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 ...

NFC TAG: Lumiio provides a secure way to store and provide emergency contact and important data Five years after it first began partnering with police departments and charities across the UK to ...

The move marks the first time that Google Wallet and Google Pay have been available in Bangladesh. Apple Pay is not yet available in the country, which has a population of 175.6m. Customers can add ...

TAP TO TRANSFER: NFC P2P feature lets Samsung Galaxy users tap their phones to send money Samsung Galaxy owners in the US can now transfer funds directly to a contact’s bank account by just tapping ...

The NFC Forum has published a candidate specification for a new NFC Digital Product Passport (NDPP) standard that will enable NFC Forum tags already in use for other applications to also store ...

The move follows last year’s deal between Apple and the EU to open up access to the iPhone’s NFC functionality so that third-parties can offer iOS users a host card emulation-based alternative to ...

ANDY BURNHAM: Manchester’s mayor says his goal is a fully integrated public transport system The UK city of Manchester has completed the rollout of open loop contactless ticketing across its entire ...

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) ...

BIOMETRICS: Life Card is to start issuing payment cards with fingerprint verification Japanese credit card issuer Life Card is to begin issuing cards containing a built-in fingerprint verification ...

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 ...

Past news items on NFCW that mention Hybrid UWB Scheduling (HUS) ...