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A pilot scheme that allowed commuters in San Francisco to use their NFC-enabled mobile phones to pay for rail fares and make retail payments has been hailed as a success, with participants embracing the technology.
07 October 2008
Ireland's Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has selected IBM to build and implement the infrastructure for a smart card e-payments system for public transport in Dublin.
29 September 2008
Card network Visa is developing mobile payments software for handsets that run on Google's new phone operating system, Android.
26 September 2008
UK bank Alliance & Leicester (A&L) has partnered payments vendor Indigosolutions to launch a pre-paid foreign currency card with SMS top-ups for holidaymakers.
17 September 2008
Despite the fact that over 90% of Americans that own contactless payments cards like using them, three quarters of the population are not even aware of the technology's existence, according to a survey commissioned by the Smart Card Alliance.
Plastic cards could be set to go the way of cheques and become virtually obsolete as customers take up mobile and biometric systems to pay for purchases, according to Barclaycard which is ramping up its investment in contactless payment technology.
09 September 2008
Card network Visa is continuing its aggressive push into mobile payments by embarking on projects with banks and telcos in Brazil and South Korea.
03 September 2008
A pilot scheme that allows Londoners to use their mobile phones to pay for tube journeys and make small value purchases has been hailed as a success, with the majority of participants saying they are happy using the contactless system.
02 September 2008
Sushi restaurant chain Wasabi has rolled out contactless payments technology from Commidea across all its sites in the UK.
28 August 2008
Delegates at this week's Democratic National Convention in Denver have been given free commemorative badges by First Data that incorporate the vendor's contactless payments technology.
Despite a slowdown in the US markets, eftpos vendor Verifone says it expects to report a healthy rise in revenue and earnings in the remainder of its fiscal year.
20 August 2008
Irish authorities are warning retailers to be on high alert for a criminal gang that skimmed thousands of cards by masquerading as eftpos engineers and replacing legitimate terminals with compromised units in stores.
19 August 2008
Police in the UK have arrested a third man, believed to be the engineering brains behind a sophisticated programme to read and transmit customer PINs as they are entered at compromised Chip and PIN terminals in retailer check-outs.
18 August 2008
ANZ Bank will use the upcoming Tri Nations rugby union match between Australia and New Zealand to launch a reloadable pre-paid contactless Visa card.
21 July 2008
Citi is launching a combined contactless Octopus travel and credit card in Hong Kong.
18 July 2008
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has begun issuing customers with the country's first dual interface Visa cards for contact-based and contactless payments.
17 July 2008
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is piloting MasterCard's PayPass contactless payments technology in London black cabs.
08 July 2008
MasterCard has partnered Turkey's Bank Asya to launch a chip and PIN contactless card which can be used to pay tolls on the country's roads and bridges.
03 July 2008
Over three quarters of Brits fear the introduction of contactless payment systems will leave them exposed to fraud, according to a new survey.
27 June 2008
UK pre-paid card outfit Altair Financial Services has unveiled a wrist watch featuring MasterCard's PayPass contactless payments technology.
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