The Peninsula Taxi Association (PTA) in South Africa has launched a electronic fare collection system, granting commuters cashless fare and discounts when using the newly developed contactless-enabled transit card, according to The Cape Times. Together with DigiCore and Absa Bank, the PTA has installed the EMV compliant system – dubbed Tap-I-Fare – into more than […]

Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s head of Emerging Payments, has some good news for those waiting on NFC-enabled phones for contactless payments. In an interview with Fast Company, McLaughlin said that he didn’t know of a handset maker who wasn’t working on integrating support for PayPass contactless payments. When pressed by FC about whether this statement included […]

MasterCard and Commonwealth Bank have announced the launch of a QkR, a new mobile app that enables movie theater goers to browse and purchase refreshments from their seats. The app (pronounced “quicker”) is now being piloted at Australian cinema chain Hoyts at multiple La Premiere theaters around Sydney. Each La Premiere seat armrest contains an […]

SHAZAM, a member-owned and -controlled EFT network and processor, has chosen Adaptive Payments’ Pentagon mobile POS payments application. With the Pentagon platform, merchants can accept PIN debit, signature debit and credit transactions from iPhone and Android phones and tablets. Pentagon uses Adaptive Payments’ 5DSecure five factor-dual channel authentication technology for PIN debit transactional authentication by […]

Barnes International announced that its updated Visa GPR Test module now complies with the latest version of Visa’s Global Personalization Requirements. The updated test tool will offer evaluation of a chip product to ensure it meets industry and payment scheme certification standards. This reduces a product’s time to market as the chip is aligned to […]

Visa made waves in August when it unveiled a road map to move the U.S. to EMV and then again in January when the company said that the country’s deployment wouldn’t be chip and PIN. Stephanie Ericksen, head of Authentication Product Integration at Visa USA, talks to Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the move and […]

CARTES in North America, a new annual card manufacturing, payment, identification and digital security expo and conference, has placed mobile payments at the center of its agenda of this year’s inaugural event. Held March 5-7, 2012 in Las Vegas, CARTES will focus on determining what combination of technology convergence, business partnerships and consumer acceptance points […]

The Pinellas County School Board District in Clearwater, Fla. has paired up with technology provider Fujitsu Frontech North America to provide a reliable and secure method of handling school food service program transactions. With more than 102,000 students, the district is the seventh largest in the state and the 24th largest in the nation. Efficiently […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its MIFARE DESFire EV1 platform has been selected to manage the automated fare collection of the newly opened metro in the Indian city of Bengaluru, formally known as Bangalore. The Namma Metro – the third metro to be opened in India after the Kolkata and the Delhi Metros – will be […]

Office Depot has joined Home Depot as the second U.S. retailer to test PayPal’s point of sale payments solution, according to TG Daily. Customers at select Office Depot stores can now make payments directly from their PayPal balance by simply punching in their mobile phone number and PayPal PIN. The solution requires only a software […]