Apple Pay is now available with the VIB Mastercards, bringing to card holders an easier, safer and more secure way to pay. Each Apple Pay transaction takes a few seconds and is done in just three simple steps. Beyond that, facial recognition (FaceID)…
Some social media users are complaining that they are unable to use contactless payment system Apple Pay to ring up a transaction using a Chase credit card. On Apple’s System Status page, it notes that Apple Pay is undergoing some maintenance at the moment…
The second-largest hardware chain in the U.S. has finally decided to support Apple Pay. For those who don’t know what Apple Pay is, it is the mobile payment service that allows an iPhone user to select a credit, debit, or prepaid card from the Wallet app and…
If you have a PayPal debit or credit card, starting today you can add them to your Apple Wallet app where they can be selected for use with the Apple Pay mobile payment service. There are two ways that you can accomplish this. Number one, you can open the iOS…
A few days ago we showed you some video ads that Apple has put together for a promo campaign it is running for Apple Pay, its mobile payment service. Apple does keep .15% of the value of a transaction that has been paid for with Apple Pay. That means if you…
Last month when Apple started promoting hashtags for Apple Pay on X, we wondered whether this was the start of a marketing campaign for the service. Apple has indeed started to promote Apple Pay using a tagline that was one of those seen with a hashtag on X:…
Apple Pay has arrived in Vietnam, enabling users to make contactless money transactions through an iPhone or Apple Watch. Vietnam is the third country in Southeast Asia to allow Apple Pay after Malaysia and Singapore. Several lenders such as MB Bank and…
Digital wallet Apple Pay will soon be available in Vietnam. At least one bank has announced that it will soon support Apple Pay services. Sources have told VnExpress that three other major banks will also launch Apple Pay by the end of this month. Users can…
After a years-long wait, Apple Pay today launched in South Korea, allowing those living in the country to use Apple’s payment system to make contactless payments using the iPhone or Apple Watch. Apple has been working to bring Apple Pay to South Korea since…
Apple Pay is the company’s mobile payment platform. It’s a brilliant money-making scheme because Apple receives a cut of .15% of the value of each transaction that uses the feature (15 cents for each $100 purchase). With more than a million retail stores, gas…
JCPenney has finally released an official statement. This offers a technical explanation for the retailer’s decision to “suspend all contactless payment options until a later date.” While that suggests there’s a good chance Apple Pay support will be…
Google’s proprietary digital wallet service has done a pretty good job of keeping up with Apple Pay over the last year or so in terms of both US availability and international expansions, frequently spreading its wings to new banks, as well as major retailers…
Nuwemaru Street in Yeon-dong, Jeju City, was known as Baojian street until it was renamed in April. The street had been called Baojian from 2011 when the Chinese pharmaceutical company of the same name sent 12,000 employees to the southern tourist island as a…
Wirecard, the global innovation leader in digital financial technology, has deepened its partnership with Singtel’s Dash to support the Dash mobile wallet’s Visa Virtual Account on Apple Pay. From now on, Dash’s customers can make payments using Apple Pay at…
M&Ms World Shanghai reopened yesterday in Shanghai Shimao International Plaza. The newly remodeled 1600sqm interactive store, which offers an immersive, personalised experience with the M&M brand to residents and tourists, remains the only one based in Asia.…
Affirm, a startup that offers instant loans for online purchases, is expanding its financing services to brick-and-mortar retail. Shoppers can use Affirm InStore in physical locations, secure credit approval and pay for their purchase in fixed monthly…