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Gemalto has worked with PCCW-HKT, one of Hong Kong’s major mobile network operators and Octopus Cards Limited (OCL to bring mobile NFC ticketing to its subscribers, as well as a number of additional value added NFC payment services. With more than 23 million Octopus cards in circulation, Octopus delivers a broad range of micro payment [...]

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In a quiet industry move, Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless have selected Proxama to develop the Isis Mobile Wallet application for NFC-enabled devices using the BlackBerry 10 operating system platform. “The roll out of Isis is a significant step forward for NFC as a mainstream [...]

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Mobile commerce provider CorFire has announced a collaboration with payments innovators Wirecard to allow near field communications service (NFC) to enable mobile payments across Europe. Under the agreement, Wirecard’s products and services have integrated CorFire’s MPSA, an NFC API stack that allows mobile apps to support NFC payments services such as Visa payWave. In addition, [...]

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Mobile Wallet Initiative Austria has been launched by a group of financial, technology and telecoms companies. The new organisation aims to create an open nationwide standard for NFC mobile wallets. 2014 is the scheduled commercial launch. Members of the new initiative include Austria Card, Card Complete, Drei (Three), Erste Bank und Sparkassen, First Data Austria, MasterCard,Nexperts, PayLife Bank, T-Mobile Austria and Visa. “To ensure the highest [...]

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Visa Europe and Volkswagen Bank are offering a mobile payment platform as of September. 500 clients of Volkswagen Bank will trial mobile payments with their iPhone, in an initial testing phase. During the pilot, the technology is available exclusively for iPhone 4/4S and 5. As of 2014, mobile payments will be available for Android based [...]

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