The most surprising thing about the new OMNY system service start on May 31 isn’t that it’s EMV contactless credit/debit card only, or that Cubic is working with Apple to […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - Transit
iOS 13 Apple Card Wallet
Using the Apple Card flavored Suica UI and redesigned Wallet of iOS 12.2 these past few weeks has been weird but instructive. The UI still feels like it dropped into […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica
Dear Jennifer Bailey
Dear Jennifer, Congratulations on the success of Apple Pay in Japan! The success is all Suica of course, but it was a very smart move and Apple Pay has transformed […]
Apple Pay + Wallet - Mobile Payments
MerPay on Apple Pay
If you were hoping for a streamlined cashless payment roadmap for Japan, forget it. Things are just going to get more complex as various reward point ecosystems (Rakuten point, d-Point, […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments
Japan Cashless Map for 2019
Because of its long history pioneering many of the technologies used for contactless payments, Japan is one of the most interesting, complex and difficult markets to study and analyze cashless […]