Near-Field Communication (NFC)

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Mobile payments continue to garner merchant interest as more retailers are accepting mobile wallets, research shows. Meanwhile, drug-store chain Walgreens is making its loyalty program available to users of Android Pay. Thirty-four percent of small businesses accept mobile payments like Apple Pay and Android Pay, finds the …

• Fast-food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A Inc. says it will begin accepting Apple Pay and Android Pay Friday at the point of sale inside its stores and in drive-through lanes. Chick-fil-A announced in February it would accept Apple Pay along with its own Quick Response bar code-based mobile-payment service. • Wal-Mart …

A streamlined approval for contactless mobile-payment devices announced Wednesday by chip card standards body EMVCo could help mobile-payments boosters realize their elusive dream that the coming of chip cards to the U.S. also will lift smart-phone-based payments. The new approval process is meant to confirm that mobile devices enabled for …

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews UnionPay International’s QuickPass mobile-payments service made its North American debut with acceptance initiated in Canada, the company, a unit of China UnionPay, announced Tuesday. Consumers can use their UnionPay QuickPass cards, equipped with a contactless chip, or a card loaded into a mobile wallet, at contactless payment …

Slowly but surely, the big merchants that make up the stalled Merchant Customer Exchange LLC retailer consortium are finding their own way in mobile payments. The latest example is MCX stalwart CVS Health Corp., which on Thursday announced the launch of its CVS Pay mobile wallet. The Woonsocket, R.I.-based chain …

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Mobile-wallet adoption might get a boost through the rest of 2016 as 29% of consumers expect to use a mobile wallet like Apple Pay, Android Pay, or Samsung Pay before the end of the year, finds a survey from Computer Services Inc., a financial-technology company. Most—71%—had no …

By John Stewart @DTPaymentNews When Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. demonstrated their merchant frustration with lengthy certification logjams. The Quick Chip and M/Chip Fast code is available at no cost, and American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services are also offering variants of it. How many merchants will adopt the …

By Kevin Woodward@DTPaymentNews Consumers using near-field communication (NFC)-enabled payment cards and smart phones enabled with mobile wallets soon will be able to use them to pay for transit rides operated by the Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works, Cubic Corp. recently announced. The contract is valued at $33 …

Apple Inc. is notoriously tightlipped about how its Apple Pay mobile-payments service is doing, and the occasion of the computing giant’s quarterly earnings call late Tuesday was no exception. Still, while Apple chief executive Tim Cook said little to satisfy widespread curiosity about the wallet’s adoption and usage among consumers, …

A little bit of London may find its way into the hands of U.S. transit riders. Cubic Transportation Systems, a unit of Cubic Corp., will license contactless ticketing technology developed by Transport for London, the U.K. capital’s transit agency, for use with similar agencies around the world. TfL’s technology enables transit …