Cover: "From MagicBand to Ocean Medallion: Using interactive devices to unlock next-generation guest experiences"

From MagicBand to Ocean Medallion: Using interactive devices to unlock next-generation guest experiences

The world’s largest leisure travel company is introducing a new cruise experience that makes use of the Ocean Medallion, a small, in-house designed device that supports both NFC and Bluetooth Low Energy and acts as a guest’s key to a wide range of personalized, next generation services on board the company’s cruise ships.

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Covershot: What is Apple Pay and How Does it Work?

What is Apple Pay and how does it work?

This newly updated 12-page primer explains in clear and simple terms how Apple’s NFC-based mobile payment system works and makes an ideal fast introduction to Apple Pay for executives that are new to mobile payments.

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Vritti from Mahindra Comviva

May 2017 edition of Mahindra Comviva’s Vritti magazine

This latest issue of Mahindra Comviva’s quarterly magazine Vritti looks at the trends and technologies driving the next wave of mobile payments and digital commerce and includes articles about conversational commerce, the use of biometrics in payments and ways to address the gender gap in the uptake of mobile money.

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Rambus What is Android Pay

What is Android Pay & how does it work?

This seven-page guide from Rambus gives an overview of what banks and service providers need to know about Google’s Android Pay platform and its use of NFC, host card emulation (HCE) and tokenization.

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Famoco Emerging Markets white paper

Emerging markets: How contactless transactions are making a difference

This 19-page white paper from Famoco examines the role of secure, affordable and dedicated mobile Android devices in the development of emerging economies. It covers the participation of low-income people in the financial system, how to counter the informal economy and improve the distribution of humanitarian aid.

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Rambus How Will We Pay in 2020 ebook

How will we pay in 2020?

This eight-page guide from Rambus examines the changes taking place in the mobile payments industry and the key developments that will take place over the next three years.

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