Rhys Blakely (Times online) explains that the Transport for London (TfL) have ambitious plans to extend the use of their Oyster card to other types of purchases (small items such as newspapers).
However, they “admitted that technical and financial partners had not yet provided an acceptable blueprint that would make the system acceptable to retailers without [...]

Some 20 million Japanese now have newer cell phones with embedded circuitry that can function as rechargeable debit cards, credit cards or commuter passes. Electronic readers in vending machines, turnstiles and store registers beam waves that read the circuits and deduct what’s due.
Already, 30, 000 vending machines, taxis and convenience stores have readers for the [...]

Yukako Ono writes for Japan’s Asahi.com about NTT DoCoMo’s new DCMX contactless mobile payment service phones containing Sony Corp.’s Felica contactless IC chip.
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Original source: asahi.com

South Korea’s major mobile telcos plan to roll out contactless payment to their subscribers and intend to later put the payment application on SIM card.
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Visa in collaboration of a bank (Maybank), a telco (Maxis) and a technology provider (Nokia) started a NFC trial in Malaysia.
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- Payments News
- Visa Asia