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Apple train
It's also struck a deal to enable Cubic's transit cards in Apple Wallet, which will support trains, subways and buses accessible through Cubic's transit app.
Cubic will add Apple support for the Ventra card in Chicago this year, and will also be part of the New York deployment. There's also potential for further collaboration, since Cubic supplies transit transaction technology to dozens of global cities, and has partnered with
Point and card
U.K. plastic card manufacturer Nitecrest has developed a biometrically-activated payment card, which accesses a fingerprint ID panel to make contactless payments above the current threshold of about $50.
With
The cards are in the early stages of deployment, though the company hopes to ramp up production as existing cards expire.
Got skills
Alexa has added "in-skill" purchasing, or ISP, in the U.K., Japan and Germany, opening a wider customer base for developers looking for monetization options.
Developers will be able to offer one-time purchases and subscriptions, reports
The Amazon store card skill went live in the U.S. in 2018, with early adopters including
DIY contactless
A developer has figured out a way to make a wearable out of a regular plastic credit card, though it doesn't sound very easy.
Working on behalf of the
This ring, once it's finished, is designed to perform similar to any other contactless payment ring.
From the Web
USA Today | Wed May 1, 2019 - Small businesses are adopting cashless options in droves, basically because customers are demanding it. Indeed, non-cash payments are increasing at an annual rate of about 6% a year, and in the last quarter of 2018, some $164 billion in cashless payments were transacted.
CoinDesk | Wed May 1, 2019 - Losses arising from cryptocurrency hacks and fraud may have reached as high as $1.2 billion in the first quarter of the year. The total figure includes over $356 million lost from exchanges (including QuadrigaCX’s $195 million) and over $850 million alleged to have been lost from the Bitfinex exchange.
Yahoo Finance | Thu May 2, 2019 - Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that a payment scheme in the Middle East and a universal bank in Iceland have chosen Fiserv technology to streamline anti-money laundering (AML) processes and effectively manage fraud risk.
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