Global contactless payment transaction values will increase from US$7.7tn in 2025 to US$18.1tn in 2030, a rise of 106%, market analysts Juniper Research predict. NFC ticketing and the arrival of open ...

NFC TAG: Lumiio provides a secure way to store and provide emergency contact and important data Five years after it first began partnering with police departments and charities across the UK to ...

STABLECOIN PILOT: UAE taxi passengers can now pay their fares via AE Coin on their mobile phones Passengers using taxi services provided by Abu Dhabi-based Tawasul Transport can now take part in a ...

TAP TO TRANSFER: NFC P2P feature lets Samsung Galaxy users tap their phones to send money Samsung Galaxy owners in the US can now transfer funds directly to a contact’s bank account by just tapping ...

AR PAYMENTS: Alipay plans to roll out support for payment using Meizu and Rokid AR smart glasses Alipay has announced that it has successfully conducted its first e-wallet transaction to use augmented ...

Close to nine in ten (87.1%) of all card payments made in Ireland last year were contactless and more than half of those were made using an NFC mobile phone, Banking & Payments Federation Ireland ...

Adoption of Visa’s Tap to Phone softPOS solution has increased 200% year-on-year globally and by 234% in the ‘highest’ countries — the US, the UK and Brazil — Visa reports. There are now “millions of ...

PROVENANCE: Each piece of clothing has an NFC tag that acts as a digital product passport Every item in Zegna’s new Vellus Aureum range includes an NFC tag that acts as a digital product passport, ...

DIGITAL PASSPORT: Customers can access sustainability details via the QR code on the garment label Dutch jeans brand Garcia is to equip every garment in its range with a digital product passport (DPP) ...

Mastercard is testing a new service that enables cardholders to simply tap their contactless bank card to their NFC smartphone in order to complete an ecommerce or other card-not-present transaction, ...

The FiRa Consortium has published an update to its technical specifications for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology that add support for “advanced UWB applications that require various combinations of ...

TESTING: Cilab’s high speed test solution supports transport ticketing certification PARTNER NEWS: Testing and certification services provider Cetecom Advanced has selected Cilab’s ISO/IEC TS 24192 ...