China Mobile has announced that its NFC payments service, which has been developed in partnership with bank card association China UnionPay, has gone live in 14 cities, reports NFC World. The service is available in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou with …
Visa Europe is to launch NFC mobile payments in the UK by the end of 2013, according to a video advertisement released by the payments company. The video (below) says the service will be launched “on compatible handsets” by December …
A new report from Berg Insight points to a healthy future for NFC technology, despite such services only being available today to “a very small number of consumers.” The analyst firm states there were NFC mobile wallet services commercially live …
Worldwide mobile payment transaction values will rocket 44 per cent during 2013, to $235.4 billion, although low adoption of NFC technology is slowing some markets – particularly North America – according to research firm Gartner. The number of mobile payment …
Turkcell, Turkey’s largest mobile operator, says it has launched the country’s first mobile payment system for public transport. ‘Urfakart’, a card used for public transport payments, has been integrated into the Turkcell Wallet platform with the help of Belsan and …
Einar Rosenberg, chief executive of NFC specialist Narian Technologies, reckons most users don’t think much of the contactless technology, which, in turn, is holding back NFC-based payments.That’s why he’s launched a new company – Creating Revolutions – to bring to …
Global shipments of NFC-enabled SIM cards hit 30 million in 2012, according to the SIMalliance. The figure is an 87 per cent increase on the low base of the previous year as 2012 saw the start of volume shipments for …
Helixion has officially launched its white label lok-MPL mobile payments platform, which, said the UK-based company, is capable of working with any wallet, payment scheme, phone or secure element. Already used by 12 major banks and financial institutions throughout Europe, …
India’s PVR Cinemas has launched the country’s first NFC-based mobile payments system, according to Information Week. The event was designed to coincide with the availability of the new BlackBerry 10 platform. The NFC system will initially only work with BB10-based …
BankWallet, a South Korean NFC payments service based on pre-paid accounts, has been introduced by a group of local banks. Launched by Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute (KFTC), a Korean interbank clearing house, the BankWallet system stores account holders’ …
