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By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – Three small public transit agencies in the U.S. are quietly testing use of Google Maps and Google Pay to enable customers to first plan then pay for tickets. It’s believed to be the first pilots of its kind for Google, a move that could mean the search giant plans […]

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro,plans to introduce an Android version of its TAP closed-loop fare card, with a virtual TAP card for the Google Pay wallet, a Metro spokesman confirmed to NFC Times. Related stories, automatically selected:  Uber Expands Mobile Ticketing to More U.S. Public

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – As expected, Uber today has expanded support for public transit ticketing in its app again, this time to a consortium of 1 Related stories, automatically selected:  UPDATED: Ohio-Based Transit Agency Group Planning to Enable Mobile Ticketing Through Uber App Software-as-Service Platforms for Transit Agencies Begin to Support Open-Loop Payments

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Another of Italy’s major cities has launched open-loop fare collection, with Turin enabling customers to pay for rides on its one-line metro and certain bus routes by tapping their contactless EMV credit and debit cards, along with smartphones and smartwatches supporting NFC payments services. read more

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Canada’s third largest city, Calgary, has introduced its first electronic fare payments service, offering mobile ticketing from a software-as-a-service platform provider, with plans to enable customers to pay for fares with their contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets. Related stories, automatically selected:  Cubic Expands Agreement

By:  Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – As e-commerce continues to grow in importance as Covid-19 lockdowns ease, four major U.S. payments networks announced today they are laying the groundwork to expand their uniform e-commerce checkout platform internationally. Related stories, automatically selected:  With E-Commerce Skyrocketing, Tokenized Transactions Expected to Soar, as Well In-Depth: Tokenization Figures

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The head of transit payments gateway and processor Littlepay said he believes that Apple and Google are well-positioned to take a “big bite out of the payment chain,” which could change their relationship with payments networks Visa and Mastercard from one of collaboration to one of competition. Related

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based Cubic Transportation Systems and Israel-based trip planning app provider Moovit, now owned by Intel, have expanded their partnership to develop mobile services for transit agencies, seeking to enable transit customers to “look, book and pay” for multimodal journeys. Related stories, automatically selected:  Software-as-Service Platforms for Transit Agencies

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Major Brussels transit operator STIB-MIVB plans to begin accepting contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets on Wednesday, the latest European capital to launch open-loop payments following the success of the technology as demonstrated in London. Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Boston Transit Agency Seeks to Put

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The massive new fare-collection system planned by Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, which will include open-loop contactless payments and an expanded closed-loop program, has had trouble getting off the ground. Late last week, the transit agency finalized its “reset” of the project, agreeing to increase the