Claire Maslen of Telefonica O2 in the UK talks from Cartes 2011 about the O2 money business and the continuation of O2 media, the sister business to their NFC-based wallet business. Claire talks about how O2 are now bringing these elements together to deliver coupons and vouchers directly their customers, through their phones. As Claire [...]

This past Cartes 2011, the C-ITV team were invited onto the MasterCard booth to speak to some of the management about their product and MasterCard solutions. From Mobile to pre-paid contactless cards (and wristbands!) to the company’s activities in the e-commerce area. This video also includes a brief demonstration of the TurkCell mobile payment application.

MasterCard and mFoundry this week unveiled an international collaboration that they say will take mobile banking another step forward by enabling more banks and credit unions to give their customers the option to pay for items with their mobile phones. In addition to the partnership, MasterCard announced that it has made a strategic investment in [...]

Earlier this month at Cartes 2011 we were lucky enough to speak to Dr. Manfred Müller , Executive Vice President of the Identive Group, Inc. who spoke to us about the groups exciting activities in the NFC arena and shared the news relating to the corporate brand of the Identive Group expanding to cover companies [...]

We do this every year for Cartes. Our editor takes all our B-Roll footage and puts together a little video that kind of sums up Cartes for us. This years film reminded us about the NXP NFC bike (try saying that 10 times fast!), the constant tagging of badges via phone, Watchdata’s crazy foam-rubber guy [...]

Identity was a topic that was covered in detail this year at Cartes 2011. We spoke to both Gemalto and HID about their solutions and approaches to delivering a full identity solution.

Money may make the world go around but Mobile Payments may help it go a little faster. At Cartes 2011 we spoke to a couple of new players in the industry about their feeling on mobile payments.

Want to know how Cartes 2011 is doing? We spoke with Exhibition Director Isabelle Alfano about this years show and how the event is shaping up against previous years.