It’s all happening at once isn’t it. First the C-op, then AMT Coffee and now Little Chef have announces that it will also be deploying a contactless payment system using Barclaycard technology across all 173 Little Chef roadside restaurants, including its Coffee Tempo brand and Burger King franchises. Following successful rollouts of contactless by Barclays… Read More
AMT Coffee completes its national roll-out of contactless payment systems using Barclaycard technology.
Today’s unveiling of the new AMT Coffee bar in Marylebone, London’s fastest growing rail station, by Adrian Shooter, Managing Director of Chiltern Railways, marks the 65th branch to adopt contactless – a payments system that will allow customers to purchase goods quicker. AMT say that a successful trial of contactless saw almost a thousand customers use… Read More
In the UK, the ‘Co-Op’ becomes first major food retailer to roll out contactless technology
The Co-operative Food will become the UK’s first major grocery retailer to introduce contactless payment in its stores nationwide after joining forces with Barclaycard. The roll-out will begin with a pilot in 100 Co-operative food stores next year after an agreement was signed with Barclaycard in partnership with Visa. If the pilot is successful, The… Read More
HID Global and Inside Contactless turn NFC mobile phones into secure ID and access devices
HID Global, a solution provider for the delivery of secure identity, and INSIDE Contactless, a provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced they have extended their long standing partnership to bring market-leading iCLASS access control and identity credentials to near-field communications (NFC) mobile phones. Embedding iCLASS virtual credentials into NFC mobile phones will… Read More
Standardized Match-on-Card available from market-leader Precise Biometrics
Market-leading Precise Biometrics releases new products for integration of standardized Match-on-Card for a growing market. The products support ISO standards and also leverage the technology in Precise Biometrics’ fingerprint extractor, which is top-ranked in Ongoing MINEX. Builds on ISO standard The Precise BioMatch™ ISO Match-on-Card products builds on the ISO 19794-2 standard, which specifies a minutia… Read More
GUEST OPINION: Contactless. NOT the Emperor’s new clothes
by Gregor Rankin, Head of Marketing, Northern Europe, Ingenico X There has been a flurry of debate around contactless payments recently: Visa has recently announced that it will be increasing its contactless card issuance this year to 12 million, versus Datamonitor’s recent research which found that card issuers, other than Barclaycard, and retailers have been… Read More
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