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Porsche lets owners in Australia find, access and pay for parking from their vehicle

Porsche owners in Australia can now be guided to, gain entry to and make contactless payment for off-street parking in the city of Melbourne directly from their in-vehicle touchscreen using the luxury vehicle manufacturer’s smart parking app. To use the service, owners first register for and download the Porsche Park app, adding their preferred payment […]

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Chinese banks unveil CBDC hardware prototypes for multiple use cases

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have unveiled prototype hardware devices that support the use of the digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) across a range of different use cases. The banks demonstrated the devices at the fourth Digital China Construction Summit in the city

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Transport for Ireland adds NFC transit card top-ups for iPhone users

Passengers on public transportation services in Ireland can now use an NFC-enabled iPhone to top up their Leap transit card using Transport for Ireland’s (TfI) Leap Card top-up app. The app also enables users to check their card balance and to load pre-purchased tickets simply by tapping their physical Leap Card with their iPhone 7

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Retail CBDC projects ‘particularly strong’ in emerging economies, PwC index shows

Projects to develop a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) for use by consumers and businesses are “more advanced” and “particularly strong” in emerging economies, according to analysis by global consultancy firm PwC. The firm’s Global CBDC global index 2021 “is designed to measure a central bank’s level of maturity in deploying their own digital

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Russian retail giant adds biometric payments to let customers ‘pay with a glance’

Customers at superstores, supermarkets and convenience and cosmetics stores owned by Russian retail group Magnit can now authenticate contactless payments at self-checkout devices using pay-with-a-glance technology. The retailer is piloting biometric payments at 10 of its outlets in the cities of Moscow, Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don and plans to roll out the service to more than

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NFC Forum releases specifications for secure data transfer between NFC devices

The NFC Forum has released two specifications that set out a standardised cryptographic framework for enabling secure data transfer between NFC mobile devices and the development of applications using a secure communications channel between paired NFC devices. The NFC Authentication Protocol 1.0 Specification (NAP 1.0) and the Logical Link Control Protocol Technical Specification 1.4 (LLCP

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