PrePay Solutions (PPS), a prepaid card program manager jointly owned by MasterCard and Edenred, has partnered with NFC specialist Proxama to provide its clients the ability to offer host card emulation-based NFC services to their customers.

DRIVER: Proxama CEO Neil Garner

“By combining our technologies and platforms, PPS and Proxama are delivering a genuine end-to-end service,” says Neil Garner, Proxama’s CEO. “This collaboration with PPS marks an important step forward for mobile engagement and will certainly help drive mobile contactless payments uptake.”

“Offering new ways to use our payment products is a real priority for us at PPS and, as such, adopting mobile as a vehicle is essential,” adds Ray Brash, chairman and CEO of PPS.

“Through this partnership, we have been able to take the best from our own portfolio and offer more value to our clients by taking our payment propositions to the mobile world with HCE through Proxama.”