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By:  Dan Balaban A fourth city in Finland is beginning to roll out contactless open-loop payments, with “more in the pipeline,” according to one supplier on the project, making the Nordic country one of the latest hotspots for the technology. Related stories, automatically selected:  Special Report: Interest Grows in ‘White-Label EMV’ for Closed-Loop Transit Cards […]

By:  Dan Balaban Moscow Metro said contactless fare payments have doubled this year, as the large transit agency continues to add acceptance points for a range of contactless bank card brands and NFC wallets. Related stories, automatically selected:  Moscow Metro Expands Test of ‘Virtual Troika’ in Pays Wallets, as It Continues to Develop Digital-Payments Services

By:  Dan Balaban As more transit agencies introduce open-loop fare payments, interest is starting to grow in use of white-label EMV cards that agencies can issue in place of proprietary closed-loop cards for riders who don’t have bank cards or don’t want to use them to pay fares. Related stories, automatically selected:  Exclusive: NFC Wallets

By:  NFC Times Two more bus operators in Hong Kong on Saturday launched acceptance of open-loop contactless fare payments, with both also accepting QR code-based mobile ticketing–as the near ubiquitous closed-loop Octopus card continues to see more competition. Related stories, automatically selected:  Apple Launches Overdue Octopus Payments Service in Hong Kong, as It Continues to

By:  NFC Times Skånetrafiken, the transit agency serving one of Sweden’s largest counties, announced today it has expanded its contactless open-loop payments service to include the Express Mode feature for Apple Pay. Related stories, automatically selected:  Exclusive: NFC Wallets Grow as Share of Contactless Fare Payments and Not Only Because of Covid Contactless EMV Card

By:  Dan Balaban Transit agencies that have rolled out open-loop contactless payments are seeing growing use of NFC wallets to pay fares, as Covid-wary passengers see convenience in tapping their phones or wearables to pay. Related stories, automatically selected:  Visa and Chase Seize on Launch of New York City Transit Payments Service to Try to

By:  Dan Balaban Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, whose metropolitan area is home to more than 30 million people, is notorious for its stifling traffic congestion. In response, the government metro and light-rail networks and now it is funding an expansion of the fare-collection system to enable more multimodal payments and to build a mobility-as-a-service platform. Related

By:  Dan Balaban Touting it as the largest rollout of biometric payments in the world, Moscow Metro launched its high-profile “Face Pay” service Friday, as expected, and predicted that 10% to 15% would regularly us Related stories, automatically selected:  Moscow Metro Launches Test of Facial Recognition Fare Payments Ahead of Rollout; Agency Says Masks Can

By:  Dan Balaban Large Paris regional transit authority Île-de-France Mobilités is finally moving closer to supporting mobile ticketing on a range of Android phones using host-card emulation technology from Google, after having rejected the technology as not secure enough. Related stories, automatically selected:  Insight: Apple Pay Launch of Virtual Closed-Loop Virtual Clipper Card Follows Emerging

By:  Dan Balaban Transport for Greater Manchester in the UK is the latest transit agency seeing substantial growth of contactless open-loop fare payments from NFC mobile wallets–with the percentage of its contactless tram trips paid for with Apple Pay, Google Pay and other Pays services more than doubling over the past two years, NFC Times’