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Telecom Italia and SIA testing mobile ticketing service via NFC

Public transport companies TPER (Transport Passenger Emilia-Romagna), ANM Napoli, START Romagna, Telecom Italy and SIA Group have signed an agreement to develop and test a “mobile ticketing” platform enabling all citizens owning a latest generation Smartphone to purchase and validate tickets directly through their mobile phones.

Survey reveals industry expectations for contactless are overambitious

A survey conducted by Compass Plus has revealed that the reality of the mass adoption of contactless payments is much further behind industry expectations.

Marks & Spencer become Visa’s number one contactless retailer

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has now completed the roll out of contactless payment to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores. The move cements M&S’ position as the UK’s leading contactless retailer, processing over 230,000 contactless transactions every week.

Consumers 'scared' of contactless payments

Large numbers of Brits are still wary of new ways to pay for goods such as contactless pay, with a quarter stating they find the idea of it 'scary'.

Direct operator billing via Near Field Communication

Mobile billing and messaging aggregator txtNation and Europe’s largest supplier of NFC tags and products, RapidNFC have partnered to become the first to offer direct operator billing via NFC technology.

StarHub announce Near Field Communication mobile wallet

C-SAM and StarHub, Singapore’s fully integrated info-communication company announced the newest update to the SmartWallet mobile app which will enable near field communication (NFC) peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile ticketing services. The mobile ticketing innovation is the world’s first NFC mobile wallet with P2P redemption of movie tickets.

Field notes from the Isis Pilot

Nearly three years since rumors began to swirl that the major mobile network operators (MNOs) sought to provide NFC payments, the Isis mobile wallet finally launched in late October 2012. While the initial rollout is focused on only two cities (Austin, TX and Salt Lake City, UT) and handset availability and merchant acceptance are still limited, Isis’s market entry is a milestone in the evolution of mobile payments. First Annapolis has been tracking the Isis launch (primarily in Austin) and testing the wallet, and below we provide our observations to-date.

G&D ensures security of O2 wallet payments in Germany

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will ensure the security of applications in Telefónica Germany’s electronic wallet, the O2 Wallet. In February the telecommunications company became the first network operator in Germany to launch a wallet service.

Banco Sabadell NFC m-payments pilot

Spanish financial services provider Banco Sabadell, in partnership with Telefonica and BlackBerry, have launched a pilot project for contactless payments with NFC-enabled mobile phones. Trial participants, which are also Banco Sabadell customers, can pay for purchases directly from their mobile phones which come with a Visa card built in the phone's SIM card.

Dazzling growth of contactless cards in Turkey

Turkish banks are continuing to develop their products & services and offer practical solutions for facilitating the lives of card users thanks to the investments they make in parallel with the fast developments in technology. Contactless cards are the most notable ones among these products. The statistics of contactless cards, which have become prominent in the industry due to their features, have been published by BKM (Interbank Card Center of Turkey).

Pret sees growth in contactless

Contactless payments at sandwich chain Pret A Manger have boomed over the past 12 months, according to the firm's director of IT, delivery and support, Andy Chalklin.

BPC Banking technologies helps credit Dnepr bank launch payWave

BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System e-payment solutions for the global financial industry, today announces the launch of Visa payWave products in Credit Dnepr Bank, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. With this launch, powered by BPC’s SmartVista, the Bank’s customers can enjoy the speed and convenience of contactless payments at POS devices. Low value transactions can be completed in less than a second, without the need for a PIN or signature. The entire project took only three months to complete, including the certification process by Visa.

Midcounties Co-operative upgrades to contactless with TNSPay

The UK’s largest independent Co-operative, The Midcounties Co-operative, is upgrading its payment systems with faster processing, enhanced security and new contactless functionality from Transaction Network Services (TNS).

Bankinter develops NFC service eliminating secure elements

Bankinter has developed an NFC payments solution that works without a secure element, potentially cutting out both mobile network operators and players like Google from the NFC payments business.

SIA uses Gemalto's TSM platform to speed up Italian NFC rollout

Gemalto and SIA, a major international payments processor, are joining forces to support rapid deployment of NFC services throughout Italy. Gemalto and SIA team up for the first national TSM infrastructure in Europe that can be utilized by all of the market's key stakeholders, accessible to the country's largest mobile network operators and leading banks.

China Unicom selects Gemalto in China’s first NFC payment service

Gemalto announced that its UpTeq NFC SIM card has been selected by China Unicom to secure its mobile wallet program. China Unicom is the nation’s second-largest wireless operator, with more than 220 million subscribers in which over 60 million are on 3G. The Unicom Merchants’ Bank mobile wallet is the first NFC payment service being launched in China, in a joint collaboration between China Unicom and China Merchants Bank (CMB) for the mobile wallet itself.

GlobalPlatform specification supports service provider integration into the NFC Ecosystem

GlobalPlatform, the organization that standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology, has advanced its specification for the Management of Mobile NFC Services to specifically address how service providers can connect and communicate with other actors operating within the near-field-communication (NFC) ecosystem. The specification has been created based on input from industry bodies, including the European Payments Council, GSMA and the Association Française pour le ‘Sans Contact’ Mobile (AFSCM).

Visa and Samsung sign global NFC deal

Visa and Samsung announced a global alliance that combines Visa’s expertise in payments with Samsung’s leadership in mobile device technology – an alliance that has the potential to significantly accelerate the availability of mobile payments globally.

China's UnionPay working with Gemalto on NFC payments

Gemalto is collaborating with China’s UnionPay to build a secure mobile NFC ecosystem. UnionPay is China’s leading payment scheme and has the world’s largest network of payment cards, with more than 3.5 billion cards issued to date, as well as being a key advocate in China’s mobile payment eco-system.

MasterCard introduces MasterPass

MasterCard has introduced MasterPass –“the future of digital payments”. MasterPass is a digital service that allows consumers to use any payment card or enabled device to discover enhanced shopping experiences that are as simple as a click, tap or touch – online, in-store or anywhere.

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Telecom Italia and SIA testing mobile ticketing service via NFC

Survey reveals industry expectations for contactless are overambitious

Marks & Spencer become Visa’s number one contactless retailer

Consumers 'scared' of contactless payments

Direct operator billing via Near Field Communication

StarHub announce Near Field Communication mobile wallet

Field notes from the Isis Pilot

G&D ensures security of O2 wallet payments in Germany

Banco Sabadell NFC m-payments pilot

Dazzling growth of contactless cards in Turkey

Pret sees growth in contactless

BPC Banking technologies helps credit Dnepr bank launch payWave

Midcounties Co-operative upgrades to contactless with TNSPay

Bankinter develops NFC service eliminating secure elements

SIA uses Gemalto's TSM platform to speed up Italian NFC rollout

China Unicom selects Gemalto in China’s first NFC payment service

GlobalPlatform specification supports service provider integration into the NFC Ecosystem

Visa and Samsung sign global NFC deal

China's UnionPay working with Gemalto on NFC payments

MasterCard introduces MasterPass

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