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Analysis: Chase Pay Deal with MCX–All About Economics
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – While Chase Pay will offer merchants in the MCX consortium a potential consumer base of 94 million Chase payment card accounts and the promise of...
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With Alipay Deal, Samsung Seeks to Outflank Apple and Other Providers of...
By: Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive Insight – In an effort to deliver on the promise of a "true mobile wallet" and, of course, boost its flagging smartphone market share in China, Samsung has...
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Analysis: Apple Sees Familiar Pattern with Apple Pay Launch in Switzerland
By: Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive – Apple’s expansion into Switzerland late last week with its Apple Pay service followed a familiar pattern, as in many of the other new markets the tech giant...
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Apple Pay Chief: Ensuring Consistent User Experience Prompted Apple to Lock...
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive Insight – In case anyone is still wondering, Apple didn’t launch Apple Pay for the transaction fees it earns from banks, even if the iPhone maker...
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Analysis: Why QR Codes are Challenging NFC to Enable Mobile Payments
By: Dan Balaban and Chandra Lye NFC TIMES Exclusive – Despite the resurgence in demand for NFC technology with the launch of Apple Pay in 2014, followed by other NFC-enabled “Pays” wallets and the...
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Samsung Launches Support for QR Code-Based Payments in India, as It Seeks to...
By: Istvan Fekete NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Samsung has expanded its mobile payments service to India, where Samsung Pay will integrate a QR code-based mobile wallet service, along with...
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Despite Launch of Three Major ‘Pays’ in Taiwan, Visa Plans to Also Support QR...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Visa says it plans to support QR code-based mobile payments late next year in Taiwan–a market where all three major “Pays” wallets have launched...
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Major Networks Seek to Capture–and Protect–Transactions by Introducing Global...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Major payments networks, including Visa, Mastercard and China UnionPay, have released global specifications for QR code-based payments through their...
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Mastercard Announces Plans to Enable QR Code-Based Payments in Taiwan
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Mastercard has announced it will support QR code-based payments in Taiwan starting next year, working with the country’s largest credit card acquirer and...
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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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