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Timex, Mastercard and Tappy report on the role of wearable payments in urban mobility

By Mike Clark • 17 April 2020 • Updated 1 March 2024

Wearable Payment Summit 2020: Urban mobility

KNOWLEDGE CENTRE: Convenience, consumer choice, and the ability to use contactless payments for public transportation hold the key to driving the mass market adoption of wearable payments in urban environments, Timex, Mastercard and Tappy explain in a panel discussion which is now available to watch free of charge in the NFCW Knowledge Centre... More

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Barclays opens Pingit wearable payments store

By Sarah Clark • 19 August 2019 • Updated 24 September 2024

Barclays has opened an online store which will offer users of its Pingit mobile payments service a wide range of wearable payments devices, including watches, jewellery, wristbands and key fobs... More

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China’s Expresspay Card moves into wearable payments

By Sarah Clark • 20 June 2019 • Updated 26 June 2019

PARTNER NEWS: Expresspay Card, a joint venture between China UnionPay and Bank of China that offers China’s only open loop prepaid card, has partnered with Tappy Technologies and watch brand Saga Watch to offer cardholders a wearable payments option that will be accepted at any merchant equipped to accept China UnionPay contactless payments... More

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Tappy Technologies joins the NFC World Partner Program

By Mike Clark • 22 February 2019 • Updated 29 December 2023

PARTNER NEWS: Hong Kong-based Tappy Technologies offers a range of wearable payments products including watch straps, wristbands and key fobs that come with an embedded contactless payment chip... More

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Guess unveils fashion watches with contactless payment bands

By Sarah Clark • 11 December 2018

Fashion brand Guess has launched a new collection of six watches that include a Barclaycard bPay contactless payment chip embedded in the watch strap... More

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Tappy adds biometric security to wearable payments devices

By Sarah Clark in Las Vegas • 23 October 2018 • Updated 25 July 2022

The wearer authorises contactless payments with a fingerprint scan

Wearable payments specialist Tappy Technologies has unveiled a new watch strap design that combines its existing contactless payments module with a passive fingerprint sensor that can be used to increase the security and transaction limit of wearable contactless payments... More

Elle launches BLE beacon offers across the US

By Rian Boden • 25 August 2015 • Updated 25 August 2015

Women’s fashion magazine Elle has launched a promotion across the US that makes use of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and geofence technology to trigger exclusive content and offers in a shopper’s smartphone when they are within range of a participating store partner... More

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Google Wallet SingleTap payments and offers now available at eight US merchants

By Sarah Clark • 18 October 2011 • Updated 4 July 2024

Users can now make payments and pick up offers or rewards at American Eagle Outfitters, The Container Store, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy’s, OfficeMax and Toys R Us. More

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OfficeMax goes live with Google Wallet

By Sarah Clark • 3 October 2011 • Updated 26 June 2024

Customers can now use their NFC mobile phones to make payments, redeem coupons and receive rewards via Google SingleTap terminals installed at more than one hundred of the office supplies chain’s stores in five US regions. More

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