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Interac Association, a Canadian payment network, has announced a partnership with INSIDE Contactless to develop chips containing the specifications for INTERAC’s contactless payment service, enabling Interac Association and its members to offer their debit card users a “next generation” retail payments solution. “We have sought out and are leveraging the best technology expertise available globally,” [...]

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Customers of Crédit Mutuel and CIC banks in the Paris region can take part in a trial of both NFC and contactless card payments due to take place at Disneyland Paris from October. The resort is to begin testing the use of NFC phones and contactless cards to make payments in its shops and restaurants, [...]

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Cornèr Bank and Aduno, the Swiss retailer acquirer bank, have introduced contactless payment terminals at 20 retailers in Lugano. Visa payWave will allow payments under 40CHF ($36) in less than a second. The announcement makes Lugano the first Swiss city to implement payWave contactless payment technology on a large scale. Cornèrcard Contactless cardholders can now [...]

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MasterCard has announced that the sporting goods retailer, Sports Authority and The Home Depot will begin accepting PayPass at its 450 stores and 1,974 retail locations respectively across the US. In addition to using traditional magnetic-stripe payment cards, customers can now tap their contactless cards or devices on electronic readers at check-out to make their [...]

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RFinity is launching an offering that combines near-field transactions, mobile payment, and strong authentication and cryptography on mobile phones that it claims can be used for person-to-person and person-to-vendor transactions, as well as other utilitarian tasks, such as college campus payments, hotel payment and room-access, and event ticketing and sales. The mobile payment industry has [...]

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