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What's New in Payments

Banks to pilot biometric payment cards in India, Poland, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt

By Tom Phillips • 5 January 2022 • Updated 5 January 2022 • nfcw.com
Zwipe Pay One biometric payment card with payment device

Banks in India, Poland, Iraq, Mexico, Lebanon and Egypt are among those set to trial biometric payment cards that enable customers to authenticate contactless payments with their fingerprints... More


What's New in Payments

Table: Contactless payment transaction limit increases around the world

By Sarah Clark • 26 March 2020 • Updated 13 February 2022 • nfcw.com
EMVCo's universal contactless payment symbol

Updated 27 August 2021 Countries around the world are increasing the contactless transaction limit in a bid to lower cash usage to combat the spread of Covid-19... More


What's New in Payments

UK raises contactless transaction limit by 50%

By Sarah Clark • 24 March 2020 • nfcw.com
Barclaycard raises contactless transaction limit

The spending limit for contactless card payments in the UK is being increased from £30 (US$35.33) to £45 (US$52.99), UK Finance has announced. The new spending limit will begin to roll out from 1 April 2020. More


What's New in Payments

Egypt promotes cashless payments with increased contactless transaction limit, free prepaid cards and mobile wallets

By Sarah Clark • 23 March 2020 • nfcw.com
Central Bank of Egypt logo

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has introduced a series of measures designed to reduce the need for citizens to use cash to make payments, including a doubling of the contactless payment transaction limit and free access to both prepaid card and mobile wallet services... More


What's New in Payments

Egypt’s banks to use common QR code standard for mobile payments

By Sarah Clark • 25 January 2018 • Updated 25 January 2018 • nfcw.com

CBE issues standard criteria for accepting electronic payment using QR code — Daily News Egypt — “The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has issued electronic acceptance criteria for payments through QR code… These unified standards will apply to all banks licensed to accept payments electronically in Egypt.”


What's New in Payments

Egypt: National Council for payments issues five important decisions

By Rian Boden • 6 June 2017 • nfcw.com

Egypt: National Council for payments issues five important decisions — MobileMoneyAfrica — “The National Council for Payments issued a number of important decisions, with the aim of transforming Egypt from a society that relies on cash to a cashless one.”


What's New in Payments

Mastercard and Visa expand availability of QR payments

By Sarah Clark • 28 February 2017 • Updated 28 February 2017 • nfcw.com

Visa’s mVisa QR-based mobile payment service is now live in India, Kenya and Rwanda and will soon be available in Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Vietnam, the company has announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona... More


NFC World

Etisalat demos NFC in Egypt

By Mike Clark • 27 August 2012 • Updated 27 August 2012 • nfcw.com

Etisalat Misr, Egypt’s leading mobile network operator, has installed an NFC access control system at its premises in Cairo... More


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