CaixaBank, Gemalto, Telefónica and Visa Europe have partnered to deliver a new mobile payments app.

Made available to attendees at the Mobile World Congress from February 25 – 28 in Barcelona, the app will allow all 3,500 delegates to make mobile contactless payments with a pre-paid card, enabled to work with Visa’s contactless payment technology.

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Pre-loaded with €15, delegates will make payments via contactless payment terminals across the complex, and at any of 16,000 Visa contactless payment terminals in stores, as well as 700 taxis installed by CaixaBank in Barcelona.

Sandra Alzetta, Senior Vice President at Visa Europe, said contact transaction numbers had quadrupled across Europe in 2012 and will quadruple again this year.

She added: "In the UK there are now more than 2.5 million contactless transactions every month. There is a natural evolution from contactless cards to mobile devices and we’ve seen a fantastic response from the markets where this kind of service is commercially available."

The service will be available on an Xperia smartphone provided by Sony Mobile Communications, using wallet technology developed by Telefónica Digital.

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Jean-Claude Deturche, senior vice president of mobile financial services at Gemalto, said: "Bustling with activity and people jumping from meetings to demonstrations, MWC is the perfect environment for experiencing the speed and convenience of contactless services."

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