By Visa Europe Visa Europe has always led the way with the creation and rollout of new payment technologies. Today is no different. Our vision of the future of payments is well underway and we’ve committed to investing €100 million per year in the creation of these new technologies. We’re developing and rolling out a [...]

Neil Garner, CEO of Proxama reasons why 2012 is the year that NFC makes its breakthrough This time last year, many people speculated that 2011 was going to be the year that near field  communications (NFC) would hit the big time and become recognised as the new ‘must have’ in consumers’ phones. The prospect of [...]

Proxama CEO Dr. Neil Garner is upbeat when talking about the adoption by marketing agencies of NFC technology and shows C-ITV one of the campaigns that they have recently been involved in. A campaign that ensured that Proxama was nominated as a finalist in the Contactless & Mobile Award for Best  Marketing Campaign using Contactless [...]

Head of Mobile Payment at Proxama – David Harbidge, talks to C-ITV on the ARM booth at Mobile World Congress 2012 about how Proxama and ARM have been working together to produce a demonstration of trusted execution environments. David also demonstrates how one NFC phone can be used as a merchant terminal to accept payment [...]

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 [...]

Asda, the UK’s second largest supermarket retailer, will this summer become the latest business in the UK to introduce contactless payments in partnership with Streamline and Visa Europe. The new contactless payment option will be available across 25 stores from July onwards. The contactless technology, provided by Streamline and Visa Europe, means that some Asda [...]

The German Banking Industry Committee (Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft) today launched its “girogo” project: a huge contactless payment trial in Hanover, Braunschweig and Wolfsburg. Over 1.3 million bank and savings bank customers will now be offered tap-and-go facilities in an array of shops and filling stations for fast and easy payment of sums up to 20 Euros. [...]