Barclaycard launched their PayTag solution last month. This is a video of their media launch event and features (among others), David Chan, CEO of Barclaycard Consumer Europe. David  introduces PayTag and talks about the evolution of credit cards and payment innovation.

We have written much in our weekly news letters about the need for better education of  both retailers and consumers when it comes to contactless payments. After all, following the search term ‘contactless’ on twitter gives a good indication how many people receive their contactless payment cards, look forward to using them and then are [...]

Barclaycard Wireless Festival 2012 is to be the first music event in the UK to be fully contactless enabled, giving music lovers the ability to enjoy the experience without having to carry cash. All vendors at the festival will accept contactless payments, allowing customers to spend less time queuing and more time listening to music. [...]

BOKU, Inc., the up and coming global player in online payments, have announced anagreement with Sprint that will allow Sprint customers to easily and securely charge online purchases to their Sprint wireless bill through a simple two-step authorization process. Sprint customers will be able to make purchases online from BOKU’s extensive merchant network of Web-based [...]

With the release of the barclaycard PayTag, we thought readers might be interested in seeing the promotional (and instructional) video that accompanies the PayTag launch. Notice how the video really goes to some length to emphasis that you do not need an NFC phone for this product (or event the mobile wallet for that matter).

Barclaycard have launched Barclaycard PayTag. Millions of Barclaycard customers will be offered the chance to make payments with any mobile phone by simply sticking a Barclaycard PayTag to the back of their handset.  Available at no cost, and exclusively to Barclaycard Visa cardholders, Barclaycard PayTag is an extension of a customer’s credit card account. At a [...]

WHSmith, one of the UK’s largest retailers of stationery, books, newspapers, magazines and impulse products, has become the latest business in the UK to go contactless in partnership with Streamline & Visa Europe. The new contactless payment option will initially be available in 46 major travel locations, such as London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Mainline [...]

Barclaycard is to partner with the NEC Group that, Barclaycard believes, will offer NEC’s 12 million customers enriched entertainment and payment experiences. The move will see Barclaycard become official payment partner of The Ticket Factory, one of the UK’s leading national ticketing agents and the LG Arena, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) and National Indoor [...]