MasterCard Fast Tracks Mobile Payment Acceptance in Europe Helping Europeans to Tap Everywhere by 2020

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MasterCard has announced that it is establishing contactless acceptance as standard by 2020 for merchants accepting MasterCard and Maestro in Europe, ensuring that, consumers will be able to pay with their contactless cards and NFC enabled devices at all point-of-sale terminals in Europe by 2020. “Europeans can already use contactless cards or NFC enabled mobile payments

Vivo Implements NFC Technology in Brazil with Gemalto Solution

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Vivo has selected Gemalto, a provider of digital security, to provide the TSM (Trusted Service Manager) platform. With the Gemalto platform, the operator can offer mobile payment products and services using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, which makes it possible to carry out financial transactions by simply tapping a mobile phone near a specific terminal.

Oberthur Technologies Ranked 1st in Contactless Smart Cards Market

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Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s largest providers of security and identification solutions and services based on smart card technologies, announced that it has been ranked number one in ABI Research’s competitive assessment of companies providing contactless solutions (NFC) to Mobile Network Operators, device manufacturers and service partners. ABI Research’s vendor matrix analysed competitors’ strengths

Visa payWave: Security for Contactless Payments

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Contactless payments technology continues to expand globally, and the number of NFC-enabled devices in use is expected to top 500 million next year according to ABI Research.  Visa expects NFC and other chip-based technologies will help drive future payment innovations. Visa payWave, the secure contactless payment technology, helps cardholders speed through checkout without having to

Gemalto Rolling out EMV and NFC Technology Around the World

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Gemalto, a leader in digital security, has announced several new projects in the last month which it will be undertaking. Gemalto Enables EMV Payment for Telefónica-MasterCard Joint Venture in Brazil Firstly they will be supplying prepaid EMV payment cards to Mobile Financial Services (MFS), the joint venture formed by Telefónica and MasterCard Worldwide. The launch

South Africa Selects Gemalto for its National Electronic Identity Card Program

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Gemalto will supply the Government Printing Works (GPW) of South Africa with Sealys eID cards for their national identity card program. GPW will harness Gemalto’s secure embedded software to protect the holder’s image and biometric data within the secure identity e-document, delivering outstanding levels of integrity and privacy. Moreover, GPW selected the high-end Sealys document