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Photo The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture Technology Labs shows off the future of contactless payments using mobile phones. The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC...
[31 Jan 2008]
News Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card companies to introduce small-payments contactless chip cards. Apacs estimates five million contactless payment cards to be in circulation by the end of next...
[17 Dec 2007]
News Before any commercial launch, the various businesses in the contactless payments ecosystem need to work out where the money will be made, O2 added. Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some...
[28 Nov 2007]
News Last year, Singapore unveiled a standard contactless e-purse application (Cepas), which allows merchants to only have one system to deal with multiple cards. E-payments may be convenient for shoppers and retailers - but it has been suggested they...
[27 Nov 2007]
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]
News Head of innovation and acceptance for Visa Europe, Sandra Alzetta, said with more than 70 per cent of commuters admitting to spending up to £50 in cash each week on sundry expenses, it is "easy to see the opportunity" for contactless payments as a...
[29 Oct 2007]
News This is an essential milestone in the use of mobile phones as payment devices, as it paves the way for making mobile phone contactless payments device-independent. Manchester City Football Club has launched a trial with Orange to allow fans to use...
[22 Oct 2007]
News Another futuristic technology taking off is contactless payments, which received a boost this month with Mastercard and Maestro launching 'tap and go' payment cards in London. Futuristic technologies and data security really grabbed the attention...
[28 Sep 2007]
News Payments industry body Apacs estimates more than five million contactless cards will be issued by the end of 2008 in the UK and that they will be accepted by at least 100,000 retailers. MasterCard has launched its contactless payment tech in the UK.
[04 Sep 2007]
News The system uses NFC (near field communications), the same kind of contactless payment technology employed by TfL's Oyster card. Cheques account for just under a tenth of non-cash payments in the UK, according to Apacs.
[22 Jun 2007]
News The next stage in the debit card's development is the introduction of prepaid cards and contactless payments - further reducing the need for carrying cash. Customers will see the rollout of contactless payments from the beginning of next year.
[01 Jun 2007]
whitepaper The mass market introduction of contactless technology is an important event for the payments industry. Contactless payments are already providing benefits to consumers and retailers alike, in terms of higher levels of control and convenience for...
[30 May 2007]
News Barclaycard, Transport for London and Visa teamed up to develop the tech to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the country's plastic last year. Visa is to launch contactless 'wave and pay' cards this autumn to...
[04 May 2007]
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a near field communication payments system for...
[27 Apr 2007]
News Retailers are increasingly worried that the forthcoming launch of contactless payment cards in the UK could leave them significantly out of pocket as the cost of accepting payments this way could be potentially much more expensive than cash.
[24 Apr 2007]
News Under the deal, Visa will help dotMobi develop a number of mobile payment capabilities, including contactless mobile payment, vouchers and direct marketing. Speaking on the state of wireless payments, at the CTIA Wireless conference in Florida...
[29 Mar 2007]
News But she said this may all change with the arrival of contactless technology on cards. Cash remains the most popular way of making small payments, with 96 per cent of all spending under £5 done with notes and coins.
[13 Mar 2007]
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]
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]
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]
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