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Wearable Paytech Provider MuchBetter Launches Contactless Payment Ring for Free in Italy

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In a disruptive move, the ring is available for free, provided customers load it with €100 through the MuchBetter digital wallet app to spend as and when they wish, challenging companies currently selling the same product for upwards of €100. Despite the growing popularity of contactless payment, Italy’s cash usage remains high.

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Worldpay Finds Contactless Payments Surpass Chip, Pin Card Purchases

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Worldpay, the payment technology company, announced Tuesday (Oct. 16) that for the first time, contactless payments have become more popular than chip and pin card purchases when paying in-store in the U.K. The change occurred in June, when 51 percent of in-store card transactions were contactless.

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Infineon Launches SECORA™ Pay Green – the World’s First Contactless Payment Card Technology Allowing for Up to 100% Reduction in Plastic Waste

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Conventional payment cards require embedding a separate copper wire antenna in the card with various material layers, including inlay foils. These layers and the copper wire antenna that spans the entire card make it almost impossible to easily recycle conventional contactless payment cards.

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Why Connected Consumers Crave Contactless Payments

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From barter, to cash, to eCommerce, and now, to contactless payments – even those enabled by voice command. The steady drumbeat of tech has brought purchasing from bills and coins to cards and contactless payments – done across all manner of devices and through pushes, taps, swipes and waves, at any time. percent; the 42.2

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Visa Uses NYC Mass Transit To Ignite Contactless Payments

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We are talking about consumer acceptance of contactless payments in the U.S. specifically, the use of such payments for mass transit in New York City. transit agency to implement contactless payments using Visa’s global transit framework. The ongoing push toward more contactless payments in the U.S.

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NMI’s Contactless Payments Tech Boosts UK Charity Donations

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NMI’s Senior VP of Marketing Ingrid Anusic said contactless payment systems open up new streams of revenue, especially for charities. Nicola Masters, director of The Grand Appeal, said that because contactless transactions overtook chip and PIN payments in the U.K., the collaboration made sense. “We

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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Although the wagons have begun to circle more publicly and more recently on Apple and its payments stance — given the very public lawsuit over in-app purchases — large-scale efforts to challenge Apple’s position on allowing anyone other than Apple access to the NFC chip haven’t gotten much media bandwidth. 23-25, 2020.

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