VISA Japan has been busy this year marketing VISA Touch contactless cards with the SMBC group, leveraging the SMBC-GMO-VISA co-venture stera payment platform that launched in 2020. We have already […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - NFC - Transit
Opal digital transit card trial for Apple Pay and Samsung Pay (obsolete)
Notice: The Opal Digital Card project was cancelled in 2022. This post is obsolete for reference only. NSW announced a public beta test for Opal digital card in October and […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV - FeliCa - NFC
VISA Japan finally signs on with Apple Pay (Updated)
UPDATE 5/11/21Visa JP finally officially joined Apple Pay Japanese credit card otaku tweeted late last night that the Apple Pay Wallet animation started displaying VISA, which it never did until […]
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VISA Touch Transit Boutiques
VISA Japan announced VISA Touch support on Kyoto Tango Railway, most media outlets simply ran edited versions of the VISA Japan press release. The infrastructure uses a slightly modified stera […]
Apple - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - iPhone - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Transit
Dear Jane, we fucked up, sincerely MTA
The piecemeal MTA OMNY rollout is a lesson how not to do a transition from old system to new system. A case where poor design, poor management choices and unanticipated […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Transit
Blame the Apple Pay Ventra delay on open loop
Washington DC SmarTrip and Greater Los Angeles TAP transit cards both launched on Apple Pay the first week of September within days of each other. They upstaged Apple Pay Ventra […]