Early HCE Backer Capital One First Major U.S. Bank to Launch Technology with...
Oct 15 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Capital One has become the first U.S. issuer to introduce NFC mobile payments using host card emulation with its own app and is one of the...
View ArticleRBC Drops All Support for NFC SIMs in Favor of HCE; SIMs Created Too Much...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – It looked like a promising compromise at the time, when Royal Bank of Canada launched RBC Secure Cloud in January of 2014–a hybrid approach to NFC...
View ArticleSingapore’s UOB First Bank to Use Visa Token Service for HCE App Outside of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Despite other large banks outside of the U.S. using their own tokenization for early commercial launches of mobile payments with host card emulation,...
View ArticleTaiwan’s E.Sun Bank to Launch Own HCE Service, Breaking Ranks with Banking Group
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – E.Sun Commercial Bank, a top five card issuer in Taiwan, plans to launch NFC payments from its own wallet app using host-card emulation, NFC Times has learned,...
View ArticleWhy National Australia Bank Chose Scheme-Based Tokenization over Alternate...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Three of the big four banks in Australia have now launched HCE mobile payments commercially, but only one of them, National Australia Bank, is using...
View ArticleVisa, Mastercard Set Deadlines for Ending Support for Alternate PANs
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Both Visa and Mastercard have set deadlines for ending support for alternate PANs that a number of banks are issuing for their mobile payments apps, as the...
View ArticleSamsung Discloses Plans for Samsung Pay Launch in Taiwan; Apple Pay Launch...
Nov 9 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Samsung today disclosed plans in a local forum to launch Samsung Pay in Taiwan next year with several banks and a closed-loop payments service,...
View ArticleMajor French Banks Roll Out HCE as They Warily Await Expansion of ‘Pays’ in...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – There are markets where the major banks welcome Apple Pay and other “Pays” wallets, such as Taiwan, the most recent country to launch Apple Pay. And then...
View ArticleMore German Banks to Commercially Launch HCE-Enabled Payments
By: Istvan Fekete NFC TIMES Exclusive – At least two German banks plan to follow the country's largest bank by assets, Deutsche Bank, in offering host card emulation-based mobile payments to their...
View ArticleBelgium’s Belfius Bank Fully Launches HCE Mobile Payments Service
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Belgium’s Belfius Bank said it signed up 25,000 users within a three-week period recently for its HCE-enabled mobile payments service that it has...
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