Simply providing consumers with mobile wallet technology will not be sufficient to drive mass-market adoption, asserts Mobey Forum in a new white paper. In “Mobile Wallet – Definition and Vision,” the bank-led mobile industry association advocates taking a “holistic” approach to driving adoption, centered on innovations in mobile marketing. Mobey Forum says it is also […]

Visa is teaming up with MTN Group, a teleco operating in Africa and the Middle East, to offer a new mobile prepaid account service that will provide secure financial services and electronic payments to unbanked consumers in developing countries. Visa’s new product will enable MTN Mobile Money account holders to send funds to each other, […]

NXP Semiconductors has announced the launch its new CLRC663 contactless reader IC. Designed to meet the market need for higher integration, smaller housings and interoperability, the CLRC663 has been designed for use in a variety of infrastructure use cases such as banking, eGovernment, transport and mobile payment. According to NXP, the IC supports all 13.56-MHz […]

Raisonance, a smart card test tool provider based in France, has developed a new hand-held communication analyzer for smart card and NFC systems. Dubbed “NomadLAB,” the device is designed to enable system designers and software developers to quickly identify problems occurring in smart card or NFC systems, either in the lab or in the field. […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has received certification from MasterCard for its Canadian TSM (Trusted Service Manager) hub in Toronto. With an existing MasterCard-certified TSM hub in Munich, G&D is now positioned to offer commercial TSM services at two sites globally, enabling customers in those areas to securely provide mobile payment solutions on NFC-enabled mobile phones. […]

The Southeaster Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has voted to award a contract of up to $129.5 million to ACS Transport Solutions Group for the installation of a new contactless open fare system. According to SEPTA, the new system will replace current tokens, paper tickets and magnetic stripe passes with bank cards, smart ID’s, NFC-enabled phones […]

Mobile wallet provider Proxama unveiled its MasterCard NFC mobile contactless payment reference kit at the CARTES & IDentification conference in Paris. According to Proxama, the kit will enable companies to establish exactly what development requirements they need to get their NFC contactless payments deployments ready for market. Users will be able to perform a number […]