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Texas Instruments Announces First Combo Wireless Chips Supporting NFC
By: Dan Balaban U.S.-based chip giant Texas Instruments today announced the industry’s first combo wireless chips incorporating NFC, with its WiLink 8.0 series, which are expected to be incorporated...
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NFC Marks Multiply as Doubts Persist over NFC Forum Touchpoint Icon
By: Dan Balaban Even as the NFC Forum attempts to broaden the reach of its NFC touchpoint symbol, known as the N-Mark, rival marks are surfacing, threatening to present consumers with a fragmented...
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Major Payments Networks Prepare to Introduce Specifications for HCE
By: Dan Balaban The major payments schemes have kept a low profile in their work on host-card emulation, and they have been quietly drafting specifications to standardize the technology for use with...
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Visa and MasterCard: HCE Can Be as Secure as Secure Elements
By: Dan Balaban While continuing to support their applications on secure elements in NFC phones, Visa and MasterCard Worldwide confirmed their firm support for host-card emulation in the past week,...
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Tokenization Standard: How it Works; Implications for Host-Card Emulation
By: Dan Balaban The move to standardize tokens by the major payment networks has broad implications for how mobile commerce, including NFC payments, will be rolled out. Related Content: Tokenization...
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Major Payments Networks Prepare to Introduce Specifications for HCE
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: The major payments schemes have kept a low public profile in their work on host-card emulation, but they have been quietly fast-tracking the drafting of...
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Visa and MasterCard: HCE Can be as Secure as Secure Elements
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: While continuing to support their applications on secure elements in NFC phones, Visa and MasterCard Worldwide confirmed their firm support for host-card...
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Tokenization Standard: How it Works; Implications for Host-Card Emulation
By: Dan Balaban The move to standardize tokens by the major payment networks has broad implications for how mobile commerce, including NFC payments, will be rolled out.Related Content: Tokenization...
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EMV Card and Terminal Rollouts Up Globally, Slowly Increasing in U.S.
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland EMV bank card shipments, including dual-interface cards that support contactless payments, are increasing globally, but the future of the contactless infrastructure in the...
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NFC Booster Chip in New iPhones One Key to Apple Pay Performance, Though Not...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: In what is believed to be one of the first uses for NFC booster technology in NFC phones, the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus feature an amplifier chip enabling a...
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MasterCard, EMVCo Working on ‘Payment Identifier’ to Help Merchants Track...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – MasterCard Worldwide and EMVCo are working on a “payment identifier” that could cover all tokens for a particular card account issued to consumers, according to...
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Visa and MasterCard Change Strategy on Tokenization Fees; Observers See...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Visa maintains that its offer to waive tokenization fees for the long term is designed to simplify the connections between thousands of card issuers and...
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Tokenization from Visa and MasterCard Will be Tough Sell in Such Markets as...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Turkish banking group BKM and at least some Turkish banks are among those planning to support their own form of tokenization–alternate PANs–for early and perhaps...
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EMVCo to Release Overdue Tokenization Updates This Year; But Unclear if Major...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Commercial standards organization EMVCo says it will publish what are considered overdue updates to its tokenization specification before the end of the year,...
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EMVCo Delays Release of Second Version of Tokenization Specification
Oct 7 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – EMVCo has confirmed it will not release the next version of its tokenization specification until at least the second quarter of next year,...
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While Competition Heats Up Among HCE Vendors, Published Certification Lists...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – MasterCard has released its first list of certified vendors for host card emulation products supporting its cloud-based payments specifications, though the list...
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EMVCo Promises Token Service Provider Registry This Year; Without it, Third...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – EMVCo, the commercial standards organization owned by the world’s largest payment networks, has promised to have its registration process for token...
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Networks Continue to Dominate Tokenization as Vendors Wait for Token Service...
May 10 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – More than two years after EMVCo released its tokenization guidelines, there are still few token service providers operating besides those of the major...
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Officials Seek to Welcome Apple Pay and Other ‘Pays’ to Taiwan; but Call on...
May 6 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – The issue over availability of tokenization services and whether the major global networks, such as Visa, are allowing for a level playing...
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Visa Policy on Alternate PANs Leaves Cardholders Out in the Cold in Taiwan
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Fourteen banks in Taiwan launched mobile payments using host card emulation late last week or plan to do so in coming weeks, but none of the cards that the...
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