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ST acquires AMS NFC related business PayPal and Visa push NFC payments

2019-11-19

● 26 morning, in the Metro Line 3 of the Nanjing Railway Station, Nanjing Metro held a national transport card interoperability ceremony. This means that Jiangsu 13 city traffic card to achieve interoperability. In the future, Nanjing people hold a card, can brush all over the country 41 cities.

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● 27 days, in the annual Microsoft Xbox One developer open day, Shanghai turned over beans Network Technology Co., Ltd. to bring its exclusive development of the domestic initiative Toys to life "infinite fantasy" heavy debut, "infinite fantasy" through the NFC (Near field wireless communication) technology, the game and the toy hand to do a combination of breaking the boundaries of virtual and reality for the players to bring a new three-dimensional gaming experience, and create a new game pay mode.


This week, in order to be able to provide "digital wallet" on the iPhone, several large banks in Australia intend to unite, as a whole with the technology giant Apple to negotiate, this may lead them to boycott Apple Pay.


● Recently, from the Beijing Municipal Transportation Card Company learned that in June, the daily mobile card recharge number has more than 20,000 pen, the chain in January this year, an increase of 152.4%. "Beijing municipal transport card" micro-signal last year on the line, with WeChat client can provide NFC mobile phone recharge, fast coupon purchase, transaction inquiries, online customer service and other online one-stop service.


According to the latest news from foreign media, Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) is preparing to launch a pilot project with MasterCard to implement MasterCard's non-contact credit and debit cards for land and rail payments such as trains and buses.


● Recently, according to foreign media survey shows that more than half (54%) of the Irish cardholders in the use of debit and credit card for shopping services, are accustomed to using non-contact payment for payment. The survey results came from the payment technology provider BOI Payment Acceptance (BOIPA), with an average consumption of 11.33 euros using non-contact payments.


A European McDonald's is experimenting with RFID solutions designed to provide real-time temperature and location data for temperature-sensitive items such as fresh food, drugs, etc., from the consumer end to the consumer side. The system is supplied by the Norwegian company TAG sensor with a built-in NFC HF or EPC Gen2 UHF passive RFID chip, a temperature sensor, clock, antenna and a printed battery.