DIGITAL PROOF: Australians can store their vaccine passports in either Apple Wallet or Google Pay Residents of Australia can now opt to store a digital vaccination certificate proving that they have been fully inoculated against Covid-19 in either Apple Wallet on an iOS device or in Google Pay on an Android device. Apple users in […]
By: Dan Balaban Visa reported this week that contactless payments continued to climb as a percentage of all face-to-face transactions with its brand, mainly at retail, and among the uses the network is continuing to push for contactless is to pay for transit fares. Related stories, automatically selected: Rome Transit Operator: Covid Accelerates Demand for
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DIGITAL HEALTH: Claimants make a health insurance claim by tapping their iPhone on an HICAPS terminal Australian consumers can now upload a digital private health insurance card to Apple Wallet and use their iPhone or Apple Watch to make an insurance claim by tapping a healthcare provider’s Health Insurance Claims and Payments Service (HICAPS) terminal.
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TAP AND RIDE: Public transport users in Sofia can now pay for their journey using their NFC mobile wallet Passengers on buses, trams and trolleybuses in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia can now pay their fares by simply tapping their physical contactless credit or debit card or a digital card uploaded to their NFC mobile
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SOFT POS: Taxi drivers download the Payneer app to convert their NFC Android device into a software POS Taxi drivers in Turkey can now accept contactless payments on their NFC Android smartphone without needing a separate point of sale (POS) terminal or any other additional hardware. Turkish taxi firm Taxi 7×24 is piloting a software
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CONNECTED: Wearers tap the NFC zipper pull with their phone to access care guides and other features Swedish sportswear brand Houdini has added an NFC-enabled zipper pull to its latest One Parka waterproof coat that lets consumers who purchase the garment connect with the brand and access use and care guides, support services and other
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PREPAID: Starbucks Rewards unspent stored value grew by almost US$200m in the year Q3 2020 to 2021 Starbucks customers have accumulated a total unspent balance of US$1.628bn on the company’s prepaid physical and digital reward and gift cards, the coffee giant’s 2021 Q3 earnings call has revealed. The company lists the total value its customers
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INTEROPERABLE: Public transport users in Strasbourg can now use Android NFC devices to pay and travel Owners of Android NFC smartphones can now purchase, store and validate digital tickets and monthly or annual passes for buses, trams and other public transportation services in the French city of Strasbourg on their mobile device. Transit operator Compagnie
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By: Dan Balaban Sampo Hietanen, founder and CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global, agrees with most other industry experts that public transit should form the “core” of the mobility services on offer in any MaaS app or platform. But he contends that it would be a mistake for the agency itself to control the platform. Related
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An Australian parliamentary committee has held a public hearing at which it heard evidence from representatives of leading Australian banks, payment services providers and other financial bodies on regulatory issues including whether companies such as Apple should be mandated to allow third-party payment apps access to a smartphone’s NFC chip. The issue was brought to
