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Spanish banks to pilot digital euro for contactless in-store payments

By Tom Phillips • 14 November 2022 • Updated 14 November 2022

Front of Deutsche Bank building in Spain

Some 30 banks and payment services providers in Spain, including BBVA, Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, ING, Deutsche Bank and Iberpay, have set up a working group to test the use of a digital euro for contactless in-store payments as well as ecommerce transactions and peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers... More

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Spanish banks to launch digital ID platform

By Tom Phillips • 6 November 2020 • Updated 6 November 2020

Spanish consumers are set to be able to self-manage their digital identity on their mobile device using a blockchain-enabled platform being developed by a consortium of 10 companies that includes leading Spanish banks Banco Santander, Bankia, CaixaBank, and Liberbank... More

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European banks to create cross-border instant payments system

By Sarah Clark • 3 July 2020 • Updated 5 July 2020

Sixteen major European banks have announced plans to jointly create a new company that will be tasked with delivering “a seamless, competitive and unified payment solution” for in-store, online and P2P payments across Europe... More

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Fitbit unveils Ionic smartwatch with Mastercard, Visa, AmEx and Starbucks payments support

By Sarah Clark • 29 August 2017 • Updated 29 August 2017

Fitness wearable maker Fitbit has launched Ionic, a smartwatch that will combine health and fitness functions with the ability to make contactless Visa, Mastercard and American Express payments as well as payments using the wearer’s Starbucks Card account... More

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Spanish bank offers 5% Apple Pay discount

By Rian Boden • 14 December 2016

Banco Santander in Spain is offering customers a 5% discount on items bought using Apple Pay until 15 January 2017... More

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Apple Pay launches in Spain

By Christopher Brown • 2 December 2016

Apple Pay has been officially launched in Spain, with Apple developing partnerships with Banco Santander, payment giants American Express and Mastercard, retailer Carrefour and prepaid meal payment service Ticket Restaurant... More

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Apple Pay to launch in Spain?

By Christopher Brown • 1 December 2016 • Updated 19 April 2023

Apple Pay is to launch in Spain on 1 December with support from Banco Santander, according to Spanish news website Applesfera... More

R3 investment details take shape

By Christopher Brown • 24 November 2016 • Updated 23 November 2016

Blockchain consortium R3 has reduced the amount it aims to raise from bank members in its first large round of equity funding to US$150m from US$200m, Reuters reports... More

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Banco Santander launches HCE in Spain

By Rian Boden • 21 April 2016

Customers of Banco Santander in Spain can now make host card emulation (HCE) based mobile payments using their NFC devices and the Santander Wallet mobile app... More

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Madrid pilots contactless ticketing

By Rian Boden • 4 March 2016 • Updated 21 January 2019

Commuters in Madrid are piloting contactless bank card payments on 33 buses across two bus lines as a result of a partnership between EMT, which operates the city’s bus network, and MasterCard, Banco Santander and Santander Elavon... More

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Spanish banks and carrier launch mobile offers platform that links discounts to bank cards

By Rian Boden • 17 June 2014 • Updated 10 October 2022

Yaap, a joint venture between Spanish banks CaixaBank and Banco Santander and mobile network operator Telefonica, has launched a mobile commerce platform that lets consumers access merchant offers on their mobile device and then redeem them automatically by simply paying for a purchase with a pre-linked debit or credit card... More

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Banco Santander provides students with NFC microSDs

By Rian Boden • 31 March 2014 • Updated 27 January 2019

A mobile campus card service that uses NFC built into microSD cards is now live at a “number of universities”, enabling students to use their mobile phone to make payments in canteens and to access buildings... More

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Spanish bus drivers to check tickets using NFC host card emulation

By Rian Boden • 29 January 2014 • Updated 27 January 2019

Nexus 5 smartphone with Ticktrack NFC ticket reader

“HCE is a game-changing technology for NFC,” says technology provider Aditium’s Ibai Iturricha. “With HCE we have the chance to develop the whole solution without having to rely on any other party… With the entry of HCE we are free.” More

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Chile NFC pilot to begin in Santiago

By Karl Dyer • 2 September 2013 • Updated 22 August 2022

More details of the NFC payments pilot to be carried out by mobile network operator Movistar and banking group Banco Santander in Chile later this year have been revealed... More

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NFC pilot to begin in Chile

By Sarah Clark • 14 August 2013

Mobile network operator Movistar has partnered with Banco Santander, Samsung, Oberthur Technologies and MasterCard to conduct Chile’s first NFC payments trial... More

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Spanish university to roll out NFC services across entire campus

By Mike Clark • 24 September 2012 • Updated 4 February 2019

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM)

UCAM, the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, is to be the first university in the world to implement NFC technology across its entire campus, the university’s Samuel Mendoza, director of multimedia, and Sergio Leon, director of the computing service, have told members of the Higher Education Smart Card Association (HESCA) at a meeting in London this month... More

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Santander unveils first NFC wallet to offer both Visa and MasterCard payments

By Sarah Clark • 26 February 2012 • Updated 26 September 2022

The banking giant, the eighth largest in the world, has partnered with Orange for the development and introduction of the first NFC payments solution to support cards issued by both Visa and MasterCard. More

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17 news stories.

Spanish banks to pilot digital euro for contactless in-store payments

Spanish banks to launch digital ID platform

European banks to create cross-border instant payments system

Fitbit unveils Ionic smartwatch with Mastercard, Visa, AmEx and Starbucks payments support

Spanish bank offers 5% Apple Pay discount

Apple Pay launches in Spain

Apple Pay to launch in Spain?

R3 investment details take shape

Banco Santander launches HCE in Spain

Madrid pilots contactless ticketing

Spanish banks and carrier launch mobile offers platform that links discounts to bank cards

Banco Santander provides students with NFC microSDs

Spanish bus drivers to check tickets using NFC host card emulation

Chile NFC pilot to begin in Santiago

NFC pilot to begin in Chile

Spanish university to roll out NFC services across entire campus

Santander unveils first NFC wallet to offer both Visa and MasterCard payments