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Passengers with an Android NFC phone can now make tap-and-go fare payments on public transportation services in the Washington DC area in the US by adding a SmarTrip transit card to Google Pay. Once they have added a new or existing SmarTrip card to Google Pay, users can pay their fares on rail and bus

Apple iPhone users will soon be able to store digital versions of their identity documents and a wider range of digital keys in their Wallet app, enabling them to prove their identity and tap to unlock their home, garage, workplace or hotel room with their smartphone. Apple is adding support for digital IDs and additional

EMVCo has issued a new specification bulletin that makes it mandatory for contactless payment terminal suppliers to make use of IQ demodulation techniques in order to receive EMVCo certification. The IQ modulation update has been published in Specification Bulletin 245 and incorporated into the EMV Level 1 Specifications for Payment Systems, EMV Contactless Interface Specification

The European Union has confirmed that it plans to introduce an EU-wide digital wallet that will enable all EU citizens to link their national digital identity with other personal attributes including their driving licence, diplomas and bank account details and store them on their mobile phone. The new European Digital Identity Wallet will be recognised

Passengers travelling on three inter-regional bus routes in South Korea’s Gyeonggi-do province can now test a ‘tagless’ fare payment system that enables them to pay for their tickets without needing to tap an onboard contactless reader with their transit card or smartphone. The system uses Bluetooth technology to enable onboard fare readers located close to

Passengers travelling on Brescia Mobilità buses in the northern Italian city and 14 surrounding municipalities can now make contactless fare payments with their credit or debit card or from a digital wallet on their NFC phone or smart watch. Brescia Mobilità launched the account-based contactless ticketing system on its light metro transit network in December

Contactless payments technology is causing “a sizable increase in the use of debit cards for small-value payments”, but is having an “economically small and statistically insignificant” impact on the use of cash and cash demand, according to a study conducted by the World Bank. “In almost all developed economies contactless payments have increased rapidly (already

Seven European countries — Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece and Poland — have begun issuing the European Union’s Digital Covid Certificate one month ahead of the full 1 July rollout announced last week. The EU Gateway system that enables the EU-wide authentication of the Digital Covid Certificate using electronic signature keys has also

Sweden’s central bank The Riksbank is to begin testing its e-krona central bank digital currency (CBDC) with external partners to assess how a digital krona would operate within a real world banking and payments infrastructure. The Riksbank has already begun trialling a blockchain-based technical CBDC solution in an isolated test environment and is now working