BlackBerry Bold 9900 NFC Mobile MasterCard Approved

Around the world, MasterCard products and services are recognized by our 1 billion cardholders and our 28 million merchants as delivering the highest levels of security, reliability and performance for mission-critical payment services. As MasterCard launches mobile payment services, it is the expectation of our issuers and cardholders that the same level of assurance is carried into this new domain.

In order to ensure that the MasterCard brand promise is realized in the mobile payments domain, MasterCard has developed approvals processes to ensure:

  • Functional reliability
  • Interoperability
  • Security

This basic principle is applied to all payment solutions that carry the MasterCard brand mark including mobile implementations of PayPass.

 

Mobile MasterCard PayPass Testing and Approvals Process:

A thorough test and approval process has been developed for all aspects of any Mobile MasterCard PayPassimplementation in order to promote worldwide interoperability at an acceptable time and cost to all parties. The aim of the testing process is to increase confidence in the smooth implementation of Mobile MasterCard PayPass – everywhere it is accepted and every time it is used.

For further details on the process or to obtain the process guide document, please go to the Documentation page and select the relevant documents.

Please refer to the list below for Mobile MasterCard PayPass approvals that have been granted for

Approved NFC Handsets with Mobile MasterCard PayPass Embedded Secure Element
Approved Mobile MasterCard PayPass compatible SWP Handsets
Approved Mobile MasterCard PayPass Tag products
Approved Mobile MasterCard PayPass Trusted Service Managers
Approved Mobile MasterCard PayPass User Interfaces

Read more about the approval process here.