The Smart Card Alliance has launched a new white paper: “The Mobile Payments and NFC Landscape: A U.S. Perspective.” The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit industry association working to stimulate the understanding, use and widespread of smart card technology. The report provides a good overview of the mobile payments and NFC landscape in the U.S. and discusses advantages and disadvantages of different mobile payment approaches. It also summarizes the requirements of the merchant, consumer, issuer, and mobile operator for NFC mobile payments and evaluates how different mobile payment approaches fulfill overall market requirements.

The paper is available on the Smart Card Alliance Homepage.