Dynamic Card Solutions, an Englewood, Colo. provider of instant issuance and PIN selection solutions, has named Guy Berg its director of advanced payment technologies. In this role, Berg, formerly president of Collis America, a payments industry consultant, will help lead product development of Dynamics’ smart card instant issuance and PIN change solutions. With over 20 […]

Tyfone, a Portland, Ore. provider of mobile NFC payments/secure transaction capabilities, says it has received a U.S. patent for its electronic transaction card that allows a memory card to be used as an electronic wallet or for the secure transmission of financial information. This technology is part of the company’s u4ia (euphoria) mobile financial services […]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association seeking to advance the use of NFC technology, announced several accomplishments from its recent all-members meeting in Oulu, Finland. These included a Plugfest, where NFC Forum member companies successfully tested the interoperability of their technologies with those of their peers, a validation test of the forum’s logical link […]

A new study from San Francisco-based Javelin Strategy & Research predicts a floundering mobile payments market until merchants, payment networks, financial institutions and carriers bridge their services. Calling the contactless payments ecosystem a series of islands, the study says there is little-to-no mutual realization of value among the various constituents. The report indicates that the […]

Zenius Solutions, a Silicon Valley NFC software company supporting mobile payments and contactless acceptance devices, has announced the completion of the first end-to-end live acceptance of a contactless credit card on a mobile phone. ZeniusMobilePOS with real-time authorization reads information from a contactless card, performs transaction processing, and connects with the Authorize.net payment gateway for […]

In a project designed to illustrate the “wirelessness” of wireless RFID technology, London design firm Berg has designed a Rube Goldberg machine using RFID-enabled devices that interact with each other in sequence to perform a simple physical task–in this case turning on a computer. The design firm teamed up with Norway Near Field Communication (NFC) […]

Gemalto has achieved MasterCard certification for its Trusted Services Management solution, which recognizes the company’s ability to manage personal user information for banking transactions. The certification applies to Gemalto’s Taiwan-based data center and enables the company to support financial institutions in the deployment of NFC services on mobile phones. “MasterCard works alongside vendors to offer […]