MasterCard is collaborating with Commonwealth Bank of Australia MasterCard cardholders to securely load and store payment account credentials on select flagship NFC-enabled Samsung devices.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the first bank globally to collaborate with MasterCard and Samsung to offer this service to its customers, using Mobile MasterCard PayPass™ within its CommBank app on the embedded secure element of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Commonwealth Bank customers can now easily add contactless payment functionality to their Samsung Galaxy S4, allowing for contactless payments at the more than 1.6m MasterCard PayPass contactless merchant locations around the globe, including retailers, convenience stores, grocery stores, pharmacies and taxis.

MasterCard and Samsung, in partnership with financial institutions and mobile network operators worldwide, plan to complete similar service rollouts over the next year, including launches in Turkey, Russia and the Ukraine in the first quarter of 2014.

Access to the secure element allows Samsung and other OEMs, mobile network operators and financial institutions to partner with MasterCard to deliver next-generation payment solutions to consumers. This includes MasterCard contactless technology and MasterPass, MasterCard’s digital platform that enables partners to offer consumers enhanced payment and shopping experiences.

“With today’s news, we are ensuring that MasterCard cardholders can ‘light up’ Samsung devices for payments as they become available in the market,” said Mung Ki Woo, Group Executive, Mobile & Industry Alliances, MasterCard. “Our focus is on helping consumers shop and pay in a way that best fits their needs, across all of their devices.”

The Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 are two of the more than 140 devices, including 32 Samsung smartphones and tablets, certified as part of the MasterCard PayPass Ready program launched in May of 2012. Devices certified by MasterCard go through a rigorous testing process to ensure they are functionally reliable and interoperable.