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Ugo, an open NFC mobile wallet developed by Canadian banks President’s Choice Financial and TD Bank Group, is now available to customers of all three major Canadian ...
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The NFC Forum has published a candidate specification for a new NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) standard that will enable NFC Forum tags already in use for other applications to also store ...
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 ...
The UK city of Manchester has completed the rollout of open loop contactless ticketing across its entire bus and tram network and announced plans to integrate rail services into the system in three ...
A record 94.6% of all eligible in-store card transactions were made using contactless in the UK in 2024, Barclays reports, “surpassing the previous year’s record of 93.4%”. Shoppers also used the ...
The RAIN Alliance is to create a new standard that will enable manufacturers to integrate support for Ultra High Frequency (UHF) tag reading into standard smartphones, making it possible for consumers ...
A new European Commission ruling will require Apple to open up a range of iOS connectivity features to third-party devices so that, for example, an iPhone owner will ...