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11 news stories about Pakistan


Pakistan to launch national digital identity wallet

By Tom Phillips • 2 February 2022 • Updated 2 February 2022 • nfcw.com
Pakistan Pak-ID national digital identity wallet graphics screenshot

Citizens of Pakistan will soon be able to apply for, store and display a digital version of their national identity card in a digital ID wallet on their smartphone using an updated version of the country’s Pak-ID mobile app... More


Pakistan lets citizens apply for national IDs from their smartphone

By Tom Phillips • 6 September 2021 • Updated 6 September 2021 • nfcw.com
Pakistan national ID on smartphone

Citizens of Pakistan can now apply for a national ID card using a mobile app that enables them to scan the documents needed to support their application and verify their identity with their fingerprint and a photograph of their face from their smartphone... More


What's New in Payments

Huawei Pay goes live in Pakistan

By Tom Phillips • 26 February 2021 • Updated 26 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Huawei Pay on NFC phone with National Bank of Pakistan virtual card

Customers of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) with a compatible smartphone can now add their UnionPay International (UPI) virtual card to a Huawei Pay digital wallet and use it to make NFC or QR code-enabled mobile payments... More


What's New in Payments

Dual NFC and QR mobile payments service launches in Pakistan

By Sarah Clark • 17 March 2020 • nfcw.com
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) green logo

UnionPay, Huawei and National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) have launched a mobile payments service that lets owners of Huawei and Honor NFC phones use a single mobile wallet app to pay at any merchant equipped to accept either contactless or QR code payments... More


What's New in Payments

Huawei Pay expands to Pakistan

By Sarah Clark • 22 January 2020 • Updated 22 January 2020 • nfcw.com

Huawei starts its mobile wallet service Huawei Pay in Pakistan — Technology Times — “Huawei has launched its mobile wallet service Huawei Pay in Pakistan in cooperation with UnionPay International and National Bank of Pakistan, making it the fourth market where Huawei Pay has been made available, following China, Russia and Hong Kong.”


What's New in Payments

Visa CEO forecasts ‘significant contactless growth’ in the US

By Sarah Clark • 5 November 2018 • nfcw.com
Visa CEO Alfred Kelly

“The US market is poised for significant contactless growth over the coming year,” Visa CEO Alfred F Kelly has told analysts... More


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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


What's New in Payments

Pakistan to add payments to National IDs

By Rian Boden • 24 January 2017 • nfcw.com

Mastercard is to work with the Government of Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to introduce a system that will enable Pakistani citizens to use their identity cards to conduct financial transactions... More


What's New in Payments

Pakistan bank offers mobile ATM cash withdrawals

By Rian Boden • 7 December 2016 • Updated 5 February 2019 • nfcw.com

Customers of Pakistan’s Askari Bank can now withdraw cash from ATMs using their mobile phone... More


What's New in Payments

Mobicash offers NFC payments at vending machines

By Rian Boden • 11 August 2015 • nfcw.com

Mobile financial services provider Mobicash is to allow users in Pakistan to make NFC mobile payments at Wavetec vending machines following a trial... More


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Non-payment applications come out on top in Forum competition

By Sarah Clark • 28 April 2009 • Updated 18 October 2014 • nfcw.com

Interactive Research & Development’s medical system and VTT Technical Research Centre’s social networking concept picked up first place prizes in the NFC Forum’s Global Competition. More


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