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Holders of an American Express Centurion card will soon be able to make purchases by linking their card to a wearable contactless payments chip embedded in a leather bracelet created by Italian fashion house Prada. “Crafted from the finest full-grain Saffiano — a Prada speciality — the double-wrap bracelet is all black save for the […]

Staff at the Warren Manor care facility in Blackpool in the UK are piloting a digital passport that enables them to verify their Covid-19 vaccination, test or recovery status when they arrive at their workplace by scanning their finger. The EN-Covid19 digital passport uses blockchain technology to register staff and store their health credentials securely

PARTNER NEWS: French bank Crédit Agricole du Languedoc is trialling a payments acceptance solution that uses Dejamobile’s ReadyToTap Payment for Merchants technology to enable merchants to accept contactless transactions on a standard Android NFC smartphone. The pilot is being conducted by the bank in collaboration with Crédit Agricole Payment Services and AVEM. The new Encaiss’Phone

Amazon has opened its first cashierless grocery store outside the US on London’s Ealing Broadway, enabling consumers to access the store and pay for their purchases by downloading a QR code to their mobile device and scanning it at the shop entrance. The Amazon Fresh store in the UK capital uses the company’s Just Walk

PARTNER NEWS: NFC testing provider Cilab has made a set of NFC Forum wireless charging specification (WLC) test cases available for use with its ci230 high-speed tester, allowing manufacturers to create modified, extended or fully user-defined pre-certification test cases to ensure their NFC devices meet the new specification’s requirements. WLC makes it possible to use

Moscow Metro is to test a contactless ticketing system that enables passengers to pay their fares using facial recognition payment technology to verify their identity. The biometric FacePay service will “allow paying for travel by ‘face’ at turnstiles and cash desks,” Moscow Metro says. “The system is being tested and will be available to passengers

The UK is to increase the limit for contactless transactions from £45 (US$63) to £100 (US$140), the UK Treasury has announced. “As we begin to open the UK economy and people return to the high street, the contactless limit increase will make it easier than ever before for people to pay for their shopping, providing

The European Union is to present a legislative proposal this month for a digital ‘green pass’ vaccination certificate that will enable residents to prove that they have been inoculated against Covid-19. The move comes as German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom announced that it has submitted a tender to the German government to design and develop

EXHIBITOR NEWS: Fidesmo is launching its Fidesmo Pay wearable payments service in Switzerland, enabling customers of Swiss bank Cembra to upload their bank cards to NFC-enabled wearables and use them to make contactless payments. The payments service will be available on a range of Fidesmo Pay-supporting watch straps, bracelets, key rings and other wearables from