Mobey Forum, the global leader in defining a sustainable and prosperous mobile financial services ecosystem, has released the market’s first comprehensive white paper specifying implementer guidelines for mobile remote payments. The white paper will be of particular interest to senior decision-makers at financial institutions, and informs readers on how mobile remote payment technology can effectively… Read More
MASTERCARD and NAGRAID Security introduce new display cards with extended features for secure banking applications
NagraID Security, a subsidiary of the Kudelski Group has just announced that its families of display cards have passed MasterCard’s (CSI – Card Structure & Integrity) approval process, demonstrating the required levels of durability, safety and compliance to ISO standards required for the commercial launch of banking cards and the introduction into MasterCard’s brand standards… Read More
China Unicom Adopts SIMpass for Mobile Payments
China Unicom Beijing Branch and Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co. (BMAC) have jointly launched a new mobile payment service using Watchdata’ SIMpass™ technology. The China Unicom “All-in-One Mobile Card” service comes with a custom-made mobile phone, which integrates the SIMpass™ antenna at the back of the phone, enabling its subscriber to use the… Read More
Shock! Horror! No NFC on iPhone 4! Is this the end for NFC adoption?
If like us you were watching the unveiling of the iPhone 4 at Apple’s WWDC to see if the much hyped NFC addition to the iPhone was going to be announced – you were in for a disappointment. With so many contactless/NFC industry commentators banging on about how Apple could ‘save/boost’ NFC applications (including the… Read More
FidBook, the first NFC application enabling easy-load loyalty cards on a NFC phone is launched in Nice.
We all know that NFC offers the opportunity to have multiple contactless services on one mobile. Those Services are independent applications of different providers (Banks, Transport companies, Retailers etc.). But in addition to that, transport and payment services consumers are eager to use NFC phones as a wallet for loyalty cards and coupons. So AIRTAG… Read More
Gemalto Selected for the Turkish ePassport Personalization Program
Gemalto has announced its selection by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey for its ePassport program. Gemalto provides its Coesys Issuance solution for the personalization of new electronic passports for Turkish citizens, including the certificate authority solution and associated integration services. For Turkey’s 72.5 million citizens, electronic passports are issued for new… Read More
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