The City Council of Plymouth, UK is implementing a contactless payment system in three of its parking lots, according to TransportXtra. The Council has chosen Parkeon’s Strada pay & display (P&D) contactless terminals for the new system, and will also replace 38 on-street P&D terminals with solar-powered Stradas. “The addition of contactless payment card facilities […]

New research from Barclays and Barclaycard shows that Britons are fed up with waiting in line, with two-fifths of customers refusing to queue for longer than two minutes and two-thirds regularly abandoning purchases. According to the poll of 2,000 shoppers, 51% of customers refuse to even enter a store if there’s a long line. To […]

Visa is teaming with Turkey’s Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch a new microSD-based contactless mobile payment system. Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD into their handsets’ memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals. The project will initially involve Blackberry handsets, […]

Australia’s Tourism and Transport Forum has announced its intentions to roll out a contacltess ticketing system in Sydney modeled after Southeast Queensland’s Go Card system, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. “Our research has found that when it comes to integrated smart card ticketing in Australia, the Go Card is the best there is, and […]

MasterCard’s stock dropped 3.6% on the recent announcement Verizon and AT&T are partnering with Discover and Barclays to launch mobile contactless payment services, but the company says it has its own ventures in diversified payments. According to Ajay Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard, the company currently has 20 pilot and commercial roll outs of […]

Duke University launched a mobile application for iPhones that enables students to find out news around campus, the closest dining hall and hours of operations. The university also wanted to add some campus card functionality to the app as well, says Matthew Drummond, director at the DukeCard Office. “We wanted to provide a campus card […]

BNP Paribas has announced the launch of its Platinum MasterCard PayPass contactless credit card in Egypt, making it the first bank in the country to introduce contactless payment cards. According to Magdy Hassan, vice president of MasterCard Worldwide in Egypt, the new cards are designed to provide a secure alternative to paper-based payments for travelers […]

Oberthur Technologies has reported an increase in demand for its FlyBuy contactless stickers with banks and issuers throughout the United States, including Citi, as well as internationally in Switzerland, Poland, England and Korea. Developed in cooperation with MasterCard Worldwide over a year ago, Oberthur’s FlyBuy Sticker is a contactless payment tag that can be attached […]

Northern Michigan University has selected Wells Fargo as the new financial services provider for the Wildcat Express Card, the university’s official campus ID card. Beginning this fall, NMU students and faculty will be able to link their Wildcat Express Cards to their Wells Fargo checking and savings account for ATM and PIN debit card access. […]

Singapore-based electronic payments provider Nets and Nera Telecommunications Ltd announced that they have implemented a completely cashless payment service on Singapore’s Plus1 buses. Under the new system, commuters will have to pay using only contactless NETS FlashPay cards. Bus drivers will no longer accept cash and will not be provided with cash boxes on their […]