Gartner has released a new report naming the Asia-Pacific region as the leading market for mobile payment adoption, with the number of users in the region predicted to increase by 50% from 41.8 million last year to 62.8 million by the end of 2010, according to ZDNet Asia. Gartner also expects the number mobile payment […]

LEGIC has announced the release of a new contactless locking system, as well as a new partnership with Magna Carta, the Netherland’s largest cashless vendor. Magna Carta is a global supplier of contactless identification solutions for the education, health care, leisure, government and business environment, working in applications such as catering, vending, access control, ticketing, […]

Ingenico and Bank Asya are partnering to deploy contactless payment terminals in taxi cabs at the Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. For the upcoming pilot, Bank Aysa will supply 114 taxi cabs with Ingenico’s EFT930 GPRS Mobile Terminals, allowing customers to pay for fares with contactless credit or debit cards, as well as traditional […]

Dubai’s Simage Technologies has unveiled its new contactless terminal, a multi-function device designed for use in financial services, the public sector, transportation and mobile communications. The compact, portable contactless terminal features a touchpad screen, printer and multi-biometrics support for user authentication, and supports ISO 14443 Type A/B standards as well as the ISO 21481 standard […]

TazTag has announced the launch of its new TazBox , a device designed to give users the ability to use contactless technology in the home or office. The new product contains the infrastructure needed to use all NFC-enabled devices such as smart phones or the TazTag’s own TazCard, as well as next-gen loyalty and payment […]

MasterCard PayPass stickers, now available for Citi credit cards can be affixed to the back of any mobile device and used to make contactless payments at merchants that accept PayPass transactions. Citi’s contactless MasterCard PayPass sticker is supplied by Oberthur Technologies. In early summer, Citi will roll out a PayPass locator app that searches and […]

Valley National Bank, a community bank with branches in Kansas and Colorado, is offering mobile payments to its customers and community with Bling Nation. Customers with a checking account at Valley National Bank can sign up for a BlingTag, a quarter-sized microchip sticker that adheres to the back of their mobile phone to enable debit […]

Banks are placing excessive levies on retailers who accept payment via plastic and the new UK government should intervene, says British Retail Consortium director general Stephen Robertson. “There is no justification for such big differences in charges between cards and cash. Contactless systems can bring benefits, but banks are currently levying charges on card payments […]

Cubic Transportation Systems, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has begun installing Clipper card reader technology on fare boxes, gates and ticketing machines in the San Francisco Bay Area transportation network. Clipper cards, which were officially launched on June 16, allow Bay Area riders to pay for any type of public transportation, including buses, trains and […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its contactless microcontroller IC, MIFARE Plus, has been adopted by the Turkish highway card-based automated toll program, Kartlı Geçiş Sistemi (KGS). This rollout, implemented by the Turkish system integrator Aselsan, will see NXP supplying over two million MIFARE Plus chips for the program annually. According to NXP, MIFARE Plus enables system […]