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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Visa has launched its ‘Tap to Add Card’ service in Ukraine, Georgia and South Africa, enabling cardholders to add their bank card to their mobile wallet via NFC by simply tapping their card to their ...

Three of South Korea’s largest convenience store chains have all agreed to adopt a new face biometrics payments system that lets shoppers make payments in stores without either their bank card or ...

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) ...

A new Digital Credentials API that will allow visitors to a website to verify their identity using a driver’s license or a national identification card stored in their digital wallet has now entered ...

SIMPLER PAYMENTS: Alipay’s tap-and-pay service turns a smartphone into an NFC tag reader Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments provider and the pioneer of QR mobile payments, has launched a new ...