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Four news stories about North America


What's New in Payments

Alipay expands presence to North America

By Rian Boden • 10 May 2017 • nfcw.com

Chinese tourists in North America will soon be able to make in-store mobile payments at some 4m locations using Alipay, following a partnership between the mobile payment service and payment processor First Data... More


What's New in Payments

Wearable payments platform to be tested on three continents

By Christopher Brown • 9 March 2017 • Updated 9 March 2017 • nfcw.com

A digital cash service allowing consumers — including those without bank accounts — to load money onto a range of wearable items and make contactless payments in retail outlets will roll out across “eight or nine countries” in North America, Europe and Africa from April 2017... More


Gartner predicts 20.4bn connected ‘things’ by 2020

By Rian Boden • 9 February 2017 • Updated 16 August 2019 • nfcw.com

Some 8.4bn connected “things” will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31% from 2016, with 20.4bn in use by 2020, Gartner predicts... More


What's New in Payments

Masterpass to enable in-store NFC mobile payments

By Rian Boden • 18 July 2016 • nfcw.com
MasterPass

Mastercard has unveiled an enhanced version of its Masterpass digital payment platform, adding in-store NFC mobile payment capability to the service that has so far only been available for online and in-app payments. More


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