On Track Innovations Ltd. announced COPNI Wave, a plug-in that enables NFC for consumers and business. OTI’s COPNI Wave version enables issuers to offer an NFC accessory to support mobile payments without the need to open or install anything in the phone. The COPNI Wave delivers mobile payment solution to mobile communications providers, banks, retail […]

GlobalPlatform has published an implementation guide detailing how the organization’s card specification can be deployed on a secure element. Often on-chip microcontrollers, SE’s are tamper-resistant platforms that can securely host applications along with their confidential and cryptographic data. The implementation guide should be of interest to groups working on the advancement of secure application management […]

SMARTRAC announced production of NFC tags at 50 micrometers, reportedly making it one of the thinnest RFID transponder to date. Typically rendered at 120 µm, SMARTRAC has drastically cut the standard RFID transponder thickness, and is able to make Infineon my-d NFC chip wafers down to 50 micrometers for flip chip assembly. Once assembled, the […]

The latest installment of MasterCard’s Mobile Payments Readiness Index was has been released and will be on display at Sibos in Osaka, Japan. According to a release on MasterCard’s website, the readiness index analyzed 34 countries, assessing their readiness to incorporate and use three types of mobile payments— person-to-person, mobile web commerce and mobile contactless […]

MasterCard announced it has partnered with Dutch banks ABN AMRO and ING to launch contactless cards enabled with Maestro PayPass in the Netherlands by mid-2013. Maestro PayPass offers consumers fast and convenient payment options while shopping, benefiting both the consumer and the merchant by reducing checkout time. PayPass users are able to tap their contactless […]

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that can be built into contactless payment cards and passports to prevent their details from being read or payments taken without the user’s active permission, according to Engineering and Technology Magazine. Using a capacitive touch sensor, similar to those found in mobile smart phones, NXP engineers created the […]

DeviceFidelity Inc. announced the CredenSE product line of microSD devices, a commercial NFC product with on board active signal amplification chip, secure element and miniature antenna. CredenSE can work on handsets with embedded NFC and those without. CredenSE also works with the DeviceFidelity iCaisse to bring NFC enabled mobile wallet applications to all iPhone models. […]