MasterCard have unveiled their PayPass Wallet Services, a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners. PayPass Wallet Services delivers three distinct components — PayPass Acceptance Network (PayPass Online and PayPass Contactless), PayPass Wallet and PayPass API. These services enable a consistent shopping experience no matter where and how consumers shop, as well as a [...]

MasterCard have released the results of their first PayPass Adoption Study, a quantitative analysis of the changes in U.S. account transaction behavior after adopting a contactless payments solution. This examination of 15 months of payments behaviors offers a rich set of data points and a number of insights into the adoption and use of new [...]

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 [...]

Small-scale pilots are a thing of the past now. When it comes to Contactless / NFC technology, developers are thinking much bigger and better. Citywide projects are in place to bring the benefits of this technology to as many application areas as possible; payments, posters, tourist information services, public transportation and even parking – is [...]

Vianet was invited to Visa’s ‘Insights 11′ conference in Barcelona to demonstrate its groundbreaking contactless payment solution for vending. Here at Contactless Intelligence, we were so impressed with this machine that we invited Vianet to bring it along to the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference 2012, in London on the 26th April. Not sure if it [...]

Nokia have announced an NFC version of the recently-launched Nokia Lumia 610, the most affordable Windows smartphone in the Lumia range. Orange will be the first operator to range the Lumia 610 NFC, which can pair with NFC accessories and read NFC tags. The Lumia 610 NFC also has the hardware and software enablers for [...]

This past year has seen Contactless and NFC technology move beyond just facilitating contactless payments. A number of companies have embraced contactless and NFC technology, be it with location marketing, museum guides, and even on-line note taking. At the Contactless and Mobile awards, we are looking for the Innovation of the Year that uses contactless [...]

The Polish nation’s enthusiasm for contactless and mobile payments was highlighted by research commissioned by First Data in October 2011, in which 51% of Poles surveyed said they would use a mobile device to make payments compared with just 25% of respondents in the UK/Ireland. Additionally, nearly a third of Polish consumers said they would [...]