Contactless payments

On-card biometrics is the final piece of the puzzle to bring trust and security to contactless payments without compromising convenience, writes Lina Andolf-Orup, global product marketing manager at Fingerprints.

Mastercard knows the more time consumers spend on their mobile devices—often deliberately blocking ads—the less likely they are to see its iconic “Priceless” ads, even if those ads support a charitable cause.

The U.S. may be undergoing a sea change in attitudes to contactless cards.

Mastercard is teaming with SIX Payment Services to enable cashless payments at the Hahnenkamm, a top European ski race in Kitzbühel, Austria, to speed up service and eliminate lines.

Visa is digging deep into the question of whether transit fare payments can influence habits in other settings.

With a solution that addresses the unique security, transaction speed and integration requirements of the transit environment, EMV contactless open payments for transit can become a reality and change our public transportation experiences for the better, writes Randy Vanderhoof, director of the U.S. Payments Forum.

Transit transactions will increase card use and loyalty, and will generate the same sort of reputational boost London enjoys with Oyster, writes Andrey Tikhonov, director of payment technology for Infinite Peripherals.

New York plans to dramatically digitize its subway system, phasing out its iconic MetroCard to install contactless tap-and-go technology, bringing a dose of the 21^st century to a system that dates to 1904 but often feels even older than that.

KRACK, combined with other attacks, allows for the reading of pain text username, passwords, credit card numbers as well as the injection of code including ransomware, writes Timothy Crosby, senior security consultant for Spohn.

The slow and difficult EMV migration has slowed major adoption of contactless cards, but there are signs that momentum may be turning around.