Launch of Apple Pay in France before the end of the year, but bank by bank according to recent indiscretions

After months of questioning
on the planned arrival or not of the Apple Pay service in France, here we are
learns that the latter could besoon available in
Hexagon, it would only be onequestion of a few
month. Apple is still in negotiations with different banks
French, notablyabout the amount taken by these
latestwhen paying with Apple Pay:

Indeed, according to the newspaperLesEchos.fr, the company of
Cupertino would like to launch Apple Pay in France as quickly as possible, but would come up against
to the banks and their request regardingthe remuneration recovered during
payments made by Apple Pay.And while in Britain,
Apple recovers 5 cents from the average payment with Apple Pay (45 euros), which
represents more than half of the income usually collected by banks,
in France, the latter seem less tolerant.

In China,
the negotiations were also rather difficult. An agreement has
finally found between the country's banks and the apple firm, according to
which the latter would not touchnothing for 2 years, Then
would then be entitled to a third of the current commission taken by the
banks.

Still according to LesEchos.fr, in France, the Apple Pay service will gradually arrive
petit,bank by bank, depending on the agreements concluded or not
between the apple firm and each of them. It will still be necessary all the same
to wait forat least 6 monthsbefore seeing Apple Pay available in
France for the general public, Apple imposing in particular 3 to 5 months of period
"pilot".

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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.