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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mar 11 2021 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
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Merchants in India can now use a standard Android NFC smartphone to accept contactless payments using a software point of sale (sPOS) solution being rolled out by mobile payments giant Paytm. To use the service, merchants download Paytm Smart POS via the Paytm Business app and can begin collecting credit and debit card payments without
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Residents of Sweden will be able to store a digital certificate proving they have been inoculated against Covid-19 on their mobile phone or access their certificate via an NFC sticker attached to their passport by the beginning of June, the Swedish government has announced. “We now have a model that is simple, safe and versatile.
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