Mastercard partners with Tappy Technologies for wearable payments in Asia

PARTNER NEWS: Mastercard has announced a strategic partnership with Tappy Technologies that will see the two companies working together to let fashion brands easily add contactless payments to watches, jewellery and other accessories. Timex Group will be the first brand to use Mastercard and Tappy’s payment technologies, beginning with “a variety of collections and straps”

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CaixaBank uses NFC to let customers check in to flagship bank branch of the future

Spain’s CaixaBank has unveiled ‘all in one’, a 3,000sqm bank branch in Barcelona that showcases the latest financial technology experiences — including NFC check-ins and facial recognition ATMs. “Anyone who comes to ‘all in one’ with an appointment won’t have to wait in the queue to see their advisor,” the bank says. “Customers can use

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Tencent to let visitors to China add their payment cards to WeChat Pay

Tencent, the owner of Chinese mobile payments provider WeChat Pay, has announced that it is working with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB to enable cardholders to connect their payment cards to WeChat Pay and then use the platform to make mobile payments when visiting China. “This partnership means that we’ll be working towards

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More Transit Authorities and Operators, Including Those in UK, to Support Google Pay

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – San Francisco Bay Area transit authority MTC has confirmed to NFC Times that it will support mobile payments with its closed-loop Clipper transit card, including with Google Pay, by the end of 2020. Related stories, automatically selected:  Cubic Strikes Deal with Google to Enable Closed-Loop Transit Payments in Google

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Toronto to pilot bank card payments on public transport network

Greater Toronto area public transportation agency Metrolinx “is to start testing an open payment function on its Presto fare-card system as early as next year,” the Toronto Star reports. “We are very excited about an open payment trial that will start somewhere during 2020, that is going to start open payments on Presto,” Metrolinx CEO

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