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Mobile contactless payments now account for one in three card transactions in Russia

By Tom Phillips • 2 December 2021 • Updated 2 December 2021

Mobile contactless payments now account for just over a third of all card transactions (34%) and just under a third of total card transaction value (31%) in Russia compared with 25% of transactions and 23% of transaction value in 2019-2020, according to MTS Bank research... More

Singapore lets residents store digital Covid vaccination certificates on Android devices

By Tom Phillips • 8 November 2021 • Updated 8 November 2021

Singapore digital Covid vaccine certificates on Android smartphone

Residents of Singapore can now add a digital version of their Covid-19 vaccination certificate to their Android device and access it from Google Pay or by adding a shortcut to their device’s home page... More

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US entertainment venues roll out contactless digital cloakroom ticketing using NFC

By Tom Phillips • 2 November 2021 • Updated 2 November 2021

Contactless NFC digital cloakroom ticketing on smartphone

Concert-goers attending events at entertainment venues across North America will soon be able to check in and check out coats, bags and other items at the cloakroom with a tap of their NFC-enabled Apple or Android device rather than using a paper ticket... More

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Google lets US drivers use Assistant to pay for fuel with their voice

By Tom Phillips • 27 September 2021 • Updated 27 September 2021

Google Drive with Google Assistant for paying for fuel with voice

Drivers refuelling at more than 32,500 fuel stations across the US will soon be able to make hands-free payments at the pump by issuing a voice command to Google Assistant... More

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Monzo lets customers link virtual debit cards to funds ring fenced for specific types of expenditure

By Tom Phillips • 24 September 2021 • Updated 24 September 2021

Monzo virtual debit card payments on smartphone

Customers of UK neobank Monzo can now create virtual debit cards for specific kinds of expenditure that are linked directly to funds they have set aside for that purpose rather than to their main bank account... More

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Dallas adds bank card and digital wallet payments to contactless transit ticketing system

By Tom Phillips • 22 September 2021 • Updated 22 September 2021

Dallas DART buses with contactless transit ticketing system

Passengers using buses, trains and streetcars operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of the US state of Texas can now make contactless fare payments with their debit or credit card or from a digital wallet on their NFC-enabled mobile device... More

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Google Pay to go live in Israel this year?

By Tom Phillips • 15 September 2021 • Updated 17 September 2021

Google Pay is preparing to launch in Israel by the end of 2021, following a deal reached by Israeli credit card company Isracard with Google to support payments made with its card via the mobile wallet, local media outlets report... More

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Google Pay goes live in Austria

By Tom Phillips • 13 September 2021 • Updated 13 September 2021

Google Pay has officially launched its app for owners of both Android smartphones and Wear OS smartwatches in Austria. Austrian customers of neobanks and fintechs including Curve, Monese, N26, Revolut and Viva Wallet have been able to use Google Pay via their mobile banking app since November 2020. More

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South Korea passes law to open up app store payments to competing payment services

By Tom Phillips • 31 August 2021 • Updated 31 August 2021

National Assembly Building of the Republic of Korea - image by clumsyforeigner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The South Korean parliament has passed a bill that will require companies such as Apple and Google to allow the use of payment services other than their own proprietary systems for the purchase of digital goods within their app stores... More

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Google Pay adds support for contactless payments on Wear OS watches in 16 more countries

By Tom Phillips • 27 August 2021 • Updated 27 August 2021

Owners of a smartwatch running Google’s Wear OS operating system will soon be able to use it to make contactless payments using Google Pay in 16 additional countries... More

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UK to increase contactless transaction limit to £100 from October

By Sarah Clark • 27 August 2021 • Updated 27 August 2021

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak

The UK will begin rolling out a new £100 (US$137) spending limit for contactless payments from 15 October 2021, UK Finance has announced... More

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Apple Pay used for more than 90% of US mobile wallet debit transactions in 2020

By Tom Phillips • 26 August 2021 • Updated 26 August 2021

The number of debit transactions completed using a mobile wallet in the US rose by 51% year-on-year to approximately 2bn in 2020, with “a noteworthy” 92% of those transactions being made with Apple Pay and just 5% with Google Pay and 3% with Samsung Pay, according to research published in the 2021 Debit Issuer Study... More

