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Wells Fargo is running a promotion that lets selected cardholders receive a US$5 credit when they use their smartphone to make a cash withdrawal at one of the US bank’s contactless ATMs. “In order to claim the $5 statement credit, simply go to a Wells Fargo ATM, tap with Apple Pay (or another digital wallet) […]

Helsinki Regional Transport has begun the rollout of EMV contactless payments across the Finnish capital’s rail, bus and ferry network. “Work on this deployment begins immediately, starting with a flat-fare pilot for the city’s ferry route,” technology supplier Littlepay says. “Rollout to rail and bus, and the introduction of fare capping, will follow.” Read the

Samsung Pay is now live in Kazakhstan, with the backing of nine local banks — Altyn Bank, Alfa Bank, ATF Bank, CenterCredit Bank, Eurasian Bank, ForteBank, Halyk Bank, Jýsan Bank and Sberbank. Mastercard is supporting the launch with a range of offers for cardholders who choose to use their Mastercard with Samsung Pay to make

Amazon is making the cashierless store technology it uses in its Amazon Go stores available to other retailers under a new Just Walk Out brand name. “With Just Walk Out, Amazon provides retailers with proven technology that has operated with high reliability and accuracy for years in our stores,” the ecommerce giant says. “Now, we’re

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PARTNER NEWS: HID Global is using Cilab’s ci230 high-speed testing suite to reduce testing bottlenecks and standardise its NFC test results across its labs around the world — and is gaining a positive return on its investment in the equipment in less than a year, engineering director Hans-Juergen Pirch has told NFC World. HID Global

The Central Bank of The Bahamas has extended its central bank digital currency pilot to the island of Abaco and revealed that the new Sand Dollar currency will include support for offline functionality. The Sand Dollar pilot lets citizens use a digital version of the Bahamian dollar to make payments and transfer funds using their

Omny contactless card payment availability is being expanded to all local buses in Manhattan this month, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced. “The expansion to Manhattan local buses represents a dramatic increase in points where it’s possible to use Omny to make free transfers between subways and buses, which is made fast and

Payments standards body EMVCo has extended its security evaluation methodologies and processes to include support for IoT products and solutions, “enabling emerging solutions and devices to be evaluated quickly and efficiently”. “Device hardware evaluations are playing an increasingly important role in IoT assessments across various IoT payment use cases, security frameworks and emerging compliance models,”

Nigeria’s Access Bank is to introduce a payments system that uses a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence to let customers make purchases at retail stores, Ventures Africa reports. The new FacePay platform “enables more convenient payments in merchant locations and faster (withdrawals and transfers) in Access Bank branches,” the publication explains. Read the