Apple’s mobile payment service is coming to Hong Kong’s popular Octopus contactless transit cards. Launching this fall, the system will let people tap their device on an NFC processor and be on their way, no need to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID whatsoever.
Apple’s payment service is now available in more than a dozen new European markets, backed by many large European banks, including online banks Monese, N26 and Revolut.
According to Apple’s employees who are testing the titanium card ahead of a planned summer launch, it’s packaged inside a plain white sleeve with an Apple logo on the front.
Following Apple Pay’s recent arrival in European countries Hungary and Luxembourg, as well as its launch on the New York City subway, the mobile payment service is now available to customers in The Netherlands, a 17 million people country, with Dutch bank ING.
Apple and public transit systems in the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA areas are now rolling out support for Hop Fastpass so customers can use the Wallet app to purchase fares and use the transit systems.
As promised, Apple Pay is now available in Hungary and Luxembourg, marking its 36th and 37th markets, respectively. The mobile payment system is now within spitting distance of Apple’s self-imposed goal of having it up and running in 40 markets by the end of this year.
Users in eight countries are now able to set up Apple Pay as their payment method for purchases tied to their Apple ID.
Apple Pay will soon be available to Monese cardholders in more than a dozen countries in Eastern Europe, including Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Soon your iPhone will be able to read specially-encoded NFC tags that will instantly start an Apple Pay transaction when tapped, without having to download or use any special app.
Apple’s mobile payments service should soon hit Hungary and Luxembourg after arriving in Iceland earlier in May.
The unexpected launch of Apple Pay in the 340,000 people Nordic nation came earlier today with initial support from the country’s two major financial institutions. The iPhone maker’s self-imposed goal calls for bringing Apple Pay to forty countries before year-end
Payments for the British Government’s Global Entry Service can now be approved through Apple Pay, with support for additional services to be rolled out at a later stage.