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By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Up to a third of transit riders in several cities say contactless payments and mobile ticketing would encourage them to return t Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Trip-Planning Giant Moovit Begins to Enable Ticketing and Payments, as Rivals Make Similar Moves Biggest U.S. Supermarket Chain Trials Contactless as […]

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it is seeing steady growth in use of its OMNY open-loop fare payments system by cu Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Boston Transit Agency Seeks to Put Massive Fare-Collection Project Back on Track In-Depth: As Covid-19 Causes Transit Ridership to Plummet, Third-Party

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Moovit, which bills itself as the world’s largest “urban mobility app,” has begun to enable public transit ticketing and payments from its platform, as it seeks to deliver what it says is a true mobility-as-a-service experience for users. Related stories, automatically selected:  Exclusive: Google Tests Mobile Ticketing Initiated

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Another major U.S. transit agency has introduced a virtual closed-loop card for Apple Pay this week, with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro, announcing the move Thursday. It comes a couple of days after the Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, announced it had

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple added support for its latest closed-loop transit card for Apple Pay, enabling customers of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or WMATA, to tap their NFC-enabled iPhones and Apple Watches to pay for rides with WMATA’s SmarTrip virtual card. Related stories, automatically selected:  Insight: Apple’s Long Game

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – It’s coming up on six years since Apple announced its groundbreaking digital-payments service, Apple Pay. And while consumer adoption remains a work in progress, Apple has had considerable success gaining participation from banks and other issuers in what is now more than 50 countries worldwide. Related stories, automatically

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Another transit agency in Canada has announced it will enable mobile ticketing, along with reloadable contactless cards, citing in part the Covid-19 pandemic and the desire to reduce the use of cash, vending machines and customer interaction with agency staff. Related stories, automatically selected:  Calgary Transit Launches Mobile-Ticketing

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The announcement by The Kroger Co., the largest supermarket chain in the U.S., that it has begun trialing contactless payments in a subsidiary indicates that one of the last major holdouts among big U.S. merchants will eventually accept such NFC payments services as Apple Pay and Google Pay,

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – There’s more evidence that popular trip-planning apps Transit, Moovit and Google Maps are seeking to expand further into mobile ticketin Related stories, automatically selected:  Exclusive: Google Tests Mobile Ticketing Initiated in Maps App; Could Lead to Mobility-as-a-Service Offer? Cubic Expands Agreement with Moovit, Seeking to Drive More Use

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – In a move seeking to expand the base of merchants that can accept its payments service, Apple Pay, Apple has reportedly acquired Montreal, Canada-based mobile POS company Mobeewave, which could enable small shop owners, restaurants and street vendors, among others, to more easily accept contactless EMV cards and