Nearly one in four transactions at Starbucks outlets in the US are now being made using the company’s mobile app, the coffee chain reports. The company’s 2020 fiscal results show that the percentage ...

WEARABLE: Centurion cardholders will be able to use a Prada bracelet to make contactless payments Image: Prada/Harper’s Bazaar Holders of an American Express Centurion card will soon be able to make ...

ENGAGEMENT: QR codes enable customers to access information about the perfumes and their authenticity French brand Bastille Parfums has added RFID tags and QR codes to bottles of its luxury perfumes ...

FORECAST: The number of contactless card purchases is set to grow by an average of 23% a year by 2026 The number of contactless card purchases made worldwide will increase by an average of 23% a year ...

DIGITAL LICENCE: To self-enrol, drivers need to download the GET Mobile app on their phone Drivers in the US state of Utah can now opt to create and store a digital version of their driving licence on ...

Two in three Europeans (66%) would use the European Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) that the European Union plans to start piloting in 2023, a survey has found. It also found that, when asked about the ...

PAY BY EYE: Users upload iris and face data to the biometric system and link them to their payment card Customers purchasing laptops, tablets, smartphones and accessories from a branch of Polish ...

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 ...

NFC DIGITAL KEY: Drivers will be able to use Apple CarKey to access BMW’s iX series electric cars Apple iPhone users who purchase a BMW iX electric car will be able to lock, unlock and start the ...

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 ...

Banks in India, Poland, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt are among those set to trial biometric payment cards that enable customers to authenticate contactless payments with their fingerprints. Bank ...

Merchants in the USA including fashion retailers Vince, Burton, G-Star and Scotch & Soda have begun enabling staff to accept in-store contactless payments on iPhones using Apple’s Tap to Pay software ...