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Wind and BNL BNP Paribas Group, in collaboration with SIA and MasterCard, have started an NFC technology (Near Field Communication), which allows users to make purchases in contactless mode via Samsung smartphones, with a Classic Credit Card issued by BNL on the MasterCard circuit and virtualized on a NFC SIM provided by Gemalto. To utilize [...]

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Kalixa Group, DeviceFidelity and MasterCard announced the UK launch of the moneto prepaid wallet. The wallet enables near field communications (NFC) functionality on an iPhone, allowing users to tap and pay for goods at thousands of retail outlets across the country. The service will soon be compatible with Android mobile phones, and is set to be rolled-out across other European countries [...]

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Responding to increasing demand for mobile payments, Cryptomathic has upgraded its EMV flagship issuing solution, CardInk, to enable customers to issue payment applications to smartphones and other mobile devices. The upgrade sees CardInk supporting MasterCard Mobile PayPass and Visa Mobile requirements. The ability to use a mobile device to make a near-field-communication (NFC) payment at [...]

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Société Générale, one of the largest European financial services groups, announced that they launched the bank’s first NFC Visa payment service in Strasbourg, France relying on Oberthur Technologies’ Trusted Service Manager (TSM) platform.  The NFC ecosystem is progressively maturing in France with several commercial deployments either planned or in progress in large cities. The successful [...]

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Chinese bank card network China UnionPay has announced plans to introduce a mobile-payment service using an NFC-enabled Android phone from HTC. The phone, reported by Taiwan’s Central News Agency as the HTC Stunning, will enable users to do contactless payments, along with mobile banking and bill payment. A report in the China-based English-language publication China Daily said the phone could [...]

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