RBS and NatWest Partner with Visa Europe to Roll Out TouchPay

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - APRIL 19: Protestors from the UK Tar Sands Network 'drink' from oil cans as they demonstrate against the RBS backing the controversial extraction of oil from tar sands in Canada, outside the Royal Bank of Scotland annual meeting on April 19, 2011 in Edinburgh. Protestors gathered outside the bank's headquarters Gogarburn to show disapproval to the long term pay rewards for the bank's CEO Stephen Hester, and other senior staff. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Visa lets iPhone-toting NatWest and RBS customers pay with NFC cases, join ... Engadget Two can play at the UK-banks-with-NFC-payments game. RBS (and by extension, NatWest) is partnering with Visa Europe to roll out TouchPay, a mobile payment system based around an iCarte case for the iPhone 4 and 4S -- sorry, early iPhone 5 owners. See all stories on this topic »

AT&T Debuts Exclusive Xperia TL, Sony's Best in Mobile Camera Technology ... Equities.com AT&T Debuts Exclusive Xperia TL, Sony's Best in Mobile Camera Technology, HD Viewing and NFC Connectivity. M2 Communications. ENP Newswire - 02 October 2012. Release date- 01102012 - Dallas, Texas -AT&T* today announced plans to offer ... See all stories on this topic »

Telefónica O2 begins mobile payments rollout in Germany with mPass ... NFC World Telefónica O2 Germany has begun the move to extend the mPass mcommerce and ecommerce payments service into the retail payments market. mPass uses SMS notifications to allow customers to make online purchases with their mobile phone, without ... See all stories on this topic » NFC World

PrivatBank picks Gemalto for NFC payments in the Ukraine NFC World The first commercial mobile payments deployment in the Ukraine will begin with contactless stickers and then be expanded to include NFC phones, says the country's largest commercial bank. PRIVATBANK: "This will help us to prepare the market for mobile ... See all stories on this topic » NFC World

Can't We All Just…. Get Along? [Opinion] iSource When I point out that all the NFC does is negotiate a Bluetooth session to do the actual file transfer, suddenly NFC seems a little less like a must-have feature. As for mobile payments, only 23 merchants currently accept Google Wallet NFC payments ... See all stories on this topic » iSource

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