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Dubai Transit Authority Plans to Launch Its Closed-Loop Card in More NFC Wallets

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By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, which in December first launched mobile fare payments with a digital version of its closed-loop card in Huawei smartphones, says it plans to expand the service to other OEMs, including Apple and Samsung. Related stories, automatically selected:  Apple Pay Enables Ventra Closed-Loop […]

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Case Study: Transit Agency in Portugal Combined NFC with BLE for Mobile Ticketing and Faced Challenges

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By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The agency that runs ticketing for 19 public bus, tram and train operators serving Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, says it has had success–and faced several challenges–with the rollout of its Anda mobile-ticketing app. Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Contactless Open-Loop Pilot in Spain First Project from Vendor

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Case Study: Transit Agency in Portugal Combined NFC with BLE for Mobile Ticketing; Faced Challenges

NFC Times /

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The agency that runs ticketing for 19 public bus, tram and train operators serving Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, says it has had success–and faced several challenges–with the rollout of its Anda mobile-ticketing app. Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Contactless Open-Loop Pilot in Spain First Project from Vendor

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OCBC Bank adds facial recognition at ATMs in Singapore

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Customers of OCBC Bank in Singapore can now make account balance enquiries at eight of the bank’s ATMs by verifying their identity using facial recognition technology. OCBC plans to add face verification for cash withdrawals and roll out the service to all its ATMs in Singapore “progressively”, with biometric authentication for cash deposits, fund transfers,

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Alpha Bank upgrades NFC mobile wallet with latest tokenization innovations

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PARTNER NEWS: Greece’s Alpha Bank has launched a new version of its myAlpha NFC payments wallet that makes use of Antelop Solutions’ Issuer TSP hub to add support for the latest Visa VTS and Mastercard MDES tokenization innovations. The upgraded version of the myAlpha wallet allows bank customers to digitize and manage all their Alpha

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EU citizens to get digital vaccination certificates they can display on their mobile phone

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European Union residents will be able to confirm that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, received a negative test result or recovered from the illness using an EU-wide Digital Green Certificate by the summer, according to a legislative proposal issued by the European Commission. The certificate will include a QR code with information about the

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Apple Stores to use NFC tags for enhanced custom notifications?

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Apple Store customers may soon be able to receive enhanced custom notifications for subscription services including Apple Arcade, Apple TV+ and Apple Music by tapping in-store NFC tags. The NFC tags and QR codes currently deployed in some Apple Store outlets redirect customers to the landing page of Apple service apps, but the iOS 14.5

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