NFC World

Consumers in the Cologne-Bonn area of Germany will soon be able to receive digital receipts on their NFC smartphone for in-store purchases at merchants taking part in a pilot of a new digital receipt service being launched by the Sparkasse group of savings banks. Sparkasse’s bill.place app will be available for NFC-enabled Android and iOS […]

Motorists purchasing Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 crossover utility vehicle (CUV) in North America will be able to pay for electric vehicle (EV) charging, parking, food and beverages directly from the fully electric car’s infotainment screen. “Hyundai is developing a hassle-free in-car payment system for the Ioniq 5,” the vehicle manufacturer explains. “This system will bring in-car

Passengers on public transportation services in Chicago in the US can now use an Android NFC smartphone to make tap-and-go fare payments by uploading the Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) virtual Ventra transit card to Google Pay. Once they have added a new Ventra card or transferred an existing one to Google Pay, users can pay

Collectors and investors purchasing a limited edition “crypto stamp” issued by Austrian Post will soon be able to authenticate their purchase by scanning an NFC chip embedded in the packaging of the physical version of the postage stamp with their smartphone. Crypto stamp 3.0 is the third in the postal service provider’s series of stamps

Passengers travelling on UK train services are to get more contactless and digital ticketing options across the rail network and will be able to buy tickets and access fare and timetable information via a single integrated website, the UK government has announced. The “significant rollout” of smart ticketing systems will include “new ways to pay

Almost nine in 10 card present transactions conducted globally (86.1%) were made using EMV chip-enabled payment cards between January and December 2020, according to standards body EMVCo. The total number of EMV payments cards in circulation worldwide reached 10.8bn by the end of 2020, an increase of nearly 1bn on the previous year, with two-thirds

The European Union’s proposed digital Covid certificate that will enable EU residents to confirm that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, received a negative test result or recovered from the illness is “well on track to be ready by the end of June”, according to the European Commission. The EC’s proposal to introduce the EU

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has extended the deadline for the implementation of strong customer authentication (SCA) for online purchases by a further six months. Previously merchants had until 14 September 2021 to ensure that all ecommerce transactions in the UK were compliant with the SCA customer identity verification regulation, but this deadline has

PARTNER NEWS: Market Pay is enabling merchants to use a standard Android NFC smartphone or tablet to accept contactless payments at the point of sale without needing any additional hardware. The French in-store and online payments specialist’s software point of sale (sPOS) PayWish solution uses Dejamobile’s ReadyToTap Payments for Merchants technology to let users turn

Cyclists can now fit their bicycle with smart inner tubes that enable them to accurately measure their tyre pressures by scanning an NFC chip embedded near the valve with their smartphone. The pressure sensor incorporated in the Tubo-MTB PSENS tube is battery free and makes it “the first smart bicycle tube in the world”, according