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SHARED PLATFORM: The MobilePay, Pivo and Vipps merger will see the creation of a single digital wallet Bank-owned Nordic mobile payment providers Vipps in Norway, MobilePay in Denmark and Pivo in Finland are to merge and will create a single digital wallet that consumers can use in all three countries, as well as for cross-border […]

NFC ENERGY: The transient pacemaker provides temporary cardiac support before gradually dissolving Scientists at Northwestern and George Washington universities in the US have developed a wireless, battery-free implantable pacemaker that uses NFC to harvest energy from an external antenna and dissolves after it is no longer needed to control a patient’s heartbeat. The device —

CASHLESS: Digital purchases at vending machines using Canteloupe’s payment platform now outstrip cash The average number of digital payments made for purchases from vending machines in the US grew steadily during 2019, finally exceeded those made with cash in April 2020 and continued to increase over the course of 2020, a new study shows. By

TRUSTED: ConnectID allows users to athenticate their ID with organisations by linking to a verified digital ID Australia’s Eftpos national debit card system has launched a digital identity exchange solution that enables consumers to share personal information held by trusted digital ID providers in a wide range of use cases, from opening an online account

DIGITAL PROOF: Drivers with an mDL will be able to use it as legal ID for all UCCU banking transactions Utah Community Credit Union (UCCU) is to become the first financial institution in the US state to let its customers use Utah’s mobile driving licence (mDL) as a legal form of identification for all banking

SPLIT PAY: Canadian consumers will be able to pay for credit card purchases in smaller chunks over time Visa is to launch its Visa Installments payments service in Canada, enabling consumers to choose to pay for purchases made using their credit card in smaller instalments over a specified period of time. “Visa Installments aims to

Customers at Kio Kukhnya fast food outlets in the Russian city of St Petersburg can now pay for their food and beverages at payment terminals equipped with biometric pay-with-a-glance technology. Once they have registered for the service via an app, users save their facial biometrics to the system and link their account to their payment

IRIS RECOGNITION: Customers register with the PayEye app on their phone to enable payment by eye Moviegoers at the Nowe Horyzonty Cinema in the Polish city of Wroclaw can now pay for their tickets with their eyes via a biometric payments system that makes use of iris recognition technology. “The whole system is very simple.