EAT, a 100-store sandwich, soup and coffee shop in the UK, will begin accepting contactless cards by mid-November, following a successful pilot project in 24 of its London stores over the past 18 months. Currently, more than 9,000 outlets accept contactless cards in the UK. Barclaycard and Barclays have issued over four million contactless credit […]

The Westminster City Council has agreed to pilot contactless parking meters starting early next year, when 20 meters that accept contactless credit/debit cards will be deployed in London’s West End. Parkeon is supplying the meters for the three-month trial. Motorists hoping to use the contactless meters will only be allowed to pay for parking worth […]

INSIDE Contactless has agreed to support Discover Zip contactless payment devices with upcoming versions of its MicroPass contactless payment platform. The MicroPass 4002 contactless payment processor is the first Discover-certified implementation on the market. Designed from the ground up for Zip, the 4002 offers card issuers access to a suite of form factors, including chip, […]

ACI Worldwide, a New York-based provider of electronic payments software, has partnered with Dutch company Bell ID to license Bell’s smart card management solutions to financial markets and retailers. ACI intends to market and license the ANDiS product suite that includes a card and application management system. ANDiS supports the life cycle phases of smart […]

INSIDE Contactless and Dynamic Card Solutions are partnering to speed up the deployment of the new breed of contactless cards, such as mobile payment stickers and mobile payment peripheral devices, that will allow banks to be able to instantly personalize and activate the cards or stickers based on INSIDE`s MicroPass contactless and dual interface payment […]

MasterCard PayPass will soon double for a bus ticket in Liverpool as Stagecoach Merseyside rolls out the new payments technology for its 200 buses. The launch is in partnership with RBS WorldPay as well as credit card processing company Commidea. “In the same way that Chip and PIN has revolutionized the way shoppers pay, contactless […]

Even though full commercial deployment of NFC is a ways off–by some estimates several years away–one handset manufacturer well positioned to take advantage of the new technology when it does go mainstream is Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia. Its newest NFC phone, the Nokia 6216 Classic is its first commercial NFC device incorporating the European Telecommunications […]

Oberthur Technologies has choosen Collis as its preferred provider for EMV card personalization validation software. The aim is to standardise a common EMV card personalization validation software across Oberthur’s network. Collis’ EMV Personalization Validation Tool and Collis Personalization Validation for Production are examples of tools that will be implemented across Oberthur’s production facilities. The Collis […]

The European Vending Association has published its cashless position paper which sets out the requirements needed to increase the uptake of contactless payment systems in vending machines. The paper is targeted at credit card and banking institutions. Through this paper, the EVA says it hopes to break the deadlock with banks on transaction costs and […]

INSIDE Contactless has rolled out its MicroPass 6000 dual-interface payment processor designed as an EMV-compliant platform that will offer fast time to market for card manufacturers and issuers. It provides both contact and contactless operations, expanding the company’s multi-brand offerings. The dual-interface platform is designed to meet the high-volume requirements of EMV markets in Europe, […]