Four partners have come together to deliver mobile contactless payment experience at Mobile World Congress. CaixaBank, Gemalto, Telefónica and Visa Europe will deliver a payments application, which will be offered to 3,500 delegates at Mobile World Congress, taking place Feb. 25-28 in Barcelona. The app, developed by Telefónica Digital, will enable delegates to make mobile […]

The Blackboard Transact campus card suite now supports MIFARE, a near field communication compatible protocol that enables secure contactless smart card transactions. Partner institutions can now choose either MIFARE or FeliCa when issuing NFC-compatible student identification cards or mobile phones. This latest software update also includes a configuration application that creates a single MIFARE card […]

A report released by comScore Inc. offers insight into consumer awareness, opinion and intent to use current digital wallet solutions. The study — entitled Digital Wallet Road Map 2013 — found that outside of PayPal, digital wallets registered awareness among only 51% of U.S. consumers. As the comScore report reveals, this lack of awareness coupled […]

The 2013 Smart Card Alliance payments Summit saw executives from MasterCard and Visa spoke about the payments industry, explained their road maps and provided vision for the future payments infrastructure. The summit saw head of authentication product integration for Visa, Stephanie Ericksen, reveal new details that will expand Visa’s roadmap to include EMV. Ericksen revealed […]

Viableware, creators of the RAIL payment platform for full-service restaurants, has put the finishing touches on a mobile wallet plan involving some of the top mobile payments industry players. The full list of mobile payments industry partners will likely be announced in the coming weeks, but for now Viableware has revealed that its new m-wallet […]

MasterCard Worldwide announced a record growth of its contactless payments technology, MasterCard PayPass, across the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region in 2012, citing a 28% year-over-year (YoY) increase in merchant locations. MasterCard’s PayPass contactless payment network now boasts nearly 700,000 merchant locations in 51 countries as of Q4 2012. Growth data reflects a […]

Sequent’s new mobile wallet management platform for Android effectively enables authorized mobile apps to use any card stored on the phone’s secure element (SE), transforming apps into wallets. The Sequent Wallet Management Platform is available for phones with secure element technology running Android 4.0 or later. The platform tracks which wallets are authorized to use […]

By Fred Emery, Vice President and General Manager of Campus Solutions at Heartland Payment Systems Spend time around a college campus these days and it will become apparent just how attached students have become to their mobile phones. Whether texting, listening to music, playing games, checking out the latest app or talking to a friend, […]

Accells Technologies has announced that is has been awarded the “System and method for secure transaction process via mobile device” patent, which will protect Accells mobile ID for smart authentication of mobile transactions. This, the latest patent in Accells’ rise in the authentication sector, further cements the Israel-based cybersecurity specialist as a player in mobile […]

T-Mobile has proven itself to be a supporter of NFC and a recent blog post from Brad Duea, senior vice president of product management at the mobile company, details some of T-Mobile’s NFC-based products for 2013. This past year was a big one for NFC technology and as Duea points out, T-Mobile customers were provided […]