STABLECOIN PILOT: UAE taxi passengers can now pay their fares via AE Coin on their mobile phones Passengers using taxi services provided by Abu Dhabi-based Tawasul Transport can now take part in a ...

“Despite significant investment, biometric payment cards continue to struggle with mainstream adoption,” ABI Research concludes in a new market forecast that predicts there could be as few as just ...

Adoption of Visa’s Tap to Phone softPOS solution has increased 200% year-on-year globally and by 234% in the ‘highest’ countries — the US, the UK and Brazil — Visa reports. There are now “millions of ...

DIGITAL PASSPORT: Customers can access sustainability details via the QR code on the garment label Dutch jeans brand Garcia is to equip every garment in its range with a digital product passport (DPP) ...

Zebra Technologies has unveiled an enterprise Android smartphone that comes with built-in support for both ultra high frequency RFID and NFC tag reading — and the ability to also function as a ...

The NFC Forum is to support the EU's introduction of digital product passports by defining additional standards that will make it possible for NFC tags to be used to process on-product DPPs, enable ...

The move follows the EU’s earlier mandate that all member states need to introduce a standardised European digital identity wallet (EUDI) enabling EU nationals to verify their identity across the EU27 ...

SIMPLER PAYMENTS: Alipay’s tap-and-pay service turns a smartphone into an NFC tag reader Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments provider and the pioneer of QR mobile payments, has launched a new ...

More than 80% of the respondents to a survey conducted by ABI Research on behalf of the NFC Forum said they have used a smartphone or smartwatch to make a contactless payment. Of those that have made ...

The NFC Forum has produced a 22-page ebook on the role NFC can play in digital product passports (DPPs). The digital product passport initiative is “expected to be the future information system of the ...

SHOP&GO: Entering the Aldi’s concept store has been streamlined with the addition of contactless card entry Discount supermarket chain Aldi has introduced contactless payment at its checkout-free ...

CERTIFICATION: A logo will show consumers that a product conforms to the CCC’s digital key standards The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) has launched a CCC Digital Key Certification program designed ...