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Commonwealth Bank of Australia is adding support for Android Pay and NFC payments through Garmin smartwatches, but iPhone users will continue to hav
After a 10 month pilot, Google is ditching its Hands Free payments app, which let users leave their wallets and phones in their pockets and pay jus
Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide Building Society are the first banks to have lined u
Apple Pay is set to make its debut in China later this week, while rival platform LG Pay delays its lunch until later this year.
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ANZ has followed in the footsteps of compatriot NAB with the launch of a new mobile payment service for Android smartphones, ANZ Mobile Pay, as the country's biggest banks continue their boycott of iOS rival Apple Pay.
This article contains news on Bank of America and Wells Fargo, both of which are working to integrate Apple Pay into their ATMs.
Samsung Pay had an average of eight transactions per U.S. user within the first four weeks of its launch
Apple Pay is looking overseas in 2016.
Finextra: Google is expanding the reach of Android Pay, adding in-app payments in the US and promising international launches, beginning with Australia, for 2016.
The retailer unveiled Walmart Pay, a new mobile payments system that allows shoppers to pay for in-store purchases via Walmart's iOS and Android app.
MasterCard says American Express's deal to be the first to roll out Apple Pay outside the US and Britain is evidence of the lack of regulation of Amex compared to Visa and MasterCard, whose fees are capped.
Apple Pay will be switched on in Australia on Thursday, but only American Express card holders will be able to use it.
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Finextra: Apple Pay is coming to Canada and Australia later this year thanks to a tie-up with American Express.
Finextra: JPMorgan Chase has signed up retailer consortium MCX as a partner for Chase Pay, its new digital wallet leading the fight back against tech giants Apple, Google and Samsung in the increasingly crowded mobile money arena.
Finextra: Rumours are swirling that LG is preparing to take on Apple, Google and Samsung in the mobile payments arena after it emerged that the South Korean electronics giant has filed trademarks for 'GPay'.
Finextra: Apple Pay will soon be accepted at Starbucks coffee stores, with support from fast food chains KFC and Chilis in the wings.
Finextra: Over $30 million has been spent using Samsung Pay in the first month since its launch in South Korea.
Finextra: Google has begun rolling out Android Pay in the US, enabling users to make instore mobile NFC payments at more than a million locations across the country.
Australia's largest bank is fending off the arrival of the world's biggest technology company in the hotly contested area of payments.
Finextra: Samsung will introduce its mobile payments service in South Korea later this month, with Visa, MasterCard and several major banks onboard for a US launch in September.
Finextra: BlackBerry has teamed up with PayPal for a trial that lets BBM users in Canada send and receive money through the messaging service.
Finextra: In another blow to retailer-led mobile payments consortium MCX, US drugstore chain Rite Aid is activating support for rival products from Google and Apple across the company's 4600 outlets nationwide.
Finextra: Samsung has begun testing its mobile payments service with a small group of customers in South Korea ahead of an expected full-scale launch next month.
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CBA adds support for Andriod Pay & Garmin NFC payments. iPhone stickers to remain as the access to Apple NFC is barred and that case was lost by Westpac, NAB and other requesting the information.