Apple Pay goes live in Belgium
Apple on Wed launched its mobile payments service Apple Pay inward Belgium. Customers inward this province tin forcefulness out at in ane lawsuit add together their MasterCard or Maestro debit or credit cards to the Wallet app on their device inward club to role it to pay for goods too services inward stores, online too inward apps via an iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac.
Belgium’s largest banking concern BNP Paribas is Apple’s exclusive partner at launch. Other banks inward the province are said to covert Apple Pay inward the coming weeks too months, according to the Belgian paper De Tijd which kickoff reported well-nigh the impending launch yesterday. Google’s ain mobile payment services launched inward Kingdom of Belgium well-nigh a yr too a one-half ago.
Belgium is already large on contactless payments. In Belgium, merchants too java shops back upward other forms of mobile payments, similar scanning a QR Code side past times side to the cash register to transfer the requested amount. Contactless payments via NFC-outfitted credit cards, however, demand PIN code verification (or Touch ID/Face ID) for sums inward a higher house 25 euros.
Apple’s mobile payments service is scheduled to expand to Germany inward the side past times side days, too come shortly to Saudi Arabia. Apple Pay uses NFC technology scientific discipline too tokenization to securely procedure transactions without sending whatever soul user details to the merchant.
Consult Apple’s back upward document for the listing of participating banks inward Europe or peruse the iOS Feature Availability webpage to larn where exactly Apple Pay is currently available.
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