportLinker has launched a new report, “Payment Cards in China,” providing statistics on China’s market size, competitor market shares and forecasts. The report also features an overview of regulation, competitor activities, issuer strategy and product innovation, including developments in contactless, mobile payments, online and prepaid cards. The report specifically addresses which card segments are showing […]

Bank of America has announced plans to issue contactless stickers to its credit and debit card customers next year, according to American Banker. The new stickers can be attached to mobile phones and other device to enable contactless mobile payment at the point of sale. The bank also announced that it will begin issuing contactless […]

DeviceFidelity announced that its microSD based In2Pay technology for plug and play mobile contactless transactions is now available for the Android mobile phone operating system. Already available for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows and Symbian platforms, In2Pay features integrated support for mass personalization, Trusted Services Management (TSM) and multi-application mobile wallet software. According to DeviceFidelity, Android is […]