Tag: MasterCard

Consumer attitudes to NFC

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.

Orange and Barclaycard bring contactless payments to the UK

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. […]

Moving NFC forward with MasterCard certification

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.