MasterCard and Telefonica have named their mobile payments joint venture in Latin America “Wanda.” According to MasterCard, Wanda was created to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in 12 markets in Latin America, providing mobile payment solutions to the more than 87 million Movistar customers. These mobile payment services will be linked to a […]

Online payments provider Boku has teamed up with MasterCard to launch Boku Accounts – a new mobile service that enables customers to make NFC payments anywhere MasterCard PayPass is accepted. Offered through a mobile subscriber’s mobile network operator, Boku Accounts also enables merchants to create loyalty programs as well as send targeted offers to customers via […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that six NFC service providers will showcase their solutions at NXP’s Mobile World Congress booth next week in Barcelona. Foursquare, DeviceFidelity and several others will gather at NXP’s “NFC concept café” to demonstrate NFC solutions powered by NXP’s mobile NFC technology, NFC tags, and contactless readers. First up, Touchanote works together with […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced that it is supplying NFC-enabled SIM cards to Italian mobile operator Nòverca for a mobile payments pilot. Six hundred employees and customers of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo can now use their mobile phones to make contactless payments at more than 3,000 point of sale terminals in the northern Italian cities […]

Oberthur Technologies has signed a contract with Société Générale, one of Europe’s largest banks, for the deployment of NFC services in France this year. As per the agreement, Oberthur will provide Société Générale with its trusted service manager (TSM) solution, enabling the bank to issue its payment application to customers using NFC-enabled phones. According to […]

GlobalPlatform announced that it will align its Compliance Program for validating secure elements with the mobile payments certification structure of EMVCo, the EMV standards body owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa. Launched in 2011, GlobalPlatform’s Compliance Program confirms that a secure element will perform as outlined in the GlobalPlatform Specifications. According to GP, […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that SMARTRAC has joined the OSPT Alliance as a full member. As the newest member, SMARTRAC will participate in the Alliance’s activities around the development of next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the CIPURSE open security standard. The CIPURSE open security standard addresses the need […]

VeriFone introduced the VX 680 terminal to Spanish merchants, enabling full contactless and NFC acceptance – designed to bring new levels of convenience to their customers. The announcement coincides with contactless trials and initiatives from card issuers and banks to drive consumer adoption of ‘wave and pay’ in Spanish cities. Spanish merchants will be able […]

Moneto, the mobile wallet platform from DeviceFidelity and Springcard, is now available on six Android devices from Samsung, including the Galaxy S i9000, Galaxy S 4G, Vibrant, Fascinate, Mesmerize, Showcase, and Epic 4G. Also available on the iPhone, moneto uses DeviceFidelity’s NFC-enabled In2Pay microSD technology to provide users with a prepaid account for contactless mobile […]

A team of researchers at the University Of Pittsburgh Swanson School Of Engineering have developed a design that enables contactless “tap and pay” cards to turn on and off, making them unreadable by would-be thieves. Credit cards with contactless smart card chips operate when they are place in an electromagnetic field, leaving them vulnerable. Using […]