Fifteen thousand fans have now made use of the NFC-based mobile ticketing system which went live at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia, in May 2019, venue management company ASM Global has revealed. Suncorp Stadium was the first sports and entertainment stadium in Australia to offer contactless tickets on iPhone and Apple Watch, via a…
PARTNER NEWS: NXP has launched a new ultra-wideband chip designed to work together with Bluetooth, NFC and secure element technologies to enable “true secure hands-free smart access” to vehicles. “The NXP NCJ29D5 is the first of a new generation of UWB ICs designed specifically for the demands of the global automotive industry,” the chip maker…
Public transportation agency Translink is exploring the use of NFC technology as a replacement for paper timetables at bus stops in the Australian state of Queensland, iTNews reports. “The NFC PoC will investigate the potential uses of the technology to ‘assist centralised timetable deployment’ in a bid to understand whether ‘active and passive’ NFC tags…
A group of 20 European banks are working together on “setting up a pan-European payment system to challenge the dominance of Visa, Mastercard and technology companies such as Google and PayPal,” French news agency AFP reports. “The Pan European Payment System Initiative (PEPSI) would handle all forms of cashless transactions,” AFP was told. The idea…
Apple Pay “has attracted regulatory scrutiny” from the EU’s Competition Commission due to “several expressions of concern about the US tech giant’s mobile payment service,” Reuters reports. “We’ve been asking quite a number of questions because we get many, many concerns when it comes to Apple Pay for pure competition reasons,” the EU’s Commissioner for…
UK-based DressCode has begun offering a range of tailored men’s shirts that include a contactless payments module incorporated into the sleeve cuff. “We designed CashCuff for the fashion conscious high-tech lover; it’s hidden away out of sight, but always there when you want it,” says DressCode CEO Andy Boothman. “With a CashCuff shirt from DressCode,…
Just under half of British consumers are ready to completely replace traditional verification methods with biometrics for withdrawing cash (46%), starting their car (45%) and unlocking their front door (41%), according to new research from Equifax. Six in ten are ready to use biometrics for verifying their age at bars, clubs and shops (60%), 58%…
PARTNER NEWS: Mastercard has announced a strategic partnership with Tappy Technologies that will see the two companies working together to let fashion brands easily add contactless payments to watches, jewellery and other accessories. Timex Group will be the first brand to use Mastercard and Tappy’s payment technologies, beginning with “a variety of collections and straps”…
Spain’s CaixaBank has unveiled ‘all in one’, a 3,000sqm bank branch in Barcelona that showcases the latest financial technology experiences — including NFC check-ins and facial recognition ATMs. “Anyone who comes to ‘all in one’ with an appointment won’t have to wait in the queue to see their advisor,” the bank says. “Customers can use…
PayPal is to begin a major new push into in-store payments next year, under both the PayPal and Venmo brands and using both NFC and QR codes, CEO Dan Schulman has told Axios. Axios asked Schulman if it is important for PayPal to have a place in the physical retail store. “The short answer to…