QR Codes has gotten a lot of hype in Japan, partly because merchants want to capture Chinese tourist money with AliPay and WeChat Pay, but also because the lower cost […]
Suica Tops Contactless Use in Tokyo Area
Another market survey, another few data points. MoneyZine writers Hideyuki Kato and Isamu Saito report some interesting results of 2 different cashless use surveys. As I reported a year ago, […]
EMV Express Transit Missing in iOS 12.4 Beta 1
Developers who installed iOS 12.4 beta 1 after todays’s release are reporting that the EMV Express Transit feature that just went live in iOS 12.3, is missing from iOS 12.4 […]
Apple Pay Suica on Apple Watch: First Impressions
Now that iOS 12.3 is out with great Apple Pay Suica performance and no more bugs, I have a new side project: Apple Pay Suica on Apple Watch. I moved […]
Jennifer Bailey Lifted the Apple Pay Skirt at TRANSACT…a little
Everybody knew that Jennifer Bailey was giving a keynote at the TRANSACT 2019 conference but finding any evidence of it was damn hard. Fortunately I came across a tweet from […]
WWDC19 iOS 13 Apple Pay Wish List
(Note: iOS 13 Core NFC documentation has been released with NFC tag support for: ISO 7816, ISO 15693, FeliCa, MIFARE and NDEF) Now that full 3rd party NFC access is […]