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Barclaycard explores contactless future
Barclaycard is set to ramp up its investment in contactless technology with the introduction of new form factors, including NFC stickers for mobile handsets and pre-paid wristbands for festival goers. The bank’s new strategies for contactless – which also entail cloud-based data initiatives – were unveiled at a roundtable held with a variety of high [...]
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Commonwealth Bank commits to contactless
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank says it will have more than 20,000 contactless payments readers in stores by the end of the year – for use with 4 million issued cards – after signing up another two major retailers to the technology. Retailer Bunnings will begin a pilot in all South Australian stores in November before a [...]
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Galeries Lafayette tests PayPass
The current market is seeing rapid changes in consumers’ payment habits and expectations. Quick and uncomplicated payment is becoming the standard – and ideally without having to wait for sales slips and time-consuming transaction processes. The Galeries Lafayette in Berlin is one of the first department stores in Germany to test the contactless PayPass system. [...]
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SideTap MicroSD secure memory card
SideTap MicroSD secure memory card Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS), recently acquired by Datacard Group, says it’s mobile payments personalization platform – CardWizard Perso-to-Go – has qualified Tyfone’s latest SideTap MicroSD secure memory card for mobile phone-based NFC payments. The platform personalizes – at the branch level or back office – cardholder information onto the chip [...]
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Mobile contactless payments in South Korea: A recipe for future success?
Buoyed by continued growth, South Korea’s mobile contactless payments market will enjoy average compound annual growth rates in the realm of 50% – according to Celent. In a new report, Celent offers an analysis of trends and prospects for South Korea’s mobile contactless payments market. The report looks at the product lineups that are driving [...]
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