This week Visa and MasterCard announced new specifications for NFC mobile payments using host card emulation (HCE) . Until now mobile payment systems needed a special piece of hardware, normally in ...

Host-card emulation is an opportunity to drive growth for the whole near field communications market, the SIMalliance reports. The industry association – whose members represent 86% of the SIM card ...

Android’s forthcoming KitKat update could be used as more than just a means to skirt Isis and wrestle control of mobile wallets from the telcos. It could in fact be used in any NFC service. By ...

Coexistence: Host Card Emulation supports the coexistence between the Secure Element issuance model and the HCE CloudSE and in-software approaches. This leaves an open-door to a shift in approaches or ...

Ever since Google announced support for Host Card Emulation (HCE) earlier this year on the Android OS, banks, merchants and other mobile payment aficionados have been all over it, trying to grasp its ...

As banks continue to study the use of host card emulation (HCE) for Near Field Communication-based mobile payments, Ukraine's PrivatBank says it is one of the first to publicly launch an HCE service.

Developers and programmers that need to carry out NFC security analysis may be interested in a new versatile NFC card emulator that has been created called the ChameleonMini. The ChameleonMini NFC ...

With or without host card emulation, “if you did a side-by-side comparison of NFC and BLE, BLE would whip its butt every time,” cracks a restaurant-company executive who asked not to be named. In its ...

In another indication of the rebound of near-field communication for payments, some 148 million consumers globally will use the contactless technology in a mobile or wearable device to buy something ...

Bokis, a consortium of 62 small- to midsize banks in Denmark, will launch an NFC-based digital wallet this fall powered by host card emulation (HCE) that will be available to all its members, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link KEY POINTS INTRODUCTION Host card emulation (HCE) is the latest technology driving a new wave of excitement in the mobile payments industry. The ...