As usual, the ever growing number of inbound visitors to Japan are scratching heads at store checkout terminals asking to ‘pay with Apple Pay’ which doesn’t mean anything in the […]
Mobile Payments
Apple Pay drops the FeliCa requirement for Japanese issue payment cards
Spring is always the time for new product announcements in Japan which starts in March. Today, 2025-03-03 marks the day that Apple dropped the FeliCa requirement for payment cards resulting […]
Mobile Transit
Apple Pay Presto: open and closed loop done right
2024-07-16: Apple Pay Presto has launched Examine the Where you can ride transit using Apple Pay support page and you’ll notice that some listed entries have an ‘*Express Mode supported’ […]
Apple - Mobile Payments
Ignore NFC reader logos, advice for using Apple Pay in Japan
After the October 21 launch of Apple Pay WAON and Apple Pay nanaco e-Money cards, I updated my Apple Pay Japan chart. All I did was add WAON and nanaco […]
EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica
Are Chinese manufactured PAX NFC readers a security risk?
Probably not, but the FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology report from Krebs on Security has some thrilling bits: “FBI and MI5 are conducting an intensive investigation into PAX,” […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV - FeliCa - MIFARE - NFC
My Cousin Apple Pay
So the EU is going ahead with ‘open NFC’ antitrust charges against Apple. As posted back in August 2020, the whole open vs closed debate is not easy to define. […]