My colleague Tuncay Şahin made an excellent job and processed the full contactless payment transaction data in Turkey between March and August 2016 and displayed on a video map.
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We are living in a digital world. From ovens to car keys, refrigerators to vending machines, each and every device is now running software. Every day we are getting more and more dependent on digital…
Contactless payments in Turkey is gaining ground, but it is still in early steps. As of December 2016, 25 % of the POS terminals have contactless reader and 30 % of the credit cards have contactless feature. Transaction volume though is still low and this is part of…
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Back in 2010, NFC was a huge thing within the payment professionals community. Every single bank, payment processor, carrier and fintech company (this term was not in the mainstream media back then)…
With the introduction of Apple Pay -and HCE before that, we started hearing about cloud payments. My initial reaction to cloud payment was “what kind of payment isn’t already in the cloud?”
In generic terms, cloud refers to data and applications that are not stored…
You’ve probably heard a lot on HCE — Host Card Emulation. Mobile industry had a great welcome on HCE, since contactless will become a software layer and get rid of hardware dependency. Actually every stakeholder in the NFC ecosystem except the SIM card vendors was thrilled.
It was back in 2007–2008, when everyone in the payments space was quite sure that NFC based mobile payments will be rocketing in the next couple of years. Countless graphics/info graphics showed us how the mobile payments would boom next year.
On 23–24th of January, NFC Symposium 2014 took place at Sheraton Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. I was one of the attendants, along with mostly Scandinavian colleagues.
The speakers have been selected from a wide variety of NFC ecosystem, ranging from vendors, to airlines…
NXP, being the co-founder of Near Field Communications Forum and one of the master minds of NFC and one of the largest suppliers of NFC tags, chips and controllers has started a portal on NFC. It is a good start for any developer or company interested in NFC and its ecosystem. Worth to add the RSS feed to keep in touch.
We are living in the ecosystem and API age. It would be almost impossible for Apple to have this success for its mobile devices if they didn’t provide the APIs to access the capabilities of their hardware components through their SDK. This API environment created the ecosystem…