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The countries which have announced increases to date are Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt ...

STAGGERED ROLLOUT: The ECB aims to present the plan for the potential realisation phase of the digital euro to its governing council in Q3 2023 The European Central Bank (ECB) has laid out plans for a ...

Google Wallet is now available in Argentina, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro, bringing the total number of countries where the digital wallet is available to 66. The ...

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RETAIL: The Nobid pilot is focusing on payments, one of the key elements of the EU’s digital ID wallet The European Commission has selected four proposals for large-scale pilot programmes to test the ...

The NFC Forum is to support the EU’s introduction of digital product passports by defining additional standards that will make it possible for NFC tags to be used to process on-product DPPs, enable ...

OPEN LOOP: Customers can now pay using their contactless bank card, NFC mobile phone or smartwatch Public transportation users in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon can now pay for the journeys they ...

TAP2RIDE: Athens’ contactless payment system works across the city’s entire public transport network Public transportation users in Athens can now use the Greek capital city’s new tap2ride service to ...

The Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) is to pilot the use of a prototype central bank digital currency (CBDC) for offline transactions using pre-loaded contactless cards at RMIT University in the ...

SIMPLER PAYMENTS: Alipay’s tap-and-pay service turns a smartphone into an NFC tag reader Alipay, China’s leading mobile payments provider and the pioneer of QR mobile payments, has launched a new ...

Adoption of Visa’s Tap to Phone softPOS solution has increased 200% year-on-year globally and by 234% in the ‘highest’ countries — the US, the UK and Brazil — Visa reports. There are now “millions of ...