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Google Pay to let users in India share their transaction data for personalised offers and rewards

Google Pay users in India will soon be able to choose whether they want to share their transaction history and other activity data with the company in order to receive more personalised offers and rewards. The latest upgrade to the Google Pay app in the country will include a ‘Personalisation within Google Pay’ feature that

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Axis Bank teams with Thales and Tappy to roll out contactless payments wearables

PARTNER NEWS: India’s Axis Bank has launched a range of wearable contactless payment devices using technology provided by Thales and Tappy Technologies. The bank’s Wear ‘n’ Pay range includes wristbands, keyrings and watch straps as well as devices that can be incorporated into existing accessories. They are available “at a fee point of Rs750 [US$10],

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MTA reports on Omny contactless fare payments adoption in New York

Passengers on New York subway and bus services have tapped their contactless bank card or mobile wallet to pay their fares using the Omny open loop fare payment system more than 50m times since the service launched in May 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced. “On an average weekday, the MTA receives 307,000

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Feig selects Cilab for EMVCo 3.1a compliance testing

PARTNER NEWS: Payment terminal supplier Feig Electronic has selected Cilab’s ci230 high-speed testing solution to help it meet the demands of the latest EMVCo 3.1a specification. Feig’s cVend payment terminals include a contactless interface and are deployed around the globe in numerous transit and vending applications. They are fully EMVCo certified, meet PCI PTS security

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Russian supermarkets let customers make contactless payments ‘with a glance’

Customers at more than 50 branches of Russian food retail group X5’s Perekrestok supermarkets can now pay for their purchases at self-checkout devices “with a glance” using a biometric payments solution that uses 3D face recognition technology. Pay with a Glance is being made available to Sberbank customers who can register for and link a

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Chinese banks issue digital yuan wallets to Shanghai customers

Some 8,500 consumers in the Chinese city of Shanghai have been given e-wallets containing digital yuan as part of the country’s ongoing pilot scheme for its central bank digital currency (CBDC). China’s Bank of Communications distributed wallets containing 100 digital yuan (US$15) to 6,500 of its customers, while China Construction Bank gave 2,000 customers 150

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Piraeus Bank adds NFC payments to its mobile banking app

PARTNER NEWS: Piraeus Bank has launched an NFC mobile payments service that uses Antelop Solutions’ digital card and tokenization platform to let customers digitize their Mastercard or Visa cards and make payments from directly within their mobile banking app. The bank’s new Winbank Pay service enables customers with an NFC-enabled Android device to upload their

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OTP Bank lets Romanian merchants turn their NFC phone into a contactless POS terminal

Merchants in Romania can now accept contactless payments on their Android NFC smartphone or tablet using a software point of sale (sPOS) solution launched by OTP Bank. The OTP POSibil app “allows on-the-spot payment acceptance operations, without the need for a classic POS terminal and without additional maintenance costs or consumables,” the bank says. “The

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Contactless Open-Loop Pilot in Spain First Project from Vendor Partnership

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Bilbobus, which operates bus service for the city of Bilbao, in northern Spain’s Basque region, says it launched its recent trial of con Related stories, automatically selected:  Software-as-Service Platforms for Transit Agencies Begin to Support Open-Loop Payments Uber Expands Mobile Ticketing to More U.S. Public Transit Agencies U.S.

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