Transit Ticketing Today

Bergamo rolls out account-based contactless ticketing across public transport network

By Tom Phillips • 11 August 2021 • Updated 11 August 2021

Tramvie trams in Bergamo with contactless ticketing

Passengers on buses, trams and funicular railway services in the northern Italian city of Bergamo can now make contactless payments for their fares using their credit or debit card or from a digital wallet on their NFC-enabled mobile device... More

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Moscow Metro to roll out digital Troika transit card

By Tom Phillips • 9 August 2021 • Updated 9 August 2021

Moscow Metro has launched the final phase of testing of a digital version of the Troika transit card that enables passengers with Android smartphones to pay their fares on metro, bus, tram and local train services by tapping their device at a turnstile or validator... More

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Australia and England let residents store Covid-19 vaccination certificates in their digital wallet

By Tom Phillips • 3 August 2021 • Updated 3 August 2021

Australia digital vaccination certificate

Residents of Australia can now opt to store a digital vaccination certificate proving that they have been fully inoculated against Covid-19 in either Apple Wallet on an iOS device or in Google Pay on an Android device... More

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Australian public hearing considers case for regulatory controls to ensure payment apps get access to smartphone NFC technology

By Tom Phillips • 28 July 2021 • Updated 28 July 2021

An Australian parliamentary committee has held a public hearing at which it heard evidence from representatives of leading Australian banks, payment services providers and other financial bodies on regulatory issues including whether companies such as Apple should be mandated to allow third-party payment apps access to a smartphone’s NFC chip... More

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Santa Barbara gets fare capped open loop contactless ticketing as California rollout expands

By Tom Phillips • 28 July 2021 • Updated 28 July 2021

Clean Air Express contactless open loop payment

Passengers travelling on express bus services in the Santa Barbara region of the US state of California can now pay their fares by tapping an on-board payment reader with their contactless debit, credit, prepaid card or mobile wallet... More

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Google lets US Android users make in-store NFC payments from their Google Pay balance

By Tom Phillips • 14 July 2021 • Updated 14 July 2021

Google Pay users with an NFC-enabled Android smartphone in the US can now request a virtual debit card that allows them to make in-store contactless payments directly from their Google Pay balance... More

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New Zealand to launch national open loop contactless fare payments in 2022

By Tom Phillips • 8 July 2021 • Updated 8 July 2021

Public transport users in the New Zealand city of Canterbury will be the first to be able to make contactless fare payments with a new national public transport smartcard or their own credit or debit card using an account-based open loop payments system being introduced by the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency... More

Google Pay lets users store digital Covid vaccination certificates on their Android device

By Tom Phillips • 1 July 2021 • Updated 1 July 2021

Covid vaccination certificate on Google Pay Android smartphone

Google Pay has updated its Passes API to enable healthcare organisations, government agencies and other authorised bodies to create digital Covid-19 vaccination and test result certificates that Android users can store and display directly on their mobile device even if they have not installed the Google Pay app... More

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246 news stories about Android Pay

Mobile contactless payments now account for one in three card transactions in Russia

Singapore lets residents store digital Covid vaccination certificates on Android devices

US entertainment venues roll out contactless digital cloakroom ticketing using NFC

Google lets US drivers use Assistant to pay for fuel with their voice

Monzo lets customers link virtual debit cards to funds ring fenced for specific types of expenditure

Dallas adds bank card and digital wallet payments to contactless transit ticketing system

Google Pay to go live in Israel this year?

Google Pay goes live in Austria

South Korea passes law to open up app store payments to competing payment services

Google Pay adds support for contactless payments on Wear OS watches in 16 more countries

UK to increase contactless transaction limit to £100 from October

Apple Pay used for more than 90% of US mobile wallet debit transactions in 2020

Bergamo rolls out account-based contactless ticketing across public transport network

Moscow Metro to roll out digital Troika transit card

Australia and England let residents store Covid-19 vaccination certificates in their digital wallet

Australian public hearing considers case for regulatory controls to ensure payment apps get access to smartphone NFC technology

Santa Barbara gets fare capped open loop contactless ticketing as California rollout expands

Google lets US Android users make in-store NFC payments from their Google Pay balance

New Zealand to launch national open loop contactless fare payments in 2022

Google Pay lets users store digital Covid vaccination certificates on their Android device