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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Komerční banka and Visa Europe will launch contactless mobile payments for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S handsets in mid-2012, using the iCarte accessory from Wireless Dynamics. The service is being launched in response to the rising popularity of iPhones, including the latest 4S model, which has a dominant presence in the Czech Republic. It will be possible [...]

Well, we’ve finally had all the confirmations back and have 10 judges in total for this years Contactless and Mobile Awards! We’ve some new additional organisations supporting us this year, mainly due to the fact we’ve opened up the competition to mobile applications. With nominations flooding in already, we’re sure that it will be a [...]

This is a little old (originally released on the 22nd December 2011) but we were looking for something to start the new year with and this fits the bill. Especially as everyone is so sure that 2012 will be THE year for contactless technology to hit the mainstream. At the end of December last year [...]

Six of Germany’s leading banks are to launch new contactless services enabled by Visa payWave in the very near future. BW Bank, comdirect, DKB, Landesbank Berlin, TARGOBANK and Volkswagen Bank have all confirmed their plans to roll out Visa Europe’s industry leading contactless service by the middle of 2012. This marks the largest milestone yet [...]

Visa Europe, Europe’s leading payments technology company, have launched their Visa Mobile Person-to-Person payments and Visa Alerts: two new services designed to help consumers manage their money and make payments using their mobile phones. Announced this morning by Visa Europe Chief Executive Peter Ayliffein his keynote speech at the EFMA conference in Paris, the new services give [...]