Security and quality for contactless payment function
The NFC-Sticker by Schreiner ProSecure for contactless payment of small amounts of money has been certified by finance services provider MasterCard®. This makes the specialty label with integrated Near Field Communication (NFC) technology a contactless credit card. The NFC-Sticker provides access to all worldwide MasterCard® PayPass™ stations and can therefore be used with any mobile phone today, irrespective of advances made in the development of NFC-capable cell phones.
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is to manufacture and personalize the NFC-capable SIM cards for an innovative mobile payment system in Russia, in cooperation with Sitronics Smart Technologies (SST), the company's technology partner there. The first commercial NFC project in the Russian Federation was implemented by Lukoil, Russia's biggest oil company, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the country's leading mobile network operator and SST. The collaboration will give customers of MTS the convenience of paying their bills at Lukoil filling stations by cell phone. A wide range of commercially available mobile devices can be used for these contactless payment transactions. G&D's commercially available NFC-capable SIM cards are being deployed in the project.
SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. , yesterday announced the launch of a new near field communication (NFC) Solutions Development Kit (SDK) that enables application developers and system integrators to accelerate time to market of NFC technology-based readers and terminals that support Device-to-Tag and Peer-To-Peer applications such as event ticketing, retail loyalty, physical and logical access as well as vending, public transport and mobile payment.
UPM RFID has entered cooperation with RFID Systems in an agreement to supply NFC tags exclusively from UPM RFID. The tags are available through RFID Systems’ online NFC Store launched on 22 August 2011.
Jiepang, China's fastest-growing location-based service (LBS) provider, is testing NFC technology to help fuel the growth of its ambitious SoLoMo (social-local-mobile) business strategy, which seeks to move beyond social networking and mobile marketing promotions to provide contactless payments and other offerings. The company's applications, which have gained a million users in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in just 13 months, are using UPM BullsEye and UPM MiniBlock NFC tags to conduct marketing and payment trials, gaining insights into user behavior that can be used to structure new services and increase customer loyalty.
