Exclusive: Payment start-up captivates audience with no fee proposition
London launch on March 20 for m-payments offering Read more ...

Can UK Payment Council mobile scheme succeed?
Can the UK Payment Council's proposed m-payments scheme succeed against stiff competition perceived as more cutting edge and efficient? Closer connectivity is vital, says Eddie Wiseman, director of financial services EMEA at Equinix. Read more ...

Retailers to play a major role in payments “within five years”
Merchants will almost certainly be running m-payment networks of their own and will challenge the existing ecosystem, says Michael Kuemmerle, group executive, Mobile Security at Giesecke & Devrient. Read more ...

Amex calls for mobile standards
Networks should act as "leaders" to ensure interoperability

American Express has sent out a strong message asking for common standards and ubiquity in mobile payments and especially in mobile wallets, to protect investment in existing networks.
Read more ...

Contactless Payments - Winning Gold?
In 2007 the UK Payments Council agreed that credit and debit cards would include contactless technology. Despite this, contactless is yet to go mainstream. Could the Olympics be a turning point?

Article by Ben Snowman, Jens Baumgarten, Georg Wuebker of Simon-Kucher & Partners.
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More questions than answers as the industry looks to the future
“If you are not in mobile, you won’t be in payments”

If there was one clear message from this week’s Future of Cards and Payments conference, it is that there is a lack of a clear pathway to tomorrow.
Read more ...

Contactless hack raises question of trust

Media stories are nothing new but can scare already nervous customers

The recent publicity over the hacking of personal details on Barclaycard contactless cards has highlighted the issue of customer trust in the technology. Read more ...

"Don’t wait too long before committing to NFC” warns MasterCard’s Lambert
Unprecedented change raises stakes for banks
The card and payments business is currently facing massive uncertainty and nowhere is this being experienced more acutely than in the processing and acquiring business.
Read more ...

Mobile wallet offerings go head to head
Significant recent moves in m-payments as major players such as Google, PayPal and Isis line up their mobile wallet offerings against those that are being planned by the payment networks and banks
Read more ...

Where to put the NFC secure element?
While some claim it does not matter where the NFC secure element is located - in the handset, SIM or microSD card - there are others who say the lack of standardisation is a barrier to widespread deployment of NFC payments.
Read more ...

Russia leads Europe in m-payments usage
Emerging payments report
MasterCard Worldwide has revealed the findings of its ‘Tech Nation’ poll, revealing which European countries are leading the way with new payment technologies such as mobile and contactless.
Read more ...

Special NFC report: NXP takes advantage of dominant NFC position
Supplying 65% of NFC chips in NFC enabled terminals, chip manufacturer NXP has a strategically important position in the development of the secure mobile communications protocol. It was a joint developer of NFC in 2002 and has been an active member of the NFC Forum since them. Read more ...

Five days at EFMA and some significant messages later
Annich McIntosh reports from five days in a Paris hotel basement in a heatwave.
After much thought about the major messages to share with Card & Payments World readers after a gruelling five days with EFMA, it is clear what has to be the first on the list – that the people attending the Wednesday to Friday Cards and Payments summit ought to have been in the Monday and Tuesday Mobile Payments conference. Read more ...

EMV or NFC? Major investment behind both make future for payments uncertain
In the US, SCTN is excited about the possibilities EMV chip cards and contactless payments will bring.
In Japan, Sharp is this month launching an NFC tablet primarily aimed at retailers who wish to read and write to customer loyalty and employee ID card. Read more ...

Blurring of terms bodes well for contactless payments
Mobile payments, contactless payments, NFC, POS acceptance, P2P transfers – its all becoming the same thing
Read more ...

Exclusive: Payment start-up captivates audience with no fee proposition
London launch on March 20 for m-payments offering Read more ...

Can UK Payment Council mobile scheme succeed?
Can the UK Payment Council's proposed m-payments scheme succeed against stiff competition perceived as more cutting edge and efficient? Closer connectivity is vital, says Eddie Wiseman, director of financial services EMEA at Equinix. Read more ...

