The NFC Forum and the Mobey Forum, a global financial industry group tasked with facilitating mobile financial services offerings by banks, have agreed to work together to further efforts to enable the delivery of services that will provide secure and interoperable mobile financial transactions. The two organizations share a common interest in fostering the successful […]

A new white paper from UK-based telecoms management consultant The Human Chain looks at whether NFC technologies can gain market share and how they could potentially impact development of integrated NFC handsets. Essentially, the report reviews the business case for new NFC form factors and challenges the industry to address the barriers to market. “We’ve […]

The UK government, working in partnership with the mobile and banking industries, has released measures designed to prevent criminals targeting technology that allows consumers to use their mobile phones as debit, credit and pre-pay cards. These guidelines include: Contactless payment functions, SIM cards and phones will be disabled as soon as they are reported lost […]

Nokia has announced a new mobile solution called Nokia Money that will enable consumers with mobile phones to access basic financial services, such as financial management and payments systems. Nokia Money enables consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods […]

Zenius Solutions, a Silicon Valley-based NFC software company supporting mobile payments and NFC add-ons, has rolled out demo offerings of its first two products–ZeniusMobilePay, which enables NFC-enabled phones to conduct U.S. and EMV contactless credit card wave-and-pay transactions and ZeniusMobilePOS, which equips NFC-enabled mobile phones to read Contactless credit cards. Both products work with contactless […]

GuestLogix Inc., a provider of onboard retail solutions to the airline industry, announced the availability of contactless payment technology with its point-of-service handhelds, certified for use with MasterCard PayPass, VISA payWare, American Express ExpressWay, Discover Network Zip and existing Near Field Communications programs residing on mobile phones. The company’s move with contactless and near field […]

Multiple applications on one card bode well for the technology’s future By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications It’s an interesting time for contactless smart card technology. The payment cards are in the hands of consumers but now it’s a matter of getting them to use them. The next year may be tough in terms […]