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Moovit Moves Forward to Enable Ticketing and Payments in App with More Transit Agencies

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By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – Large trip-planning app provider Moovit has enabled customers of more than 50 mostly small transit agencies in the U.S. to buy mobile tickets it its app, with more agencies to come, the company confirmed to Mobility Payments. Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Transit Agency Sells Passes for Bikes and […]

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Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’

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By:  Dan Balaban There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation Systems, said it believes that going forward, public transit services need to form the backbone of MaaS platforms, along with enabling more

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China to launch digital yuan nationwide after 2022 Winter Olympics?

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BREAKOUT: Chinese media reports that the digital yuan is set for nationwide launch after the 2022 Olympics China could be ready to officially launch the digital yuan as a fully operational central bank digital currency (CBDC) after the Beijing Winter Olympics in early 2022, according to reports in the Chinese media. The reports come as

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Survey: Four in five consumers globally would use a biometric payment card

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POSTIVE ATTITUDE: The survey reveals that many consumers are ready to use biometrics for payments More than four fifths of consumers (81%) worldwide are ready to use a biometric payment card and authenticate payments with their fingerprint rather than a PIN code, according to a survey commissioned by a biometric technology provider. The survey —

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ST and Feig let manufacturers personalise whole pallets of NFC-enabled products in their packaging

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QUICK AND EASY: Whole pallets equipped with Type 5 NFC tags (example, inset) can be personalised without being opened to streamline the logistics process PARTNER NEWS: STMicroelectronics and Feig Electronic have introduced a new bulk personalisation system that makes it possible for manufacturers to quickly and easily personalise large volumes of products equipped with dynamic

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State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

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By:  Dan Balaban As the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, sees it, the state’s more than 300 local transit agencies offer a fragmented and inefficient mix of fare collection systems–a fact it says discourages many potential riders among the state’s nearly 40 million residents from taking public transit. Related stories, automatically selected:  Open-Loop Payments

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New Zealand to launch national open loop contactless fare payments in 2022

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ACCOUNT-BASED: Waka Kotahi is launching the national open loop fare payment system in Canterbury Public transport users in the New Zealand city of Canterbury will be the first to be able to make contactless fare payments with a new national public transport smartcard or their own credit or debit card using an account-based open loop

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Bahrain bank unveils kids’ NFC payments band that lets parents monitor transactions

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SUPERVISION: The NFC wristband lets kids make in-store payments and their parents monitor spending Customers of Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) can now open a prepaid card account that enables their children to make contactless in-store payments with an NFC-enabled wristband and allows parents to digitally issue allowances and monitor transactions. BisB’s Future Leaders service is

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Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App

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By:  Dan Balaban Google has finally enabled users to initiate purchases of public transit tickets from its Maps app, following delays. Meanwhile, rival trip-planning app providers Moovit and Transit have been quietly moving forward with signing up most of the same small U.S. transit agencies to sell tickets in their apps. Related stories, automatically selected: 

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