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Samsung has announced the availability of a digital-first Samsung Pay Card designed to give customers in the UK “a better banking experience through their Samsung smartphone and smartwatch, whilst gaining the rewards they want along the way”. Samsung is working with Curve and Mastercard for the launch of the new card. The move follows the […]

China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that pilot testing of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) developed by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is to be expanded to cover the country’s major commercial regions and cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau. PBoC, China’s central bank, announced in April 2020 that it was

PARTNER NEWS: Samsung has launched the first Android device to include an ultra wideband (UWB) chip — and is using a chipset from NXP that includes both NFC and a secure element to enable it. Apple was the first to introduce UWB technology in a commercial device, with the launch of the iPhone 11 in

German consumers with a Galaxy S20 mobile phone will be the first to be able to use a new government-backed service that allows citizens to securely store their national ID on an embedded secure element in their smartphone, Samsung has announced. The smartphone maker is working with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI),

Tucano Coffee has installed a payments system that enables customers to make contact-free payments using face biometrics at its Afi Park coffee shop in Bucharest, Romania. The international coffee chain’s Afi Park outlet is the second to install the solution in Bucharest, following its introduction in February this year at the city’s Creamier ice cream

Croatian digital marketing agency Mint Media has launched a new service that lets consumers tap an NFC-enabled review board to quickly and easily leave a TripAdvisor, Google or Facebook review for a local business. “Over the past few years, we got a lot of requests from clients about how to improve their online reputation,” CEO

The Alchemist, a busy cocktail bar and restaurant in the UK city of Manchester, is to roll out a new service that uses finger vein biometrics to provide a combined payments, age verification and permission-based contact tracing service that removes the need for customers to carry a physical ID card. The service, developed by FinGo,

A survey of 1,000 US consumers who are familiar with contactless payment cards has found that 75% now prefer using contactless cards as their primary payment method. Sanitation (70%) and speed (67%) are the top reasons cited by respondents. “This prioritisation is most prominent among Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X when compared to Baby

Baltic banking group Citadele is offering customers in Latvia the option of ordering a payments ring that they will be able to use to make payments at any merchant equipped to accept contactless payments. Customers with a Citadele X credit card who are signed up to the bank’s X Rewards programme can pre-order a ring

“Globally, Visa now has more than 500 active transit projects and has helped a number of cities launch tap to pay solutions over the course of the pandemic,” the payments network has revealed. “After reaching a global low in April and while still below pre-Covid levels, contactless transactions for transit fares have been on the