Google Pay users in India can now access personalised information about their spending habits in 2020 using a new feature integrated into the payment service’s app... More
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MTR rolls out QR code ticketing in Hong Kong
Passengers using Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) will soon be able to travel on the system’s heavy rail network by generating a single-use QR code ticket on their mobile phone that they can scan at station turnstiles... More
RTC adds cash-to-mobile feature for contactless mobile ticketing on Las Vegas buses
Passengers on Regional Transport Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) buses in Las Vegas can now use cash to buy travel passes and top up their account to make contactless fare payments with the transit authority’s mobile ticketing app... More
CIBC raises transaction limit for customers making contactless payments with a mobile phone or smartwatch
Customers of CIBC can now make purchases of up to C$250 (US$196) with their debit card using Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or Google Pay following a 150% increase in the Canadian bank’s transaction limit for in-store payments with a mobile phone or smartwatch... More
Huawei Pay expands to South Africa
Consumers in South Africa with compatible smartphones can now use Huawei Pay to make mobile payments by scanning QR codes compatible with the Zapper scan-to-pay payments platform... More
7-Eleven launches mobile wallet that customers can load with cash in stores
Customers in 7-Eleven convenience stores across the USA can now make contactless payments at the checkout using a mobile wallet that the retail giant has added to its 7-Eleven app... More
Apple Pay to go live in Mexico “very soon”
Apple Pay is due to roll out in Mexico “very soon”, according to the payments service’s Mexican website... More
Mastercard adds NFC payments to virtual corporate cards
Businesses in the US can now issue their employees with virtual corporate cards that can be loaded into a mobile wallet and used to make payments at contactless point-of-sale terminals... More
Mashreq Bank rolls out contactless payments on standard NFC phones
Owners of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UAE can now accept contactless payments on standard Android NFC smartphones, with no need for additional hardware... More
Digital greeting cards giant Evite adds contactless gifting
Senders of Evite digital greeting cards can now also send the recipient a gift card, via an integration with Blackhawk Network‘s eGift service... More
Stocard rolls out mobile payments service in four more European countries
Leading European mobile loyalty wallet provider Stocard has expanded its Stocard Pay service to users in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, enabling them to make in-store NFC payments in addition to using the wallet to access loyalty cards and redeem rewards... More
Capital Metro pilots fare-capping service on transit app
Passengers on a low income using Capital Metro bus and rail services in the US city of Austin, Texas, can now apply to join a pilot scheme for a fare-capping service integrated with the transport operator’s CapMetro transit app... More
Matatu minibuses pilot contactless fare payments in Nairobi
Passengers using Matatu minibus services across the Kenyan capital of Nairobi can now make contactless payments for their journeys from their M-Pesa mobile wallet... More
American Express adds instant digital card provisioning for Apple Pay
American Express cardholders in the USA can now add their card to their Apple Pay wallet via the card network’s website as soon as their application has been approved, removing the need to wait for a physical card to arrive or to manually input their card details... More
Huawei Pay goes live in Malaysia
Malaysian consumers with compatible Huawei smartphones can now use Huawei Pay to make NFC mobile payments with an ICBC UnionPay credit card stored in their mobile wallet... More
Google Pay expands to 10 extra countries in Europe
Google Pay has gone live in Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal and Romania with support for Mastercard and Visa cards issued by participating banks and card issuers... More
Antelop lets banks provide their customers with a way to manage tokenized cards from within their mobile banking app
PARTNER NEWS: Antelop Solutions has launched a tokenized card management solution that makes it possible for banks to provide their customers with the ability to view, control, push, update and manage the card details that they have shared with all the different mobile wallet providers and ecommerce merchants they deal with — from within their mobile banking app... More
NFC Forum reports on consumer attitudes and adoption trends across the world
Seven in ten consumers are confident with the security contactless cards/mobile wallets provide and 88% report a consistently positive user experience with NFC contactless technologies, a survey of consumers in nine countries around the world has found... More
Garanti BBVA launches mobile-first credit card
Customers of Turkish bank Garanti BBVA can now apply for a mobile-first credit card which combines a mobile wallet that supports QR and mobile payments with a ‘blank’ physical card that comes without a printed credit card number, expiration date or CVC code printed on it... More
S&P reports on the mobile payments market in China
While Alipay and WeChat Pay have by far the largest number of mobile payments users in China overall, younger and more affluent consumers are more likely to use less well known services such as Du Xiaoman Pay and QQ Wallet, an in-depth market analysis by S&P Global has found... More