Apple Pay to Finally Support Octopus Card in Hong Kong, as Competition Grows in Market

By:

Dan Balaban

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple Pay will offer support for Hong Kong’s popular closed-loop contactless transit and retail payments card Octopus later this year, adding a much-needed service to an Apple Wallet that launched three years ago in Hong Kong for credit and debit payments at retail.

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