Face-based payments offer the potential to improve customer convenience and increase checkout speeds in stores but require consumer education to be built into the user experience to alleviate security concerns, an in-depth study of services currently on offer in China has found. The study was conducted by user experience experts Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) and […]

PARTNER NEWS: NFC-based intelligent labels and packages offer “the safety and security necessary to help tackle the spread of Covid-19 while giving scientists, medical staff and patients the ability to interact with products so they can verify authenticity, check expiration dates and even gain useful insights into the nature of the virus,” NXP has explained.

Samsung has announced plans to introduce “a new Samsung Pay experience” that combines “an innovative debit card backed by a cash management account”. The service will go live “this summer” in partnership with online personal finance company SoFi. “Our vision is to help consumers better manage their money so that they can achieve their dreams

Costa Rica has announced plans to implement a national, multimodal transit ticketing infrastructure that includes support for both QR mobile payments and EMV contactless cards and devices. The new Electronic Payment System for Paid Public Transport of Persons (SPETP) infrastructure “will allow users to access all public transport services through electronic payment, in order to

The Car Connectivity Consortium has announced the completion of an NFC-based digital key specification designed to deliver “a standardized ecosystem that enables mobile devices to store, authenticate, and share digital keys for vehicles in a secure, privacy-preserving way that works everywhere”. Members of the consortium include vehicle manufacturers General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen,

PARTNER NEWS: HID Global has announced that employee ID card issuers can now use its Seos digital credential technology to let staff use smart watches, watchbands, rings and other devices to gain access to buildings, log in to PCs and cloud applications, make payments at vending machines, and more. HID Global is working with wearable

The contactless payments growth rate in the Nordic region has doubled during the first four months of this year, regional payments processor Nets reports, “as social distancing steers Nordic consumers away from chip and PIN”. “In the first 16 weeks of 2019, contactless usage, as a proportion of all card transactions performed in Denmark, Norway

The number of US consumers reporting that they are using contactless payments in stores has increased by 11%, an Amex survey has found. 50% of the surveyed consumers who have used contactless agree that it is safer for their health than using cash. Read the rest of Amex reports shift in US consumer attitudes to

NJ Transit is replacing 14 of its ticket vending machines (TVMs) with new machines that support contactless cards and mobile payments. “The new TVMs have improved features making them quicker and easier for customers to use and are fully ADA accessible,” New Jersey’s public transportation operator says. “NJ Transit customers will have the capability to

“With Paisa Bolega — voice alerts of transactions — shopkeepers will be able to hear aloud instant confirmation of all payments received through their BharatPe QR, without touching the phone… This does away [with] the need for the merchant to check his phone repeatedly to see if money has come in.” Read the rest of