ASEC, subsidiary of On Track Innovations, and SIX Pay have begun testing new contactless ticket vending machines in Warsaw’s metro system. The ticket machines, which are located both in the subway stations and in surrounding urban areas, will accept MasterCard PayPass credit and debit cards. Sebastian Krzyk, chief of the Acceptance Network Department of the […]

Dutch-based convenience store chain Spar has announced plans to roll out a new contactless payment system, according to retailmoves.com. The system, called SPARPoS, will enable customers to make purchases of up to £15 with contactless debit or credit cards. Spar has chosen Business Computer Projects to help develop the technology for the system, which the […]

Japanese mobile service provider KDDI has chosen Gemalto to provide its User Identity Module (UIM) cards and Trusted Service Management (TSM) solution for an upcoming NFC pilot. From May to December 2010, participants in the pilot will be able to use various types of NFC services ranging from mobile payments, transportation services, e-driver licenses, e-ticketing, […]

Dutch bank ABN AMRO is piloting MasterCard’s Maestro PayPass contactless payment technology, according to The Financial. Maestro will allow ABN AMRO customers to make cashless card payments of up to EUR 25 without entering a PIN. The Financial says that the current trial will be followed by an internal pilot among the bank’s employees in […]

Citibank has begun offering customers contactless stickers that can turn mobile phones into payment devices, says finextra.com. The stickers link directly to the user’s Citi credit card account to perform purchases of up to $50 at MasterCard PayPass points of sale. The stickers, provided by Oberthur Technologies, are available on request via Citi’s Website. Read […]

Polish mobile operator PTC has partnered with Inteligo bank and MasterCard to launch the first NFC payment pilot in Poland. The trial, which launched on May 20, will run for 4 months with 100 selected PTC & Inteligo customers, VIPs and journalists. Trial participants can make payments using a Samsung S5230N NFC phone in various […]

Listen to Buckwheat Zydeco and make contactless payments using a card with Paula Deen’s image on it? Believe it or not it is all possible during the Great American Food & Music Fest at the new Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ (June 13) and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA (June 26). Fans can purchase […]

The city of Regina, Saskatchewan is planning to install new smart card fare boxes on city buses, according to The Leader-Post. Transit officials hope to have the new fare boxes in place by November, which will accept both cash and new contactless ‘R’ cards. The R cards can be loaded with cash, tickets and/or passes, […]

Innovision Research & Technology has made version two of its GEM NFC semiconductor technology available for licensing. GEM 2 is designed to enable NFC devices and global NFC interoperability with existing and emerging standards for contactless payment, mass transit ticketing, access control and smart objects, including ISO/IEC 18092, 21481, 14443A&B, and 15693. According to IR&T, […]

Deutsche Post DHL is now offering its customers a new bio-sourced payment card from Gemalto that can be used to pay for the mailing of letters and packages and for express deliveries. The new POSTCARDS GOGREEN are made from a renewable material derived from corn, sugarcane and potato starch, and have the same physical format […]