UnionPay International and Westpac jointly announced on June 12 in Sydney that Westpac would enable acceptance of UnionPay cards (card number starting with 62) by all its merchants in Australia within the next two years. To date, all the four major banks in Australia will be able to accept UnionPay cards on their ATMs and
UnionPay International announced it cooperated with Bank of Taiwan to enable the acceptance of UnionPay cards (card number starting with 62) on the Bank’s tuition and fees portal, allowing 45 local institutions of higher learning to accept tuition payment with UnionPay cards. The platform is the largest local tuition payment platform, where UnionPay becomes the
Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced that with its technological assistance, Kenya Commercial Bank is now able to offer acceptance of contactless cards based on MasterCard PayPass technology. The certification process was completed in less than a month making the bank one
MasterCard has announced that it is establishing contactless acceptance as standard by 2020 for merchants accepting MasterCard and Maestro in Europe, ensuring that, consumers will be able to pay with their contactless cards and NFC enabled devices at all point-of-sale terminals in Europe by 2020. “Europeans can already use contactless cards or NFC enabled mobile payments
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