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Italy’s national postal service provider has added QR code-based payments to its mobile payments app, to support the country’s transition from cash to digital payments. Postepay’s QR function, Codice Postepay, also offers merchant features including geolocation, integration into Postepay’s loyalty and engagement programmes — including discounts and cashback — as well as money transfers to […]

A family-run vineyard in Italy has become the first in Europe to use NFC-equipped screw caps on its bottles to protect buyers from counterfeit wines. Piedmont-based Vigneti Massa is using Nestgate NFC aluminium screw caps from Guala Closures Group on its 2018-vintage Derthona wines to give each bottle a unique identity and to allow the

The World Economic Forum has released a Policy‑Maker Toolkit for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), designed “to help central banks evaluate, design and potentially deploy CBDC”. “The framework is intended to help accelerate critical and rigorous analysis of CBDC and lay common groundwork for central banks to support stable, efficient and inclusive global systems that

Apple has introduced a new Apple Watch Connected gym program that provides users with exclusive rewards at gyms that make use of the wearable device’s NFC payments and tap-to-connect capabilities. To join the program, gyms are required to provide an exclusive incentive or reward for Apple Watch users and an app that provides them with

Public transportation users in Sydney, Australia, are now using their contactless debit card, credit card or linked device to make 1.5m journeys a week, Transport for NSW has revealed. More than 30m journeys have now been made in total since contactless payments were first piloted in 2017. While new payment options are growing in popularity

New York City has joined New Jersey, Philadelphia and San Francisco in passing legislation that makes it illegal for stores, restaurants and other retail outlets to not accept cash. “Under the bill, businesses that refuse cash face fines of $1,000 for a first violation and $1,500 for each subsequent offense,” The New York Times reports.

The Payment & Clearing Association of China (PCAC) has published a set of guidelines that regulate how payments providers making use of face recognition to process payments at the point of sale (POS) should manage the protection of consumer data. The guidelines “cover user consent and the collection, storage and use of facial data,” Regulation

Consumers purchasing premium Sicilian blood oranges will be able to track the provenance of the product using a new system that combines NFC tags and sensors placed on each box of oranges with a blockchain-based tracking system. The stickers placed on each box provide information on “the product’s origins and characteristics, facilitates customs procedures and

Card issuers in India are to be required to ship all new cards to customers with contactless functionality switched off by default — and also provide cardholders with a range of easy ways to toggle their card’s contactless support on or off. The new requirement will come into effect from 16 March 2020 and also

“Huawei has launched its mobile wallet service Huawei Pay in Pakistan in cooperation with UnionPay International and National Bank of Pakistan, making it the fourth market where Huawei Pay has been made available, following China, Russia and Hong Kong.” Read the rest of Huawei Pay expands to Pakistan at NFCW.