A two word summary for people in a hurry: COVID and PASMO. As everybody in Japan knows at this point, COVID drove cashless payment use more than any government program […]
Is there an App Clip Code for that?
iOS 14.3 is the big coming out party for App Clips now that App Clip Codes are in place. Apple posted App Clip Code HIG documentation, App Clip Code Generation […]
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: EMV closed loop transit dumb cards
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]
Huawei Pay Octopus: global NFC = custom eSE
Huawei Pay Octopus launched on December 9, the second digital Octopus 2020 launch after Apple Pay Octopus on June 2. The device list is interesting: Huawei Mate 40 Pro, P40, […]
SEIYU Stores finally add NFC payment support for Apple Pay Suica • PASMO
That didn’t take long. The announcement Walmart was selling majority control of SEIYU over to KKR and Rakuten was made November 16. And what was the first new management move? […]
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 […]