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By Mike Clark This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. • nfcworld.com • 18 June 2013, 15:47 • Last updated 18 June 2013, 15:47

SPEAKER: Smartrac's Mikko Nikkanen led a roster of expert presenters

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SPEAKER: Smartrac's Mikko Nikkanen led a roster of expert presenters

Polish e-commerce industry organisation e-Commerce Polska has joined Ecommerce Europe, the new European umbrella organisation for webshops.

As a member of Ecommerce Europe, e-Commerce Polska will provide Polish e-retailers with an active presence in Brussels.

ID Analytics, a US-based provider of consumer risk management, and IdentityMind, an on-demand platform tracking internet identities and providing anti-fraud services, have joined forces to offer an integrated solution aimed at reducing risk and providing fraud detection capabilities.

The newly introduced solution enables merchants, acquirers and payment service providers to leverage the power of ID Analytics’ e-commerce suite through IdentityMind’s Anti-Fraud and Merchant Account Risk Platform.

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Global sales of handsets featuring Near Field Communication (NFC) grew 300 percent in 2012 to reach 140 million units, a recent report has revealed.

According to a new research report issued by research firm Berg Insight, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48.2 percent, annual shipments are forecasted to reach 1 billion units by 2017. Wider adoption of NFC in mobile phones began in 2011 and accelerated in 2012 when the top-ten handset vendors released nearly 100 NFC-enabled models. NFC technology enables numerous applications such as information exchange, device pairing for establishing Bluetooth or WLAN connections, access control, electronic ticketing and secure contactless payments. However, it will take some time before the stakeholders agree on business models for payment networks and access to secure elements that store the sensitive user information in NFC-enabled handsets.

US-based mobile point of sale (POS) services provider PayAnywhere has launched a new version of its mobile point of sale (mPOS) app for iOS, along with a new and enhanced merchant portal dubbed PayAnywhere Inside.

The new version of the PayAnywhere app works with the PayAnywhere mobile credit card reader, which plugs into the audio jack of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device, enabling merchants of all sizes o accept credit and debit card payments directly from their phone or tablet.

BPC Banking Technologies, a provider of open system e-payment services for the global financial industry, Russian financial institution Alfa-Bank have launched a contactless payment service based on NFC technology for Beeline, a Russian telecom operator.

This new service, using MasterCard PayPass Mobile, enables customers to pay for purchases with their mobile phones.

Chinese bank card organisation China UnionPay (CUP) and mobile network operator China Mobile have made their NFC payments service available in more than fourteen Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

To use the service, China Mobile subscribers need to acquire an NFC SIM card, available at the carrier's stores and download the network's mobile wallet app, which is available for Android devices. After linking a bank account to the wallet, the customer can make mobile payments at participating merchants equipped with UnionPay QuickPass contactless POS terminals.