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RSS contactless cardsParking in the West End goes contactless
News Drivers with contactless bank cards will soon be able to use them to pay for their parking. From next year, parking meters in the West End will accept contactless payments from motorists... [29 Oct 2009]
All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News It also says contactless bank cards have "big advantages" for smart ticketing, including the fact that the contactless functionality they already possess means consumers could use them... [20 Aug 2009]
Kerching! London Poundland stores pilot contactless payments
News A degree of momentum has been building recently, however, with Barclays pledging to replace its entire fleet of cards with contactless-enabled equivalents and estimating all its debit... [12 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News Analysts have long been predicting a coming together of the mobile and payments markets owing to the ubiquity of mobile phones and the rise of contactless payment technologies such as NFC (near field communications),... [16 Jul 2009]
Contactless payments hamstrung by battle for hearts and minds
News Despite an increasing number of payment cards issued with contactless functionality - Barclays recently pledged to have all of its debit cards contactless by 2011 - the... [24 Jun 2009]
Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
News According to Barclaycard, around two million of its contactless cards are currently in circulation including Barclaycard OnePulse, Barclaycard Platinum and Barclaycard Goldfish credit... [16 Jun 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. Visa has already announced that it hopes large areas of the UK will have shops with... [29 May 2009]
Boots dispenses contactless payments
News Customers at 15 Boots shops in London and six in Liverpool will be able to use MasterCard PayPass cards to make contactless payments from the second half of this year. UK health retailer Boots is to... [13 May 2009]
Contactless Payments Privacy and Security of RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper The new contactless payment devices suffer from various vulnerabilities which the paper will discuss. RFID technology brings a new experience to credit card payments, but it also comes with new problems. [15 Apr 2009]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper An increasing number of credit cards now contain a tiny wireless computer chip and antenna based on RFID (radio frequency identification) and contactless smart card technology. The RFID-enabled credit... [15 Apr 2009]
How smartphones, netbooks will change the future of money
News Earlier this month for example, mobile operator Orange and credit card company Barclaycard announced a strategic partnership to develop m-payments technology including mobile wallet handsets - which use near field communications (NFC) to... [30 Mar 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News Earlier this year Barclays announced it would be working towards moving its entire fleet of debit cards onto a contactless footing, with all replacement cards issued from March this year... [09 Mar 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
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... [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]
