Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has developed a new mobile app that lets customers use their phones to tap and pay at the point of sale, as well as make peer-to-peer payments via email, contact info and even through Facebook. Built for Apple iPhone users, “Commbank Kaching” works in tandem with Wireless Dynamics’ attachable iCarte NFC module […]

Oberthur Technologies, Visa Europe and Valitor have announced a partnership to launch Iceland’s first mobile contactless payment project. The partners will initially outfit some 1,000 select participants with Oberthur’s NFC-enable SIM card, which will be delivered through Iceland’s major mobile operators starting in January 2012. Participants will be able to load the SIM into their […]

Students in Cabell County middle and high schools will soon be paying for their meals using fingerprint scanning technology, according to The Herald-Dispatch. Cabell County joins other counties in West Virginia already using the technology in an effort to improve the speed and accuracy of school breakfast and lunch lines. The county sent out letters […]

Charity organization SOS Children’s Villages is teaming up with Paystream to provide a contactless payment solution to improve food distribution in drought-stricken Northern Kenya. The service, developed in part by sQuid, will provide the people of Marsabit, Kenya with contactless cards that can be used to purchase food supplies and other aid at several local […]

PayPal is preparing to introduce a new payment card that can store information about multiple accounts, reports Bank Technology News. The magnetic stripe card will only display the PayPal logo and won’t contain the holder’s name or account number. A tokenization process accesses account information through a code, negating the need for an account number. […]

New Jersey Transit has become the first public transport agency to adopt Google Wallet mobile contactless payments, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie announced. Google Wallet, which hit multiple stores around the country this week, can now be used to purchase transportation tickets at New York Penn Station ticket vending machines and ticket windows, Newark Liberty International […]

Dynamics Inc.’s next generation magnetic stripe technology took Best of Show honors at the 2011 BAI Retail Delivery conference, held Oct. 10 to 13 in Chicago. Dynamics’ new technology allows for full card-programmable magnetic stripes. Cards include buttons that allow consumers to choose method of payment at point of sale. Users may choose from different […]

MasterCard Australia has announced that more than 1 million contactless PayPass transactions were recorded during the month of August. According to Insider Retailing, this marks the first time that PayPass “Tap and Go” payments have surpassed the 1 million transaction milestone since the technology was introduced in Australia several years ago, indicating growing acceptance of […]

Datacard Group has announced that it will host a seminar to educate bank executives, financial card issuers, acquirers, service bureaus and retailers on EMV technology and NFC adoption in the U.S. marketplace. This three-hour seminar is part of Datacard Group’s EMV technology educational series led by industry expert Guy Berg. According to Datacard, seminar attendees […]

Google has announced that The Container Store, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy’s, OfficeMax and Toys’R’Us have joined American Eagle in rolling out the full Google Wallet ‘SingleTap’ solution. According to Google, shoppers at these locations can now pay for items, redeem coupons and earn rewards points all with a single tap of their NFC-enabled […]