By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Results of yet another survey has shown that a significant percentage of U.S. consumers continue to harbor security fears about using their smartphones for payments, a stubborn problem that has hindered growth of mobile payments from the beginning. Related stories, automatically selected: Research Firm Projects Use of NFC […]
PARTNER NEWS: Raiffeisen Bank has launched an Android NFC mobile payments service in Romania and the Czech Republic that uses Antelop Solutions’ digital payments and tokenization platform. The bank, one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe with 25 million customers in 15 countries, now plans to make the service available in additional territories.
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Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority is to introduce a mobile version of its Nol transit card next year, enabling both tourists and local residents to use their NFC phones to travel on metro, tram, bus and maritime public transportation services. “The Nol Virtual Card is planned to be launched in the third quarter of 2020,
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The UK’s NatWest bank has begun a three-month pilot of a biometric credit card that enables customers to make contactless transactions of up to £100 (US$123) instead of the usual maximum value of £30 (US$37). The biometric credit cards include a built-in fingerprint sensor that the cardholder uses to verify their identity when making a
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The number of passengers able to use the NFC transit ticketing system which went live in Paris last week is to be increased in 2020-21 with the addition of support for host card emulation (HCE). Currently, the NFC mobile ticketing service is restricted to owners of Samsung and Orange Android NFC phone owners. That’s because
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A new digital identity service to be introduced by the French government this year will use NFC passport reading to enable citizens to use their smartphone to securely enrol themselves onto the system. “President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID programme, dubbed Alicem, in November, earlier than an initial
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Samsung Pay users in the US are now able to send international money transfers from within the mobile payments app — and use a new Samsung Pay Cash account to make payments in stores and online “right from the Samsung Pay app”. “Samsung Pay Cash is a new virtual prepaid cash card in the wallet
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PARTNER NEWS: Chipmaker NXP has updated NFC TagWriter, its Android app that can write and rewrite information such as contact data, web links, WiFi and Bluetooth connection details, as well as triggers for emails, calls, text messages, apps and more, into single or multiple NFC cards and tags. Version 4.7, released today, allows users to
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A new store in the largest shopping and entertainment complex in North America has opened as a testbed for the latest retail technologies — and products on sale have been equipped with NFC tags. Shoppers can scan the tags with their mobile phones to easily find out more about products on sale. Soon, they will
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The Italian Government is launching a plan to push the Italian citizens to use more credit cards and digital payments. Beginning in 2020, citizens who will pay for goods and services with debit and credit cards will receive a proportional reimbursement of expenses.Peachwire, 4 years ago, has made its cashless payment solution available to the
