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Vodafone Wallet adds MasterCard
Vodafone Wallet users will be able to pay for goods and services contactlessly using their MasterCard cards, with the service scheduled to launch to consumers in European markets within weeks. Contactless card payments using Vodafone Wallet require a Vodafone NFC SIM and are supported on more than 60 Android smartphones. Customers can simply: Activate the [...]
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UK contactless card use skyrockets
Spending by British consumers on their contactless cards has increased more than five-fold in the last 12 months, according to MasterCard’s UK spending data. Cardholders have driven 560% year-on-year growth in the value of transactions, up from a 373% increase in the year to July 2014, showing that the adoption of contactless payments is continuing [...]
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Advanced Payments – Which paths to success?
PCM in partnership with Edgar, Dunn & Co. and American Express unveil the findings of the latest Advanced Payments Survey. The annual Advanced Payments Survey, which this year has been produced by PCM in conjunction with American Express and written by consultancy Edgar, Dunn & Co. (EDC), has become one of the benchmark indicators of [...]
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Increasing appetite for mobile contactless payments in Germany
Mobile contactless payments based mobile payments are gradually gaining prominence in Germany, with consumer preference for secure payment services also gaining ground, finds a new report by Timetric. According to the report, mobile penetration witnessed a healthy growth during the review period, rising from 128.3% in 2010 to 134.3% in 2014. One of the primary [...]
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Global NFC handset sales drive payments cool factor
As the world mourns the loss of a former king of the handset manufacturing world and Microsoft licks its wounds in writing down about $7.6 billion on the Nokia division, there is reason for optimism and excitement elsewhere in the handset manufacturing industry and this spells excellent news for the payments industry. The good news [...]
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