Posted on 05 April 2011 by
Our North America team hosted their annual Industry Analyst Day event in Boston. Over 30 analysts from 16 different firms gathered with key Gemalto executives, including Olivier Piou, CEO and Paul Beverly, EVP of Marketing and North America President
Posted on 15 April 2011 by
Recently, I talked about some of the work we are doing with NFC-based mobile payments, and gave some background on the secure element needed to make these payments. Well, in the meantime we announced another piece of the puzzle for making NFC implementations easier for mobile operators and banks.
Posted on 26 May 2011 by
If you were following the news last Friday you’ll have seen that major advances have been made in introducing mobile phone contactless payment systems. Indeed, as reported by Vlad Savov at Engadget (alongside many others), Orange and Barclaycard have launched ‘Quick Tap’ NFC mobile payments in the UK. The demand is there for contactless payments. […]
Posted on 10 June 2011 by
Despite all the recent hype around mobile payments and NFC with announcements from Orange and Barclaycard in the UK and Google Wallet launching in the US with Citi and MasterCard there is still a certain amount of skepticism. Consumer attitudes vary quite radically, depending on when they were surveyed and where they live.
Posted on 08 July 2011 by
You may have seen our announcement yesterday with UniCredit in Slovakia where we were selected to supply stickers that contain a contactless payment function. These little beauties based on MasterCard PayPass technology can be stuck to any object turning it into a banking card. This means you no longer have to leave the house with […]
Posted on 17 August 2011 by
Are we getting closer to the day where we can pay for goods and services with our mobile phones? All signs seem to be pointing to ‘yes’ with major telecom operators, card issuers and handset manufacturers on board with the idea. Here are but a few of them. Isis, a mobile commerce joint venture between […]
