Samsung has inked partnerships with the top point-of-sale (POS) manufacturers, including Verifone, Ingenico, First Data Clover, PAX Technology, Equinox, ID TECH, MagTek, USA ePay and OTI Global. Samsung wants to accelerate mobile payment adoption by ensuring the best possible user experience at merchants’ POS systems during checkout. Samsung Pay is the only contactless payment solution…
The majority of respondents in a new mobile payments market study said they use mobile phones for payment transactions. About 31% of customers anticipate an increase of 5%-25% in payments through mobile phones over the next six months.
About 650% more retailers will support EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) by October 2015. A new survey suggests while EMV is getting lots of attention,it’s not the Holy Grail in the defense against credit card hackers.
Comprion test solutions for cell phones, extends its involvement in EMVCo activities. Testing for mobile payment is now required by the mobile operator association GSMA through their NFC Handset Test Book. Comprion joins EMVCo as a Technical Associate. The company offers its experience and expertise in detecting communication problems of the contactless interface used for mobile payment. Paying by cell phone is certainly a convenient way of purchasing everyday commodities; however, it is also a sensitive topic as the user’s private banking data are involved. A high degree of reliability of the deployed technology relying on comprehensive testing is the key success factor. Without testing, technology problems might lead to a lack of user acceptance. Therefore, the GSMA TS.27 NFC Handset Test Book demands that handsets to be used for mobile payment have to run through the EMVCo test plan.
More than four out of ten U.S. and U.K. consumers believe using a third party payer such as PayPal or Google Wallet is the safest way to pay for goods online. However, third party payment providers can and will be targeted just the same as the retailers themselves.
The number of global mobile payment users is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.4% through 2017, according to CardData. About 31% of consumers who have a device with Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, used it for mPayments in the last month.
The third annual Mobile Payments & Fraud Survey is now open for input from all members of the payments ecosystem. Last year, nearly 2,000 participants made the survey the largest of its kind in the world with responses from merchants, service providers, payment processors, acquirers, card associations and issuers.
Gemalto introduces its Allynis Trusted Services Hub turnkey business service that enables financial institutions, enterprises, transport operators and more generally all digital service providers to benefit from a single connection in order to securely deploy their value-added and mobile payment services across a comprehensive portfolio of smartphones and mobile networks around the world. Through Gemalto’s Allynis Trusted Services Hub customers get a one-stop and immediate access to the largest user base using NFC smartphones already equipped with Secure Elements. Over 1.5 billion mobile users worldwide are covered by Gemalto-contracted Trusted Services Management (TSM) platforms, with over a hundred million high-end “multi-tenant” SIM cards already in place to protect and manage sensitive application credentials.
Aconite EMV transaction processing has interfaced its Smart EMV Manager technolog to the Visa Mobile Gateway to enable remote management of the EMV application at the heart of the Tap n Pay service – the first mobile phone application for contactless payments. Introduced in partnership with Visa Europe and First Data, First Data Hellas selected Aconite’s Smart EMV Manager, which includes an EMV Scripting engine, to enable remote over-the-air management of the settings within the Visa mobile payWave EMV application installed in a custom SIM. The Aconite solution has been deployed alongside the First Data host system and linked into the Visa Mobile Gateway in order to provide this remote management capability.Aconite’s flexible and configurable scripting capability makes it an obvious choice for issuers and processors who need to ensure that their systems are capable of quickly changing to meet new and future scripting requirements.
Zapp mobile payment announced it’s next round of network payment partners that are committing to support Zapp’s rollout into the market. Secure Trading, TrustPay Global and Checkout.com – some of the most innovative payment service providers – will all work to support Zapp and it’s innovative, low friction, secure and mobile enabled checkout.Getting more customers through the checkout process securely is crucial to retail success. Research has shown that there are billions of abandoned check outs in the UK and the payment landscape is becoming increasingly confusing. Zapp will allow people to make real-time payments from their mobile, unlocking the money in their current account in a much simpler and more secure way.
Samsung Electronics Australia and Community Telco Australia, the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank telecommunication subsidiary, just launched their own retail POS mobile payment solution called ‘redy’. Customers can make payments using their mobile device by simply scanning a QR code in the ‘redy’ application. The app is available in Australia to anyone who uses a compatible smartphone. It can be linked to a Bendigo Bank savings account, or to any Visa or Mastercard account. No customer information or shopping data is passed onto the merchant for security purposes.
PayByPhone has been selected by Florida International University (FIU) to provide a cashless parking service at FIU’s campus parking lots. The same convenient mobile payment option that has been available on the streets of Miami and has proven to be a success for the users will be rolled out to FIU’s 4,500 parking spaces in the coming weeks. The PayByPhone smartphone app and dial-in service offer drivers a convenient alternative to paying with cash at a parking meter and includes the option to receive a text message reminder before their parking expires, enabling them to extend their parking time from wherever they are.