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Mobile Payments Contribute to Slow Decline of Cash
By: K.N. Smith NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Mobile payments are one of the key factors driving the gradual replacement of cash with card and digital payments, according to the annual World Payments...
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Could China Lead Way in Using QR Codes for Mobile Transit Ticketing Instead...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While the rollout hasn’t gone quite as smoothly as planned, the Shanghai Metro’s launch of a large trial of QR code-based payments could mark a turning...
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Regulations Take Effect in China to Limit Risk of Static QR Codes Used by...
Apr 4 2018 By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Daily limits on QR code- and bar code-based transactions in China have taken effect–mainly hitting Ant Financial and its rival Tencent...
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WeChat Pay Touts Access by Merchants to Consumer Data, Messaging Channel
Apr 10 2018 By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Both Ant Financial and Tencent Holdings have used their hundreds of millions of users, ready access to Chinese bank accounts, billions of yuan...
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As QR Code Pay Progresses, NFC Remains Relevant: Panel
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Is NFC dead…again?Related stories, automatically selected: In-Depth: Chinese Payments Players Accelerate Rollouts of Transit Fare PaymentsAnother Large...
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Apple Touts Strong Growth of Apple Pay Globally, though Again Fails to...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple said the number of Apple Pay users doubled globally while transactions tripled during the last quarter, but the company did not release many...
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Another Large Chinese City Supports QR Code-Based Transit Ticketing
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Another major Chinese city is accepting QR code-based payments for transit fare collection, with riders of the Shenzhen Metro now able to use WeChat Pay...
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Chinese Mega Wallets Continue to Expand QR Code-based Transit Ticketing,...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – China’s mega-mobile wallet providers have continued their rollouts of transit payments in China, with Tencent Holdings announcing Tuesday that two years...
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In-Depth: China Moving Forward On Face Payments of Transit Fares, Despite...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – More and more Chinese cities are trialing use of facial recognition technology for transit ticketing, a development that could enable users to avoid...
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Apple Pay Expands Support for Interoperable Closed-Loop Transit Cards in...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple on Wednesday expanded support for closed-loop transit payments across China, incorporating China’s T-Union interoperable transit cards in its Apple...
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