Retailers to play a major role in payments “within five years”
Merchants will almost certainly be running m-payment networks of their own and will challenge the existing ecosystem, says Michael Kuemmerle, group executive, Mobile Security at Giesecke & Devrient. Read more ...

Amex calls for mobile standards
Networks should act as "leaders" to ensure interoperability

American Express has sent out a strong message asking for common standards and ubiquity in mobile payments and especially in mobile wallets, to protect investment in existing networks.
Read more ...

Contactless Payments - Winning Gold?
In 2007 the UK Payments Council agreed that credit and debit cards would include contactless technology. Despite this, contactless is yet to go mainstream. Could the Olympics be a turning point?

Article by Ben Snowman, Jens Baumgarten, Georg Wuebker of Simon-Kucher & Partners.
Read more ...

More questions than answers as the industry looks to the future
“If you are not in mobile, you won’t be in payments”

If there was one clear message from this week’s Future of Cards and Payments conference, it is that there is a lack of a clear pathway to tomorrow.
Read more ...

Contactless hack raises question of trust

Media stories are nothing new but can scare already nervous customers

The recent publicity over the hacking of personal details on Barclaycard contactless cards has highlighted the issue of customer trust in the technology. Read more ...

"Don’t wait too long before committing to NFC” warns MasterCard’s Lambert
Unprecedented change raises stakes for banks
The card and payments business is currently facing massive uncertainty and nowhere is this being experienced more acutely than in the processing and acquiring business.
Read more ...

Mobile wallet offerings go head to head
Significant recent moves in m-payments as major players such as Google, PayPal and Isis line up their mobile wallet offerings against those that are being planned by the payment networks and banks
Read more ...

Where to put the NFC secure element?
While some claim it does not matter where the NFC secure element is located - in the handset, SIM or microSD card - there are others who say the lack of standardisation is a barrier to widespread deployment of NFC payments.
Read more ...

Russia leads Europe in m-payments usage
Emerging payments report
MasterCard Worldwide has revealed the findings of its ‘Tech Nation’ poll, revealing which European countries are leading the way with new payment technologies such as mobile and contactless.
Read more ...

Special NFC report: NXP takes advantage of dominant NFC position
Supplying 65% of NFC chips in NFC enabled terminals, chip manufacturer NXP has a strategically important position in the development of the secure mobile communications protocol. It was a joint developer of NFC in 2002 and has been an active member of the NFC Forum since them. Read more ...

Five days at EFMA and some significant messages later
Annich McIntosh reports from five days in a Paris hotel basement in a heatwave.
After much thought about the major messages to share with Card & Payments World readers after a gruelling five days with EFMA, it is clear what has to be the first on the list – that the people attending the Wednesday to Friday Cards and Payments summit ought to have been in the Monday and Tuesday Mobile Payments conference. Read more ...

EMV or NFC? Major investment behind both make future for payments uncertain
In the US, SCTN is excited about the possibilities EMV chip cards and contactless payments will bring.
In Japan, Sharp is this month launching an NFC tablet primarily aimed at retailers who wish to read and write to customer loyalty and employee ID card. Read more ...

Blurring of terms bodes well for contactless payments
Mobile payments, contactless payments, NFC, POS acceptance, P2P transfers – its all becoming the same thing
Read more ...

Ownership of security keys remains stumbling block to NFC rollouts
Latest Card World report on the fast-moving mobile payments market Read more ...

Mobile payments and the new ecosystem to transform industry
Consumer will make the choices in newly emerging world
“Nothing will ever be the same again”
Last bridging year before mobile payments are mainstream
Security will remain a strong differentiator Read more ...

What to expect from iPhone5: NFC and biometrics?
iPhone has a few issues to solve before launching its iPhone5. These are little irritations such as useless reception. But Apple is unlikely to stop at simply putting right the problems. Read more ...

Mobile banking to eclipse cards in Africa
Wave of product launches on continent where only 4% of the population are banked

“Everybody is trying to launch something at the moment. We have had calls from marketing companies and system integrators who want to become an m-payments provider in Africa” - Ahmed Faheem, Utiba. Read more ...

‘When’ not ‘if’ contactless payments happen, argues Stuart Neal of Barclaycard
Major supermarket announcements expected ‘in three months’ Read more ...