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Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers

News Coffee chain Coffee Republic is rolling out contactless payment technology after a trial of Barclaycard Business's OneTouch system saw up to one in five credit card transactions being waved through this way. [23 Jul 2008]

Photos: Shopping just got high-tech

Photo Contactless payments are gradually becoming a reality, mainly through plastic cards. The SmartTransaction watch has a port for a SIM-sized smart card that acts as a payment card. These units are actually card printers. [27 Jun 2008]

Open source guru criticises Oyster software

News In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software, such as Red Hat Linux, JBoss middleware and Apache web-server software, in the online payment system for the Oyster contactless... [10 Jun 2008]

Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet

Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and transfer money between bank accounts. [31 Jan 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. Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card... [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]

E-payments: Cheap as chips

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. This is not only due to the money credit and debit card systems cost retailers, it also... [27 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 Visa Europe is one of a number of credit card companies that have rolled out a contactless payment credit card in partnership this autumn. Unsurprisingly, Visa Europe is advocating a contactless payment system for purchases of £10 or less as a more... [29 Oct 2007]

'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London

News In a similar vein to London Underground's Oyster Card, contactless cards transmit payment details wirelessly between the PayPass card and a retailer's terminal. The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy... [04 Sep 2007]

Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20

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]

Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn

News After introducing the Oyster card-style contactless payment tech into its plastic Barclays has been working on a contactless system for the UK's taxis. September will see the commercial rollout of the new Barclaycard Visa credit card, developed... [04 May 2007]

Retailers fear contactless payments

News And it is on the back of this success that card payment market leaders MasterCard and Visa are soon to launch similar propositions to encourage consumers to switch from using cash - for transactions of less than £10 - to contactless cards.silicon... [24 Apr 2007]

RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services

News Another big compliance deadline came and went in July, when non-US companies listed on US exchanges had to meet regulations of one of the most talked-about elements of the infamous Sarbanes-Oxley Act, first introduced in 2002.saw the 40th... [19 Dec 2006]

Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure

News Contactless payments. As well as the obvious privacy concerns, experts have questioned how secure the passports are - and some claim to have cracked and cloned them already.was also the year contactless payments took centre stage. [18 Dec 2006]

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