Industry Archived News
28/11/2007 - Barclaycard to launch public mobile payments trial
Barclaycard is to use the forthcoming pilot of the mobile Oyster transit scheme in London to launch a trial of mobile payments technology.
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23/11/2007 - RBS trials mobile debit payments technology
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is conducting trials of mobile contactless debit payments technology at its Edinburgh headquarters ahead of a public pilot next year.
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15/11/2007 - Halifax begins contactless card roll out
UK high street bank Halifax has begun issuing contactless debit cards featuring Visa payWave technology to around 25,000 customers in London.
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21/09/2007 - London's Evening Standard to launch pre-paid card
London newspaper The Evening Standard is launching a pre-paid contactless card that can be used to buy copies of the paper instead of cash, according to press reports.
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06/09/2007 - New APACS Advice for Retailers
APACS issues security advice for chip and PIN retailers
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15/06/2007 - Last barrier to cashless society in peril
Report from Daily Telegraph
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25/05/2007 - HSBC to pilot Visa Contactless Payment Cards
...ahead of the public launch later this year...
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09/05/2007 - Verified By Visa and 3-D SecureCode
Commidea fully compliant with both....
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04/05/2007 - Barclaycard and Oyster to roll out 'wave and pay' cards
Contactless Payments are on their way!
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13/03/2007 - Apacs says cashless society as likely as paperless office
Figures on the use of cash in the UK, released by the payments association Apacs to coincide with the launch of a new £20 note, show that Britons show no signs of abandoning cash any time soon. This is despite predictions from Visa of a cashless society by 2012.
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