Apple Pay is coming to new countries, little steps

For now,Appel Pay
is only available in the United States andUnited Kingdomsince this
summer. But
Tim Cook announcedthe upcoming deployment of the payment solution by
iPhone (or
par Apple Watch) in Canada and Australia, then later in 2016, in Hong
Kong, Singapore and Spain:

No details regarding France, also, for the moment,
the solution only works with American Express payment cards and
Visa, given thatMasterCard has still not announcedof
partnership with Apple.

In any case, it seems that from next November, the
Canadian American Express users will be able to benefit from the system of
contactless paymentwith iPhone or Apple Watch, followed, from the start
2016, from Australia and the countries listed above.

In Europe, apart from Spain,no other country would still be
in the plans of the apple firm.

Last spring,a rumor gave
Belgiumasnext deployment area of
service. But since then, nothing has been announced on this subject.

At the same time, Visa also unveiled the implementationof a
Token payment system, which is the mechanism used for Apple Pay.
We know that Visa cards are nowcompatible with the system
Apple Pay in the UK. Blocking the development of the system in
the rest of Europe does not seem, a priori, due to an incompatibility with the
Visa cards.

Among competitors, Samsung has, this summer,revealed
its development plansof its Samsung Pay payment solution and
would target Europevery soon. Note that the solution
Samsung Pay has the advantage, compared to Apple Pay, offunction
with all contactless payment terminals already in place.

If Samsung manages to implement Samsung Pay in Europe before Apple Pay, this
could have asignificant influence on
users.

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