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“75% of all Mastercard transactions across Europe are now contactless,” Milan Gauder, Mastercard’s EVP product and innovation for Europe, explains. “This increase in contactless limits will mean ...

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The NFC Forum has announced that it is in the process of developing a Digital Product Passport (DPP) standard that would allow electronic goods manufacturers to use NFC tags and chips to provide ...

SEAMLESS RESALE: The NFC tag enables owners to prove provenance and resell the item via Poshmark : Owners of handbags, wallets, clothes and shoes from Coach’s sustainable Coachtopia brand can now ...

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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 ...

CONTACTLESS: Shoppers check in at the entrance by tapping their payment card or device Lithuanian supermarket chain IKI has opened its second contactless convenience store in the capital Vilnius, ...

Tokyo Metro and Tokyu Corporation are to test enabling passengers on subway and rail services in and around the Japanese capital to make contactless fare payments with their debit or credit cards ...

FACE RECOGNITION: Osaka’s contactless biometric ticketing system trial is due to start in March Passengers travelling on train services operated by JR West between two railway stations in the Japanese ...

The number of cities worldwide where Google Wallet users can now store digital transit tickets or make open loop or closed loop contactless fare payments with a credit, debit or prepaid transit card ...

SURVEY: Card payments were the most frequently used method at the POS in Finland and the Netherlands More than six in ten card payments made at the point of sale (POS) across European countries within ...