Over at CHYP Towers in New York, my colleague Simon Laker has created a new personal payment mechanism: his do-it-yourelf contactless credit card. Here is his unexpurgated report from the USA today.
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A big story to finish the week. You can now travel around London on the buses, tubes, trams and docklands light railway without having to queue for tickets or reload your Oyster. You can now use your contactless payment cards, stickers, wristbands and goodness knows what else instead.
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I was in a meeting earlier in the week where someone said that even with ApplePay, the US is far behind Japan in mobile payments, so I thought I’d do a quick update on Japan which, as for the US, we label a “special case” in our analysis of the market: we can learn from it, but it doesn’t tell us anything about how other markets might develop. As it happens, the Japanese market has just taken an odd turn.
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Even if Apple does put NFC in the iPhone 6, I do not see why they will use it to implement the existing industry model for contactless mobile payments.
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In the UK, contactless transactions are growing at around 20% per month, so clearly customers like it. But should some customers be allowed to turn it off if they don’t?
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There has been a lot of discussion about using Host Card Emulation (HCE) to support EMV payments over Near-Field Communication (NFC) interfaces. But HCE can be used to support EMV payments over, essentially, any interface. As part of Consult Hyperion’s prototyping programme, we developed a working (ie, using EMV data) proof-of-concept demonstrator (running on Android and iPhone) for paying with HCE over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and showed it at the UK Cards Association last week. The demonstrator is so cool it superconducts.
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Just because there isn’t any contactless crime does not mean that we should ignore the fears of consumers (or, for that matter, the police). Time for some mass market education on cuddle cards, as I now call them.
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Social media sentiment provides a useful perspective on the evolution of contactless payments in the UK.
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The US shouldn’t look at Japan as a model for mobile payments, and Europe shouldn’t look at the US.
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I’m a big believer in wearables (not watches). But then I have been for a while.
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