Visa has signed a deal with UK-based mobile money solutions provider Monitise to roll out mobile contactless payments across Europe, according to nma.co.uk. The deal, which builds on Visa’s €500 million investment in mobile banking technology, will see the partners develop and deploy large-scale mobile services, including payment, peer-to-peer money transfers and text alerts for […]

German test equipment provider COMPRION and French NFC consulting specialist MONETECH are partnering to provide French customers with contactless test tools and consulting services for debugging and diagnosing errors in NFC solutions. The new test service, designed for companies who use NFC services but don’t have the internal resources to run thorough maintenance, includes an […]

INSIDE Secure has announced the availability of biometric on-card matching capabilities for its SecuRead system-in-package NFC solution. Based on advanced fingerprint identification software from Neurotechnology running on the SecuRead secure element, the new solution enables manufacturers of mobile NFC devices to provide two-factor security for a variety of mobile applications, including payment. The solution will […]

O2 UK has announced plans to launch a contactless mobile payment service in the UK later this year, according to Total Telecom. O2’s managing director of financial services James Le Brocq told Total Telecom, “We want to take the entire contents of your wallet and put it on the mobile,” adding that the service will […]

Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smart phones, has announced plans to launch NFC payments in the UK in time for the 2012 Olympics, according to MarketingWeek. Last week T-mobile and Orange announced their joint venture Everything Everywhere will be the first UK operator to offer NFC payments this year, with O2, Nokia, Android […]

HID Global announced that China Unicom has installed HID Global’s OMNIKEY 1021 desktop smart card readers at its stores in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country. By incorporating OMNIKEY 1021 readers in its business operating system to read/write SIM cards, China Unicom has attempted to simplify the SIM card issuance process and […]

Contactless network provider accells has announced it will unveil its new point-of-sale contactless mobile service this month at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. By linking a contactless tag or any NFC-enabled phone to the user’s mobile phone number, accells enables customers to make contactless transactions at the point of sale, conduct money transfers, […]