The Japanese card network JCB Co. Ltd. is using a service from the Singapore security vendor Cassis International Pte Ltd. to develop a way to program payment card information into mobile phones remotely.
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The Cassis service allows the information to be transmitted to mobile devices. The devices, which need to be equipped with near-field communication chips, could then be used for contactless payments.
"Secure over-the-air service is a key factor in mobile payment," Tom Okabe, JCB's senior vice president of global infrastructure technologies, said in a press release Thursday. Contactless payment adoption is "going to happen in many markets soon, and we need to be ready for commercial deployment when it does."
