DeviceFidelity has announced a number of updates for its moneto mobile wallet service: A new app feature, “Money Move,” enables iPhone and Android moneto users to send peer-to-peer money transfers to other moneto users free of charge. The moneto microSD card for Android now comes with 4GB of additional storage, and is supported on several […]

Google Wallet may soon move beyond payments and loyalty to incorporate tickets, credentials and other things cluttering your physical wallet, according to Robin Dua, head of product management for Google Wallet. Taking a page out of Apple’s Passbook, the expanded Google Wallet would hold all kinds of digitized information – from boarding passes to work […]

Oberthur Technologies has announced that its trusted service manager (TSM) platform has been adopted by Australian bank Westpac for its new NFC payments pilot. Using Oberthur’s solution, Westpac will be able to securely issue personalized MasterCard debit cards to the SIM card of pilot participants’ Android handsets. Once the debit card has been issued, customers […]

Apple has been awarded a patent for payment acceptance technology that appears to be designed for an NFC mobile wallet solution, according to Apple Insider. U.S. Patent No. 8,255,323, titled “Motion based payment confirmation,” describes a method in which mobile phone users can confirm or decline a payment transaction either by physically moving the device […]

After months of delay, mobile commerce joint venture Isis is set to debut its NFC payments service next month, reports Bloomberg. Doug Bergeron, CEO of payment terminal maker VeriFone, told Bloomberg that the partners are prepared for a September launch in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas. Isis declined to add any more specific information […]

MasterCard has formed a five-year partnership with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to provide mobile payments solutions for 27 million mobile subscribers in the UK. According to MasterCard, one of the first products out the partnership will be a co-branded, pre-paid solution for mobile devices that will enable customers to make NFC payments at more than […]

Hungary’s State Printing House has formed a partnership with mobile operator Telenor Hungary to pilot NFC-enabled mobile payments. The partners are preparing a solution that will enable pilot participants to use their mobile phones in place of bank and loyalty cards at the point of sale. The State Printing House will be responsible for providing […]

M1 has joined StarHub and Singtel as the third mobile operator in Singapore to offer SIM-based NFC mobile services. M1’s two million subscribers can now use their NFC handsets equipped with M1’s NFC-enabled SIM cards to make contactless payments at any MasterCard PayPass or EZ-Link payment point in Singapore. M1 customers have the option of […]

The Czech Republic’s Komerční banka has announced a partnership with Visa Europe, Telefónica and Samsung to trial SIM-based NFC payments. The first 2,000 Samsung Galaxy S III smart phone owners who sign up for the pilot will be able to swap out their old SIM cards for an NFC-enabled KB Mobile Card that can power […]

It seems like every report that comes out about NFC contains the same caveat: mass adoption will not happen until consumers are convinced of the technology’s safety. With its new video, “Google Wallet: Shipping Safe and Sound,” Google looks to convince the skeptics that Google Wallet is in fact more secure than the leather wallets […]