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Public transport users in Nottingham, UK, can now buy credit or an extension to their season ticket with their NFC mobile phone and then transfer it to their multi-operator Robin Hood transit card by simply tapping their card to their NFC device. The Robin Hood Ticketing app enables users to buy season tickets or credit […]

Payment standards body EMVCo, the Fido Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have published a document that explains how their technical specifications can be used to enable more secure and convenient card-based ecommerce transactions. ‘How EMVCo, Fido and W3C Technologies Relate’ focuses on secure card payment during online guest checkout with ecommerce merchants,

Spanish consumers are set to be able to self-manage their digital identity on their mobile device using a blockchain-enabled platform being developed by a consortium of 10 companies that includes leading Spanish banks Banco Santander, Bankia, CaixaBank, and Liberbank. “Self-managed identity enables people to have their personal data in a single digital identity, backed by

Pix, Brazil’s instant payment scheme, has gone live in a “restricted operation phase” prior to full implementation later this month, the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) has revealed. “From November 3 to 15, some customers of the 762 institutions approved to offer Pix will be able to experience the first transactions with Pix, the instant

Israeli payment services provider Isracard has become the first financial company in the country to announce that it is to enable cardholders with an iPhone to make payments using Apple Pay. “Isracard announced to the stock exchange that it has signed an agreement for four years with Apple and will allow payments in the payments

Customers at the Kitasando Coffee shop in Tokyo can now tap an NFC tag with their iPhone to launch the company’s App Clip, place their order and then use Apple Pay to pay for their food and drink. The cash-free Kitasando Coffee outlet is one of the first merchants in Japan to introduce a ‘point

PARTNER NEWS: Antelop Solutions has launched a tokenized card management solution that makes it possible for banks to provide their customers with the ability to view, control, push, update and manage the card details that they have shared with all the different mobile wallet providers and ecommerce merchants they deal with — from within their

Nearly two-thirds of consumers in Europe (63%) have abandoned a digital bank application in the past year, compared with 40% in 2019, according to new research. At the same time, the number now using a mobile-first financial service has increased from 30% to 47% over the same period, with 69% of these users saying they

Google Pay users in India can now earn rewards by taking part in a digital travel game and collecting ‘tickets’ for a virtual journey around the country every time they use the mobile payments service on either their Android or iOS device. The Go India game “requires Google Pay users to virtually visit all cities

All 52,000 Coca-Cola Freestyle soda fountains across the USA will allow customers to order and pay for their drinks directly from their mobile phone by the end of 2020. The company began rolling out its ‘mobile pour’ contactless solution for the Freestyle dispensers in July following a successful pilot in restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia. More