SURVEY: Support for an independent cryptocurrency is strongest in Italy, Greece, Estonia and Spain Source: Poll for Euronews by Redfield & Wilton Strategies A “growing number” of Europeans would support the creation of national digital currencies with the specific aim of asserting “some monetary independence” from the European Union, according to a survey commissioned by […]
Google Pay is preparing to launch in Israel by the end of 2021, following a deal reached by Israeli credit card company Isracard with Google to support payments made with its card via the mobile wallet, local media outlets report. The announcement comes after Google was reported to have signed similar agreements with Israel’s Bank
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KEY DRIVER: 86% of respondents say that using mobile payment methods makes them feel safe Nearly two in three consumers in the UK (62%) would now prefer to use their payment card through a mobile wallet compared with 31% last year, according to a survey commissioned by Samsung Pay. The survey also found that, although
DIGITAL SECURITY: Customers now have greater control of their card account via their banking app Customers of DBS Bank in Singapore can now lock or unlock their debit or credit cards, enable or disable certain types of transaction — including contactless and mobile payments — and set a monthly spending limit for their card accounts
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BIOMETRIC: Ticket holders can link their palm with Amazon One and then scan to gain access to an event Ticket holders attending concerts and other events at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver in the US state of Colorado can now gain entry to the entertainment venue by scanning their palm rather than their mobile
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CASHLESS PREFERRED: 94% of customers use contactless payment at bakeries in the DACH region More than three in four cashless payments made in Germany (77%), Austria (80%) and Switzerland (82%) are now contactless — a rise of more than 35 percentage points from an average of 40% across the three countries in June 2019, according
DIGITAL RECORD: Vaccine data is checked by scanning a QR code with a Smart Health Card reader California has released the code for both the front end and middle tier of its Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Record into the public domain to enable other US states to deploy their own digital vaccination record systems more quickly.
Google Pay has officially launched its app for owners of both Android smartphones and Wear OS smartwatches in Austria. Austrian customers of neobanks and fintechs including Curve, Monese, N26, Revolut and Viva Wallet have been able to use Google Pay via their mobile banking app since November 2020, but Google has yet to confirm which
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CONTACTLESS: More than 15,000 passengers are now using Moscow’s FacePay biometric ticketing system Moscow Metro is to enable passengers travelling on all the Russian capital’s metro lines to make contactless payments for their fare at station turnstiles using its FacePay biometric ticketing system. The transport network began testing the system with 1,000 registered passengers on
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By: Dan Balaban Germany’s largest transit operator, BVG, said its pilot of contactless EMV payments extends to all of its nearly 1,500 buses, and the company has eliminated cash acceptance on board the vehicles, a spokesman confirmed to Mobility Payments. But officials in Berlin have not yet decided whether to make the contactless payments service permanent,
