ContactlessNews | London carolers receive conactless donations

Friday, December 9, 2011

Barclays and Barclaycard have teamed up with the London Community Gospel Choir to put a new spin on charitable donations this holiday season, reports Shiny Shiny.

At a performance in December at Covent Garden, the choir carried a specially designed collections bucket that could accept donations from contactless cards. Barclaycard was on hand to distribute contactless cards to listeners, who could then tap them against the bucket to make a donation.

The event raised money for the Help a Capital Child charity, and provided Barclaycard with a way of demonstrating the ease of contactless payments, according to Shiny Shiny.

Barclaycard launched a new stick-on credit card application that will enable millions of its Visa cardholders to make wave-and-pay purchases using their mobile phone.

A third of the size of a normal card, Barclaycard PayTag can be stuck to the back of any mobile phone. Once attached, it can be used to make payments of £15 and under, rising to £20 in June, by simply being held over a contactless payment terminal.

FNB launches GPS-based mobile payments

South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB) has added a new feature to its mobile app that enables users to make peer-to-peer payments via GPS technology.

OTI to deliver 30,000 NFC readers in the U.S.

On Track Innovations (OTI) has received an order for 30,000 of its NFC and contactless payment readers for deployment in the U.S.

OTI did not reveal who will receive the readers, but assured that the devices would be used to support the migration towards contactless payments and NFC in the U.S.

Samsung, Visa to showcase NFC payments with London 2012 athletes

Samsung and Visa are providing their sponsored athletes and trialists at the London 2012 Olympic Games with special edition Samsung Galaxy S III handsets equipped with Visa’s payWave NFC payments application.

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