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Contactless payments will account for more than half (57%) of the total global value of transactions made at the point of sale (POS) by 2026, compared with just under 25% in 2021, Juniper Research predicts. It also forecasts that the number of smartphones enabled to accept contactless payments using soft POS technology will grow from […]

DIGITAL PROOF: More than 200m Digital Covid Certificates have been generated across the EU to date The European Union’s Digital Covid Certificate is now live across the EU as well as in non-member states Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, enabling residents to be issued with a proof of their Covid-19 vaccination status, negative Covid test result

Passengers on 24 subway lines and four suburban rail services in the Chinese capital of Beijing can now use the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to make contactless payments for their fares from a digital yuan mobile wallet issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The move comes as a subway line

COVID CARD: Android users will be able to store and display the digital Covid-19 certificate on their device Google Pay has updated its Passes API to enable healthcare organisations, government agencies and other authorised bodies to create digital Covid-19 vaccination and test result certificates that Android users can store and display directly on their mobile

Public transport users in Northern Ireland will soon be able to make tap-on-tap-off contactless fare payments on all bus and rail services across the whole province using their debit or credit card or a single transit smartcard. Public transport operator Translink’s Future Ticketing System will also enable passengers making multiple journeys across the Northern Ireland

TICKETING UPGRADE: Philadelphia plans to expand the ticketing options for public transport users South East Philadelphia Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in the US is planning to upgrade or replace its SEPTA Key transit card system in order to offer passengers on its bus, trolley and rail networks in the Greater Philadelphia region a wider range of

SHARED PLATFORM: The MobilePay, Pivo and Vipps merger will see the creation of a single digital wallet Bank-owned Nordic mobile payment providers Vipps in Norway, MobilePay in Denmark and Pivo in Finland are to merge and will create a single digital wallet that consumers can use in all three countries, as well as for cross-border

NFC ENERGY: The transient pacemaker provides temporary cardiac support before gradually dissolving Scientists at Northwestern and George Washington universities in the US have developed a wireless, battery-free implantable pacemaker that uses NFC to harvest energy from an external antenna and dissolves after it is no longer needed to control a patient’s heartbeat. The device —

CASHLESS: Digital purchases at vending machines using Canteloupe’s payment platform now outstrip cash The average number of digital payments made for purchases from vending machines in the US grew steadily during 2019, finally exceeded those made with cash in April 2020 and continued to increase over the course of 2020, a new study shows. By