eNational Payments, a provider of mobile and contactless electronic commerce and payment processing services, has a entered into a strategic partnership with Mocapay, enabling its merchants and retailers access to Mocapay’s secure mobile payments solution and mobile marketing engine to reach customers in real-time. eNational Payments currently provides financial services, including check warranty and back […]

AT&T and Verizon will launch trials of their new contactless payment system – codenamed Mercury – at markets in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas according to fiercemobilecontent.com. Participating customers will be able to pay for a variety of goods and services with NFC-enabled smart phones operating on Discover Financial Services’ payment network. […]

Airlines are interested in using NFC technology for passenger check-in, according to check-in.aero. In 2009, Air France, Amadeus and IER partnered with Nice Côte d’Azur Airport to test NFC technology. Members of the airport’s Club Airport Premier passenger program and the airline’s frequent flyer program travelling between Nice and Paris Orly piloted Pass and Fly […]

Visa is teaming with Turkey’s Akbank and vendor DeviceFidelity to launch a new microSD-based contactless mobile payment system. Akbank customers will be able to insert DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD into their handsets’ memory card slots, turning them into contactless payments devices that can be used with Visa payWave terminals. The project will initially involve Blackberry handsets, […]

MasterCard’s stock dropped 3.6% on the recent announcement Verizon and AT&T are partnering with Discover and Barclays to launch mobile contactless payment services, but the company says it has its own ventures in diversified payments. According to Ajay Banga, President and CEO of MasterCard, the company currently has 20 pilot and commercial roll outs of […]

Oberthur Technologies has reported an increase in demand for its FlyBuy contactless stickers with banks and issuers throughout the United States, including Citi, as well as internationally in Switzerland, Poland, England and Korea. Developed in cooperation with MasterCard Worldwide over a year ago, Oberthur’s FlyBuy Sticker is a contactless payment tag that can be attached […]

AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA are reportedly teaming up to launch a contactless mobile payment pilot in Atlanta and three other cities, according to bloomberg.com. Bloomberg calls the venture, which is expected to include the support of Discover Financial Services and Barclays Plc, a “threat” to Visa and MasterCard, the world’s largest payment […]