MOBILE DEVICE ARCHITECTURE: Secure elements and native and custom apps are used to manage digital keys The Car Connectivity Consortium has announced the completion of an NFC-based digital key ...

The rollout means that Marylanders can now add their driver’s licence or ID card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet and then use it to prove their identity when travelling by air from either ...

OPEN LOOP: The KTEL bus group is rolling out contactless payments across 33 Greek cities and islands Passengers using bus services across 33 cities and islands in Greece will soon be able to make ...

MOBILE ID: Finnish travellers can use the DTC app to add a digital version of their passport to their phone Citizens of Finland travelling on Finnair flights to and from London, Manchester and ...

The countries which have announced increases to date are Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt ...

Google Wallet is to gain support for a wide variety of new types of contactless credentials, including health insurance cards and employee ID badges, and is also expanding its support for mobile ...

The performance requirements document is anticipated to be published for EMVCo Associate review and input by the end of Q2 2023, chair of the EMVCo CDCVM Task Force Jianhua Ni says. “A Technical ...

PREPAID: Starbucks Rewards unspent stored value grew by almost US$200m in the year Q3 2020 to 2021 Starbucks customers have accumulated a total unspent balance of US$1.628bn on the company’s prepaid ...

Customers at Whole Foods Market stores in the greater Denver area in the US state of Colorado can now gain access to the supermarket and make contactless payments for their purchases with their palm.

PRE-BOOKING: Drivers can now reserve parking spaces in advance via the MBUX infotainment centre Mercedes-Benz drivers in North America and 14 European countries can now find and pay for parking spaces ...

CASH DECLINE: The proportion of cash-based payments is now less than 5% in the 10 nations closest to becoming cashless Norway, Finland and New Zealand are the three countries closest to becoming ...

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 ...