Fiat Chrysler to let drivers order and pay for fuel, food and parking from their vehicles

Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicle owners will be able to use a new Fiat Chrysler mobile wallet to order and pay for a range of services from their vehicles “in the second half of 2019”. Launch partners include Shell, Domino’s, ParkWhiz and Yelp Reservations The car maker’s Uconnect Market Commerce Platform will deploy “via

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Eagle Creek lets luggage owners share their stories via NFC

“Travellers can see a personalised dashboard that shows all the places they’ve travelled, along [with] a leaderboard that ranks their mileage against the other owners of its line of Caldera luggage. Eagle Creek also provides a lost-and-found feature to help people locate misplaced bags, warranty registration features and detailed product information and videos. Caldera owners

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Saudi banks pilot blockchain-based cardless ATM withdrawals

“The Saudi Arabian trial will enable local consumers to use their faces and blockchain-based apps to withdraw money from cashpoint machines instead of PINs. The ID authentication prototype, currently under test, can communicate across banks and uses blockchain to confirm an individual’s identity without accessing the bank’s database.” Read the rest of Saudi banks pilot

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Societe Generale lets cardholders add personalized bank cards to Apple Pay

“Societe Generale offers over 180 personalised physical cards, but this marks the first time customers will see the exact same card as they have in their wallet in Apple Pay. ‘With Apple Pay’s personalisation mirroring our cards’ personalisation, we are demonstrating continuity between our digital and our physical products,’ said Julien Claudon, head of card

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Visa to let merchants offer installment plans to cardholders

“Visa’s instalment capabilities are changing the game by allowing issuers to leverage an existing payment account consumers already have and are familiar with, instead of asking them to submit to a credit check, download an app or open another line of credit,” said Sam Shrauger, senior vice president, global head of issuer and consumer solutions,

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Visa Deepens Push into Tokenization with Planned Acquisition of Rambus Payments and Ticketing Unit

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Visa plans to buy the payments and ticketing unit of U.S.-based chip company Rambus for $75 million, as the payments network seeks to expand tokenization beyond Visa cards, including to bank accounts used for real-time payments, as well as to transactions processed by domestic networks. Related stories, automatically

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SELFBLUE. Improved the user experience of the “Social drinks” feature on the mobile app

With this update, the mobile app will show the user: On which vending machine or, alternatively, on which type of vending machine you can use free drinks; Optionally, on which selection or which price to use the free drinks. Furthermore, for vending operators, the maximum number of free drinks that can be sent each time

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EU offers issuers extra time to implement strong customer authentication

“In order to avoid unintended negative consequences for some payment service users after 14 September 2019, CAs [national competent authorities] may decide to work with PSPs [payment service providers] and relevant stakeholders, including consumers and merchants, to provide limited additional time to allow issuers to migrate to authentication approaches that are compliant with SCA [strong

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