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SIMalliance speaks to C-ITV

SIMalliance Board Director, Paul Naldrett speaks to C-ITV at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about the role of the SIMalliance within the smart payment sector, the organisations position on NFC/Mobile Payments and what the SIMalliance is doing to help advance the market for mobile payments.

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SPA

Smart Payments Association speaks to C-ITV

SPA spokesperson Jukka Yliuntinen spoke to C-ITV at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference about the organisations objectives. With 900 million smart payment card issued in 2011 of which 130 million were contactless and of those 130 million 80% were dual interface, it shows just how smart payments are being adopted by consumers in general and [...]

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American Express moves forward on Isis Mobile Wallet

American Express and Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, today announced an agreement to make American Express’ U.S. Consumer, OPEN® Small Business and Serve Cards available in the Isis Mobile Wallet. American Express Cardmembers will be able to shop, tap and pay with their mobile device equipped [...]

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Access

IATA partners with Access IS for NFC passenger processing

Access IS has become an IATA (International Air Transport Association) Strategic Partner in order to participate with the development of a standard to assist the airline industry accelerate the adoption of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology for secure, efficient passenger processing. Major airports and airlines worldwide use Access boarding gate readers (BGRs), and passport readers. [...]

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99Bill

99Bill’s smartphone card reader to enable mobile payment in China

99Bill Corporation, China’s leading electronic financial service provider, announced the official launch of its new mobile payment product 99Bill Card Reader. By simply plugging the tiny 99Bill Card Reader into Smartphone audio jack, merchants can accept bank card and credit card payments on the go, and make more sales quickly. The patented solution supports both [...]

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smarcom

Smarcom’s smarpay; speed, simplicity and security

By Fabienne Scheidegger, smarcom Convenient payment via mobile phone has become available to the general public – smarcom, a Swiss company, with its smarpay™ payment system is making sure of this. The project is Europe’s largest installation of this payment method for vending machines. Selecta, one of the largest vending providers worldwide, has more than 2,200 vending machines [...]

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CARTES unveils themes for 2012: Mobile Payment and Security in the Cloud

The 2012 CARTES Exhibition & Conference (formerly “CARTES et IDentification”) will take place at Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition centre between 6 and 8 November 2012. This year, 2 major themes explored at the show will be mobile payment and security in the Cloud, and the special guest country will be India.  2011 saw strong growth in [...]

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Major Retail Brands Select VeriFone GlobalBay Mobile POS

VeriFone Systems, Inc. today announced that New Balance and Samsonite have joined the ranks of major retail brands that have selected VeriFone GlobalBay’s Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution. VeriFone GlobalBay mPOS makes it possible engage the customer in a more meaningful way by untethering the store associate from a fixed location POS register to [...]

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