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 [...]

Australia will be the first country to pilot QkR™ by MasterCard, a new queue-busting mobile payment application developed by MasterCard that lets movie goers at selected La Premiere Hoyts cinemas order food and drinks directly from their seats by using their smart phone. The new QkR by MasterCard in-cinema smart ordering service will be piloted [...]

Following on from its Kaching unveiling last month, Commonwealth Bank today released its latest mobile banking app Commbank Kaching, one of the banking industry’s most-eagerly anticipated apps in recent years.  The app is now available to download free from the App Store. Commonwealth Bank says that Commbank Kaching will redefine the way Australians pay each other, [...]

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 [...]