Close to nine in ten (87.1%) of all card payments made in Ireland last year were contactless and more than half of those were made using an NFC mobile phone, Banking & Payments Federation Ireland ...

SOFTPOS: Alaska Airlines is introducing Apple Tap to Pay on iPhone on selected flights before a full rollout Alaska Airlines has become the first in the US to roll out support for Apple’s Tap to Pay ...

Tourists and other foreigners visiting China can now upload digital yuan to the country’s prototype central bank digital currency (CBDC) digital wallet using their Mastercard or Visa credit card.

SOFTPOS: Dutch merchants can now accept all types of contactless payments using Apple Tap to Pay Merchants in the Netherlands can now use their Apple iPhone to accept contactless payments without ...

Mastercard and HSBC in the UK are piloting a card recycling system that the payments network hopes will become a blueprint for the global card industry. In the pilot, cardholders can drop off any ...

Customers of Kuwait International Bank (KIB) can now apply for a biometric payment card that allows them to authenticate contactless payments at the point of sale with their fingerprints. KIB is ...

Apple Pay has launched in El Salvador and Guatemala with support for Mastercard and Visa credit and debit cards issued by BAC Credomatic and Promerica banks in both countries as well as by Banco G&T ...

TAP TO PAY: Merchants in Taiwan can now use their iPhone to accept contactless card and digital wallet payments Merchants in Taiwan have become the first outside the USA to be able to accept in-store ...

METAVERSE: Purchasers scan the NFC tag to create an NFT digital twin they can use to dress their avatar Fashion house Hugo Boss has added an NFC tag to a range of baseball caps that enables purchasers ...

BLOCKCHAIN: The Expo Digital Wallet is being developed for the event for cashless mobile payment The World Expo 2025 in the Japanese city of Osaka will be the first world’s fair to be entirely ...

STAGGERED ROLLOUT: The ECB aims to present the plan for the potential realisation phase of the digital euro to its governing council in Q3 2023 The European Central Bank (ECB) has laid out plans for a ...

Samsung Wallet will soon go live in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, enabling users to store and use digital payment, loyalty, membership and identity cards ...