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Spain’s CaixaBank, mobile operator Telefónica and Visa Europe, along with technology vendor Gemalto, plan to demonstrate NFC payment at next week’s big Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Large Spanish retail bank, La Caixa, plans to begin distributing 200,000 contactless stickers this month, deciding not to wait for NFC commercial launches to start its mobile-payment rollout.

BARCELONA – Spain’s three major operators, Telefónica, Vodafone Spain and Orange Spain, are finally ready to sign a memo of understanding to work together on a common platform for introduci

Large Spanish retail bank La Caixa will begin rolling out 1 million contactless cards along with more than 15,000 point-of-sale terminals and 500 contactless ATMs in Barcelona this month.

La Caixa, one of Spain’s largest banks, has an aggressive plan to roll out contactless cards and point-of-sale terminals nationwide this year and next, a bank spokeswoman told NFC Times.

Spain’s La Caixa bank has installed what it boasts are the world’s first contactless ATMs, which enable customers to tap cards or NFC phones to withdrawal money, after entering PIN codes.

Telefónica Spain has announced its large NFC trial at its Madrid headquarters, which it said would eventually put NFC phones into the hands of as many as 12,500 employees.

The ambitious project, led by telco Telefónica in Spain, involves three banks, enabling 1,000 Telefóni

BARCELONA – Samsung Electronics has introduced its new NFC phone for its first public trial, lending more than 400 units for a demonstration at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.