As readers of C-ITV and contactless Cities blogs know, Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is adding multiple mobile phone-based payment options to its range of mobile banking services. Munich’s Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) ha announced that it is providing the technology to allow secure contactless payments using mobile phones featuring NFC. The [...]

In a press release this week, Woolworths Limited (Woolworths) in Australia announced it is on track to rollout Visa’s PayWave technology from 2012 following a successful in‐store pilot. Visa PayWave credit cardholders will be able to pay for their purchases without the need for a PIN or signature for transactions up to $100, making the [...]

Commonwealth Bank today unveiled Commbank Kaching*, a world first in mobile technology that will redefine the way Commonwealth Bank customers can pay, bringing international cutting edge technology to Australian’s palms and pockets. Commbank Kaching combines peer-to-peer payments via the phone’s contacts and email addresses, and in a world-first; social payments via a user’s Facebook® friends along with NFC [...]