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Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News While almost half (225) of the 500 testers also got the Barclaycard Visa payWave application preloaded with £200 which they could use to pay for low-value goods at selected retail outlets, O2 said the Oyster function proved more popular than the... [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. It combines scales (on the left) with a payment system for parcels, letters and stamps. [04 Jun 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News What is needed is a low value contactless payment card, said Visa, which was lucky because it has recently launched one to solve that very problem. Apacs estimates five million contactless payment cards to be in circulation by the end of next year. [17 Dec 2007]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods without needing to enter a PIN. [28 Nov 2007]
TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial
News Visa even has a payWave credit card that features the capability to make small, contactless payments in shops, as well as functioning as an Oyster card. The same technology has recently been incorporated into some new banking cards so that they can... [26 Nov 2007]
Is cash costing you three days per year?
News Unsurprisingly, Visa Europe is advocating a contactless payment system for purchases of £10 or less as a more convenient option. Visa Europe is one of a number of credit card companies that have rolled out a contactless payment credit card in... [29 Oct 2007]
Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn
News Visa is to launch contactless 'wave and pay' cards this autumn to replace low-value cash transactions across the UK. September will see the commercial rollout of the new Barclaycard Visa credit card, developed with Transport for London and Transys... [04 May 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News But until the major supermarkets - with their large numbers of convenience stores - accept contactless payments it will be a much more difficult task for MasterCard and Visa to achieve the critical mass they need for this new form of payment to be... [24 Apr 2007]
Visa primes dotMobi for contactless m-payments
News Under the deal, Visa will help dotMobi develop a number of mobile payment capabilities, including contactless mobile payment, vouchers and direct marketing. Visa International has invested a seven-figure sum in dotMobi, the industry group behind... [29 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years
Leader And now rather than hand over some cash or write a cheque it is possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone using contactless and near field communications (NFC) payments. [12 Mar 2007]
Death of cash? Not yet, say retailers...
News Visa launched a mobile platform that it said will "lay the foundation" for the commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world last month. [12 Mar 2007]
Amnesty liberates donations
News Mobile payments platforms are becoming more popular, with Visa unveiling a platform last month which it says will "lay the foundation" for the commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communication services around the... [27 Feb 2007]
Visa launches mobile payments platform
News Visa has launched a mobile platform that it says will "lay the foundation" for commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communications (NFC) services around the world. Until now, Asia has adopted NFC more readily than... [10 Jan 2007]
RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services
News Financial services organisations also got in on the hubbub surrounding contactless payments with Barclaycard, TfL and Visa reviving the idea of creating an Oyster card for the London Tube that would also allow commuters to purchase low-cost items... [19 Dec 2006]
Visa to launch 'wave and pay' cards in UK
News Visa is planning on using RFID-enabled dual-use debit cards, based on its own Visa Contactless payment technology, but is also understood to be in talks with mobile manufacturers to use near field communications (NFC) technology that will enable a... [24 Nov 2006]
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