Barclays Bank PLC announced that the Barclaycard Wireless Festival 2012 is to be fully contactless enabled, giving attendees the ability to enjoy the experience without having to carry cash. All vendors at the festival will accept contactless payments, allowing festival-goers to spend less time queuing and more time listening to music. All forms of contactless […]

Canada’s banking and credit union groups have come together to create a set of open guidelines for the development of mobile payments at point-of-sale in Canada. This “Mobile Reference Model” will serve as a blueprint for how mobile payment capabilities can be offered in the Canadian market, including guidelines on how financial information is exchanged […]

Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, has revealed the first of its local merchant partners across Austin and Salt Lake City. Aéropostale, The Coca-Cola Company, Champs Sports, Dillard’s, Foot Locker, Jamba Juice and Macy’s have joined Isis as national partners, along with a number of local grocery stores, retailers, […]

Mobey Forum, a bank-led mobile commerce association, has announced that it is now participating in the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Industry Liaison Program in order to enhance the development of security standards in mobile financial services. The partnership will enable Mobey Forum and the TCG to share members’ security requirements and use this combined knowledge […]

Missouri State University has selected Blackboard Transact to implement a contactless student ID card. This enables the new system to integrate student identification, door security, commerce and campus payment into a single contactless card. The new BearPass ID card uses Sony’s FeliCa contactless technology and works with Blackboard-enabled smart card readers–which also support magnetic stripe […]

Mobile operator Digicel Pacific Limited has announced the deployment of VeriFone’s mWallet services and NFC-enabled payment systems in the Kingdom of Tonga. Starting this week, Digicel subscribers in the the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa will be able to receive NFC tags that are linked to their mobile phone numbers and VeriFone’s contactless payment acceptance systems. Customers […]

HSBC announced that it will begin the conversion to contactless technology this month, replacing all customer banking debit cards, according to ThinkMoney.com. The bank will start to roll out the new contactless cards to existing customers whose debit cards are due to expire this month and then continue the process as cards expire. Customers who […]

Virgin Mobile has set a May 15 launch date for the LG Optimus Elite, the first device in the operator’s lineup to feature NFC and Google Wallet. Debuted by Sprint last month, the Optimus Elite runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and features a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, 800 MHz processor and 5MP rear-facing camera. With […]

Startup iCache has developed a mobile wallet solution for the iPhone that enables users consolidate all of their payment, loyalty and membership cards onto one smart card. The protective Geode case, priced at $199, features a magnetic stripe reader that enables users to input their payment card info on the free Geode app. From there, […]

American Express has announced that it is adding its Consumer, Open Small Business and Serve cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet platform. American Express now joins Chase, Capitol One and BarclayCard in enabling its card holders to make NFC payments and collect rewards using an Isis-enabled mobile phone. “Now our card members and merchants can […]