--- title: "Contactless Payments News Archives - Page 27 of 41 - Secure Technology Alliance" language: "en-US" canonical_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/contactless-payments-news/page/27/" source_url: "https://www.securetechalliance.org/category/contactless-payments-news/page/27/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [Home](https://www.securetechalliance.org/)Contactless Payments News # Category: Contactless Payments News ### ANDiS4EMV will support Visa payWave and MasterCard PayPass and assist contactless card issuers as they migrate from magnetic stripe based to chip-based contactless cards Rotterdam, October 23, 2007–Bell ID today announces further enhancements to ANDiS4EMV–launching a contactless solution, which offers current and aspiring contactless card issuers a simple and easy way to issue Visa payWave… ### Amsterdam, Taiwan, October 4, 2007–Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces a partnership with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecommunications Ltd. to start Asia’s first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC (Near Field Communications) trial. This trial, starting in November and rolled out in phases, is part of the GSM Association’s ‘Pay-Buy Mobile’ initiative… ### Key Chain-sized Payment Device Debuts at AT&T Park SAN FRANCISCO, September 26, 2007–Visa announced today the availability of the Visa Micro Tag, a new key fob payment device embedded with Visa payWave, Visa’s contactless technology feature. The Visa Micro Tag is designed to easily attach to a key ring, and allows cardholders to pay by… ### SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, 2007–Visa International, a global leader in electronic payments, announced continued progress in the adoption of innovative contactless-based payments around the world. Visa payWave, Visa’s name for its contactless technology feature, allows cardholders to wave their card in front of contactless payment terminals without the need to physically swipe or insert the… ### Harvard employees, students, faculty and alumni to use HUECU MasterCard® PayPass™ debit cards to Tap & Go™ when buying items throughout Harvard Square and around the world Purchase, NY, September 17, 2007–MasterCard Worldwide and Harvard University Employees Credit Union (HUECU) today announced that HUECU has begun issuing Debit MasterCard cards enabled with the MasterCard® PayPass™… ### Leading Pet Supply Retailer Joins Expanding List of Merchants Accepting Contactless Payment Technology to Offer Consumers Speed and Convenience Purchase, NY, September 13, 2007–MasterCard Worldwide and PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc., announced today that MasterCard® PayPass™, an innovative contactless payment option, will now be accepted at all of PETCO’s nearly 900 stores located in 49 states… ### Tap & Go™ Payment Technology Provides Customers Speed and Convenience Jefferson City, MO, September 10, 2007–Central Bancompany, a community bank holding company based in Jefferson City, Mo., today announced it is providing customers with MasterCard® PayPass™ contactless payment technology. It is the first community bank holding company to announce it is issuing PayPass cards, the… ### Tokyo, Japan, Sept 7, 2007–JCB Co., Ltd. (JCB), a major global payment brand and leading credit card issuer and acquirer in Japan, and JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), JCB’s international subsidiary, announced the launch of the Breeze Center JCB Card with the J/Speedy™ contactless payment program in alliance with Union Bank of Taiwan (Union Bank)…. ### ‘Coin Bridge’ Paves Way to a Cashless Future with MasterCard® PayPass™ London, UK, Tuesday 4 September 2007–In an unprecedented move to mark the national rollout of MasterCard® PayPass™ and Maestro® PayPass and celebrate the arrival of ‘Tap & Go™’ payments in the UK, MasterCard has transformed the Millennium Bridge by carpeting the London landmark with… ### Growing List of Retailers Now Accepting MasterCard “Tap & Go™” Contactless Payments Purchase, NY, August 28, 2007–MasterCard Worldwide announced today that Office Depot (NYSE: ODP), a leading global provider of office products and services, will accept MasterCard® PayPass™, an innovative contactless payment option, in its more than 1,000 retail store locations nationwide. With a strong… [ ** ](#)