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Norwegian telco Telenor and local bank DNB are to launch the country's first nationwide mobile payments service, 'Tap2Pay'.
19 November 2013
Fast food chain McDonald's is to extend a mobile ordering and PayPal payment app programme across its French network following a successful trial at 80 establishments.
14 November 2013
Swedish mobile payments outfit Seamless is arriving in Belgium after striking deals with local bank bpost and fast food giant McDonald's.
Israeli vendor On Track Innovations (OTI) says a consortium of banks in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao has signed for its Wave device, which plugs into the audio-jacks of smartphones, enabling them to make NFC payments.
13 November 2013
Opus Global, the new $500 million fintech investment fund set up by former VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron and private equity house GTCR, has poached Goldman Sachs veteran Julio Quinteros.
11 November 2013
Rabobank is preparing a full Netherlands-wide commercial launch of an NFC mobile payments service next year.
Wireless operator Orange has teamed up with Visa to roll out a mobile contactless payments service across France.
08 November 2013
Fico has developed fraud protection technology which checks a person's location, via their mobile phone, against the location of the ATM or point-of-sale terminal where their card is being used.
05 November 2013
UK mobile commerce outfit Zapp is targeting 20 million users by 2017, promising to rival traditional payments giants such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the decade.
04 November 2013
Merseyrail will this week become the first UK rail operator to roll out contactless payments across its network, although travellers will still need a paper ticket.
Banking giant Citi has teamed up with telco 3 Hong Kong to launch an NFC-enabled mobile wallet.
01 November 2013
Google has found a way to circumvent carrier restrictions on its mobile wallet by introducing support for Host Card Emulation in the latest version of its Android operating system, effectively removing the need for access to the telco-controlled Secure Element.
US start-up Circle has secured $9 million in funding as it bids to bring digital currencies such as bitcoin to mainstream businesses and consumers.
The security of contactless payment cards has again been called into question after researchers claimed to be able to pick up NFC data from as far away as 80 centimetres.
31 October 2013
Japanese telco NTT Docomo has teamed up with MasterCard to enable customers to make contactless mobile payments around the world.
29 October 2013
Google is rolling out a tool which lets US firms create coupon offers and link them to its Maps service.
28 October 2013
As it gears up for launch, mobile payments start-up Clinkle has hired former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy as its chief operating officer.
22 October 2013
Australia's Commonwealth Bank is offering customers NFC stickers that can be attached to mobile phones and used to make contactless payments.
17 October 2013
Isis is hoping to entice Americans to sign up for its upcoming mobile NFC wallet by offering one million free Jamba Juice smoothies.
16 October 2013
Crooks have infected point-of-sale devices in South Africa with malware, obtaining customer card details and using them to steal millions of rand, according to local reports.
15 October 2013
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