Eagle Creek lets luggage owners share their stories via NFC

“Travellers can see a personalised dashboard that shows all the places they’ve travelled, along [with] a leaderboard that ranks their mileage against the other owners of its line of Caldera luggage. Eagle Creek also provides a lost-and-found feature to help people locate misplaced bags, warranty registration features and detailed product information and videos. Caldera owners

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Saudi banks pilot blockchain-based cardless ATM withdrawals

“The Saudi Arabian trial will enable local consumers to use their faces and blockchain-based apps to withdraw money from cashpoint machines instead of PINs. The ID authentication prototype, currently under test, can communicate across banks and uses blockchain to confirm an individual’s identity without accessing the bank’s database.” Read the rest of Saudi banks pilot

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Societe Generale lets cardholders add personalized bank cards to Apple Pay

“Societe Generale offers over 180 personalised physical cards, but this marks the first time customers will see the exact same card as they have in their wallet in Apple Pay. ‘With Apple Pay’s personalisation mirroring our cards’ personalisation, we are demonstrating continuity between our digital and our physical products,’ said Julien Claudon, head of card

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Visa to let merchants offer installment plans to cardholders

“Visa’s instalment capabilities are changing the game by allowing issuers to leverage an existing payment account consumers already have and are familiar with, instead of asking them to submit to a credit check, download an app or open another line of credit,” said Sam Shrauger, senior vice president, global head of issuer and consumer solutions,

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Visa Deepens Push into Tokenization with Planned Acquisition of Rambus Payments and Ticketing Unit

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Visa plans to buy the payments and ticketing unit of U.S.-based chip company Rambus for $75 million, as the payments network seeks to expand tokenization beyond Visa cards, including to bank accounts used for real-time payments, as well as to transactions processed by domestic networks. Related stories, automatically

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SELFBLUE. Improved the user experience of the “Social drinks” feature on the mobile app

With this update, the mobile app will show the user: On which vending machine or, alternatively, on which type of vending machine you can use free drinks; Optionally, on which selection or which price to use the free drinks. Furthermore, for vending operators, the maximum number of free drinks that can be sent each time

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EU offers issuers extra time to implement strong customer authentication

“In order to avoid unintended negative consequences for some payment service users after 14 September 2019, CAs [national competent authorities] may decide to work with PSPs [payment service providers] and relevant stakeholders, including consumers and merchants, to provide limited additional time to allow issuers to migrate to authentication approaches that are compliant with SCA [strong

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Public Transport Victoria reports strong takeup for Mobile myki transit cards

Nearly 100,000 travellers in the Australian state of Victoria have used the Mobile myki NFC-based mobile transit ticketing service since its launch in March with adoption set to accelerate further after the addition of support for the Apple iPhone, which is planned for 2019-20. In the first 24 hours following its launch on 28 March,

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US Payments Forum sets out best practices for growing contactless payments adoption

Customer and cashier education, experience and communication at the point of sale (POS) are all key factors that need to be addressed to boost contactless payments adoption in the US and overcome the currently fragmented experience, according to the US Payments Forum. Its Consumer Experience at the Contactless Point-of-Sale white paper, published this month, sets

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