Samsung Pay has gone live in Canada – but only for a subset of customers using certain Visa cards from CIBC Bank.
A Samsung customer service representative revealed the expansion plans in a reply to an Oct. 26 customer inquiry in Samsung Pay’s built-in app. That was the day after Samsung Pay announced its launch in Malaysia, Thailand and Russia.
“These [Samsung Pay] services will be made available from the first week of November, 2016 in Canada. And, initially the service will be launched with CIBC Visa cards,” the company said in its reply.
An employee demonstrates Samsung Electronics Co.'s Samsung Pay application on a Galaxy Note 7 smartphone with stylus during a media event in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016. Samsung's large-screen Galaxy Note 7 smartphone can be unlocked with an iris-scanning camera. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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