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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – Three small public transit agencies in the U.S. are quietly testing use of Google Maps and Google Pay to enable customers to first plan then pay for tickets. It’s believed to be the first pilots of its kind for Google, a move that could mean the search giant plans
Peachwire and Rheavendors together launch RHEAMOTE. The new touchless interface has been implemented in a customized version, RHEAMOTE, to be used with RHEAVENDORS vending machines. RHEAMOTE, in fact, recognizes the vending machine model and shows a keyboard layout similar to the one you see on the machine display.With a single app, you can select the
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro,plans to introduce an Android version of its TAP closed-loop fare card, with a virtual TAP card for the Google Pay wallet, a Metro spokesman confirmed to NFC Times. Related stories, automatically selected: Uber Expands Mobile Ticketing to More U.S. Public
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – As expected, Uber today has expanded support for public transit ticketing in its app again, this time to a consortium of 1 Related stories, automatically selected: UPDATED: Ohio-Based Transit Agency Group Planning to Enable Mobile Ticketing Through Uber App Software-as-Service Platforms for Transit Agencies Begin to Support Open-Loop Payments
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