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The UK could increase the limit for contactless transactions from £45 (US$61) to £100 (US$136), according to reports in the British press. “The idea was raised to the Treasury by UK Finance, a City lobby group, who said the move would also help reduce contact during the coronavirus pandemic amid a new record high in […]

KNOWLEDGE CENTRE: Collectible coin grading company Collectors Universe is deploying two million NFC tags to enable collectors and dealers to authenticate rare and valuable coins and banknotes. The rollout by the company’s Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) follows “overwhelmingly positive feedback” to an initial deployment of 100,000 HID Trusted NFC tags to test compatibility and

Google Pay users in India can now access personalised information about their spending habits in 2020 using a new feature integrated into the payment service’s app. The feature is available to both Android and iOS users and can be accessed via a rewind button displayed on a banner at the top of the Google Pay

Residents of Los Angeles County in the USA will be able to verify that they have been inoculated against Covid-19 and receive a reminder to have a second dose of the vaccine via a digital record they can store in their Apple Wallet or “competing Google platform”. The digital vaccine record “is initially geared toward

Samsung Pay users in the USA are no longer able to earn Samsung Rewards points each time they make a purchase using the payments service. Samsung has updated the terms and conditions of its rewards programme, and these show that users are now able to earn Samsung Rewards points only when making purchases from the

Passengers using Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) will soon be able to travel on the system’s heavy rail network by generating a single-use QR code ticket on their mobile phone that they can scan at station turnstiles. “Passengers can travel on the MTR with [a] QR code simply by binding AlipayHK to MTR Mobile

Netherlands-based seed potato supplier HZPC is piloting smart delivery bags that use an integrated NFC chip to enable customers to download information about the potatoes a bag contains with a tap of their smartphone. HZPC is trialling more than 1,000 of its “smart bigbags” with customers in Bulgaria, France, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Turkey,

Collectors, retailers and auction houses will soon be able to authenticate bottles of rare vintage whisky by using their smartphone to tap an anti-tamper NFC bottle closure that connects to a digital certification record held on a private blockchain. The system has been developed to tackle the counterfeiting of collectable whiskies and uses radiocarbon dating

Merchants in India can now use a standard NFC mobile phone to accept contactless RuPay domestic card payments valued at up to 5,000 rupees (US$68). The RuPay POS solution enables merchants to turn their Android smartphones into POS terminals and accept tap-and-pay payments from RuPay cardholders via the PayNearby payments app. Alongside the rollout, merchants

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has completed the rollout of its Omny contactless fare payment system across the whole of the city, enabling passengers to pay for their tickets with their contactless bank card or mobile wallet at all 472 subway stations and on 5,800 buses across the city. Passengers will also be