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News Barclays Bank has rolled out a contactless Visa debit card. Contactless is designed for small transactions, while users will periodically be asked for a PIN," said the spokesperson. This... [03 Mar 2009]
Brits still not that into contactless payments
News UK consumers continue to be largely unwowed by the idea of ditching cash and using contactless technologies instead, such as mobile wallet phones and wave and pay cards. Contactless pre-payment cards... [12 Feb 2009]
Qualcomm pushes NFC a step closer to mobile
News The manufacturer, which mainly makes chipsets for mobile phones, revealed its support for the contactless, short-range wireless technology on Wednesday. Qualcomm is working with the open-standards NFC company Inside... [12 Feb 2009]
Photos: Scots are sQuids in with wave and pay
Photo Dundee City Council has more than 50,000 users of its contactless payment scheme since launch in October 2008. The scheme, under the Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC) programme aims to distribute pre-loadable wave... [23 Jan 2009]
All Barclays debit cards contactless by 2011
News Barclays is to replace its entire fleet of debit cards with new plastic featuring contactless payments functionality. In addition, all new customers to the bank from March will be given contactless... [06 Jan 2009]
Coffee Republic tastes another flavour of wave and pay
News Coffee Republic has kicked off a pilot that will see its loyalty card provider sQuid supply a contactless payment service to the café chain.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Coffee Republic has already rolled out a... [11 Dec 2008]
Pret A Manger eats up contactless payments
News Credit card issuer Barclaycard and takeaway food chain Pret A Manger have announced the rollout of contactless payment systems at 178 stores.silicon.com Retail & Leisure According to Barclaycard,... [27 Nov 2008]
Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News Alzetta told silicon.com the transition from contactless payment cards to near field communication (NFC) mobile devices is also firmly on Visa's long-term agenda and to that end the company has entered into an agreement... [10 Nov 2008]
Photos: Visa predicts the future of paying
Photo Visa is working with handset, SIM manufacturers and mobile phone service providers to create a handset capable of making contactless payments. Contactless payment cards such as this are intended to be... [10 Nov 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News Mobile money transfers and contactless NFC (near field communications) will make up half of the overall payment mobile market globally in five years' time, according to a new report. NFC is a short range wireless... [30 Oct 2008]
Scousers to go contactless on the buses
News Scousers are set to use contactless bankcards on a number of buses in Merseyside, following the announcement of a pilot of the technology by Stagecoach, MasterCard and The Royal Bank of Scotland. The Liverpool trial,... [21 Oct 2008]
Photos: A first glimpse of the ID card
Photo The Home Office says this "contactless communication" requires the reader to be closer than the distance necessary to scan RFID tags. The Home Office has officially taken the wraps off the new ID card for foreign... [25 Sep 2008]
Dublin gets its own Oyster card-a-like
News The complete Integrated Ticketing System (ITS) will be able to handle up to two million transactions per day and could be extended to add internet top-ups and contactless retail payments. Dublin is to get its own... [24 Sep 2008]
Barclays gives away 50,000 contactless coffees
News Barclays will be giving away 50,000 single use contactless payment cards at this weekend's Thames Festival to get consumers used to the idea of the 'wave and pay' tech. The coffee outlet will house six of the 6,000... [10 Sep 2008]
Barclays contactless: More cards, more retailers
News Barclays is preparing to expand its range of 'wave and pay' cards and convince more retailers to accept contactless payments as it seeks to beat its target of getting one million contactless cards out to... [08 Sep 2008]
